A depressed kennel owner falls in love with a phone technician in Quebecois comedy Peak Everything, the rare fest film with crossover appeal.
Peak Everything. Love and Climate Change.

Exploring the Outer Edge of Film
A depressed kennel owner falls in love with a phone technician in Quebecois comedy Peak Everything, the rare fest film with crossover appeal.
With echoes of Wake in Fright and Carrie, Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done is a provocative, satisfying body horror that lingers long in the memory.
Multiple layers of ambiguity characterise Louise Hémon’s debut feature, a fascinating turn-of-the-century tale about the snowy road to enlightenment.
Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s Plastic Guns doubles down on the provocations of Bloody Oranges in an off-kilter, hilarious and deeply nasty farce.
There is beauty and meaning littered throughout the repetitive actions of Jonás Trueba’s endlessly playful Directors’ Fortnight romcom The Other Way Around.
A group of villagers stage a series of increasingly bizarre protests against the development of a lithium mine in the unengaging Savanna and the Mountain.
Matthew Rankin’s culture-bending comedy fable throws up all kinds of intellectual questions, but rarely engages on a deeper, emotional level.
Disturbing and entertaining in equal measure, Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña’s wildly inventive metafiction The Hyperboreans is a standout work from Cannes.
Hong Sangsoo returns with In Our Day, a delightful tale that reminds us that contentment can be found in a drink of soju or a puff on a cigarette.
A Song Sung Blue has every shade of blue you can hope for. But perhaps gorgeous aesthetics can only get you so far. Playing at Directors’ Fortnight.