2022 year. Eighteen-year-old Dima from Donetsk is left alone after his father's funeral. He hasn't seen his mother since childhood and has long accepted the emptiness in his family. He is far from sports and doesn't understand how the world around is organized, until he learns the terrible truth: among the civilians captured in the besieged Mariupol, there might be his mother. In search of a chance to find her, Dima signs up as a volunteer in a storm detachment and goes there where every day is a challenge. But the closer he gets to the ruined city, the harder it is to understand if he will be able to meet his mother before he loses himself.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...