Brian McOmber

Premiering at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, Anurag Kashyap’s cynical thriller delves into the dark crevices of the human mind to drive home his point about people’s inherent depravity. Nikos Andritsakis’ excellent camerawork adds a gritty dimension to the dysfunctional characters.

A stunning debut by dancer and choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall, Ma takes the Virgin Mary and radically re-imagines her in a contemporary and dialog-free story of archetypal relationships and movement through an American landscape of desert, motels and Las Vegas. Unconventional and risk-taking.