Storm clouds darken fields of rapeseed and livestock shrink from torchlight in Dea Kulumbegashvili’s unblinking second feature, named after the cruelest month. Resolutely formalist in its depiction of moral courage, April reckons with male violence and salvific endings in the season of new life.

Love and obsession are two sides of the same coin in this daring thriller from The Bear writer-producer Alex Russell, featuring rising stars Archie Madekwe and Théodore Pellerin. In a glitzy LA ruled by social currency, Lurker luxuriates in the suspense and the dark irony of celebrity worship.