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With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs

From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital

Though we might have seen a more politically radical film, Ali Cherri’s dreamy debut has echoes of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Filmmaker Luis De Filippis makes her debut with this nuanced look at identity and togetherness, set over the span of a holiday family

As Mark Jenkin's folk horror Enys Men arrives in UK cinemas, Steph Green recommends further viewing in this eerie pocket of cinema

Writer-director Kyle Edward Ball's microbudget debut is a terrifying exploration of the intersection between nostalgia and nightmares

Though this three-hour autobiography can be irritating, it's also a visual marvel with a surprising amount of proper entertainment

As the latest edition of the festival returns to the capital, Ella Kemp highlights some of this year's most essential features

A woman takes over as breadwinner in Satyajit Ray's feminist exploration of family power structures, now back in cinemas

As the latest take on Persuasion comes to Netflix, Steph Green highlights some of the author's finest screen adaptations to date

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