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Moored on the banks of the Seine in the heart of Paris, the Adamant is a floating care centre that welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders. Using a variety of different approaches, they offer care that grounds participants in time and space, helping to keep spirits high on the path to recovery. The team that runs it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best they can. The film invites us to board to meet the patients and caregivers who inhabit the Adamant in their day-to-day lives.

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Estibaliz Urresola’s delicate debut film is a tender, heartfelt drama that follows an eight-year-old trans girl during an indelible summer holiday of self-discovery.

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A resonant adaptation of David Chariandy’s 2017 novel – with shades of Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight – Brother ably wrestles with themes of memory, grief and regret. A film which never shirks the stultifying and deadly impact of racism, whilst nevertheless celebrating the joy and love that strengthen resistance.

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Forest fires trap a group of friends in their holiday home on the Baltic Sea, where romance and jealousies soon take hold.

Christian Petzold’s Silver Bear winner unfolds like a modern-day fable, imbued with a sense of transcendent wonder not unfamiliar from his previous work.

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Penélope Cruz stars in this gorgeous, involving melodrama which makes imaginative use of director Emanuele Crialese’s own biography.

L'Immensità, which premiered in competition at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is a vibrant tale of self-discovery that explores gender identity, mental health and turbulent relationships.

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ASHES OF TIME REDUX

Wong Kar-Wai’s martial arts epic was revisited into a Redux version, which premiered at Cannes in 2008 with new opening titles, soundtrack and colour-scheme.

A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.

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Fatima-Zahra and her devoted but defiant son Selim are living on the poverty line, hustling for survival. Their close – albeit warped – bond is tested when Selim discovers a painful truth about his past, setting the duo on a path they can’t turn back from. An acutely observed domestic tale of love, identity and belonging, this exceptional film interrogates the strictures of Moroccan society on the disenfranchised.

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Nobel Laureate and internationally acclaimed writer Annie Ernaux transforms her home movies into a fascinating exploration of self and family life.

The Super 8 Years is a record of lives lived between 1972 and 1981. Annie Ernaux, working with her son David, has drawn together footage that was mostly shot by her ex-husband (and David’s father) Philippe. It’s a detailed account of domestic family life, at home and abroad, while also recording the period when Ernaux first became a published…