Image from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/17/underland-robert-macfarlane-vegas-storm-drains-yucatan-caves-goatchurch-cavern

Image from IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14883538/mediaviewer/rm2752230658/?ref_=tt_ov_i ‘Arco' is an anime-style animation set in the near-future, which tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a young girl cut adrift from her family and a mystical, time-travelling friend. The film brings together two children’s parallel journeys into adolescence: one, Iris, from the near-future and the other, Arco, from a more distant one. Iris is a pre-teen school girl livin

Akinola Davies’s lauded hit ’My Father’s Shadow’ is a both a universal story of the challenges of fatherhood and a time-portal into 1990s Nigeria. It follows two wide-eyed, young brothers (played by real-life brothers Chibuike Marvellous and Godwin Egbo) on an apparently spontaneous day out in Lagos with their enigmatic dad, Folarin (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù). The boys (Remi and Akin) accompany their father around the bustling capital as he attempts to collect his long-overdue wages fr

The documentary follows Batbold (18) and Tsagana (22) on their 150-day quest to herd 1,000 wild horses across the Mongolian steppe during a particularly severe ‘iron winter’. It’s a bitter-sweet story of two young men falling in love with an ancient tradition whilst coming to terms with its fragility in the face of globalisation. More broadly, it’s about the isolation of rural communities and their fight for relevance in increasingly city-dwelling world. Indeed, one of their