Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn are fantastic in this unsettling social-realist thriller.

Neglected pensioner Elsie finds an unexpected ally in her younger neighbour Colleen. Over time, Elsie gains a friend, and the troubled Colleen finds a fresh purpose in life as she shops, cleans and cares for her. It brings brighter days for both of them, until Elsie’s son starts to resent the way Colleen has occupied his mother’s life. Simmering tensions bring shocking consequences in a gripping human story straight from the heart of broken Britain.

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Last Swim follows Ziba (Deba Hekmat) as she holds her breath on A-level results day. Desperate to study astrophysics at university, she’s equally determined to make the first day of her adult life a day to remember. But when her tight-knit group of friends are joined in a cross-London all-day party by newcomer Malcolm (Denzel Baidoo), she must reckon with a darker truth that none of her friends have been brought into.

Last Swim’s plot has plenty of high-stakes elements, but it never strays into melodrama, aided by an impressive young cast – many of them new faces – who bring improvisational and lived-in quality to the performances. At the centre of this group is the wonderful Deba Hekmat, in a performance that makes her one to watch. As in her terrific supporting role as tearaway best friend in Luna Carmoon’s Hoard, Hekmat conveys a world of grand and petty frustrations in a single look. Giving specificity to Ziba’s Iranian-British roots (as well as crafting a genuine friendship group to surround her), first-time director Sasha Nathwani captures a day that will live on in nostalgia; at once quotidian and human-sized, but tinged with emotions that scream with galactic significance for those on the edge of adulthood.

Late summer 1993. After stealing a stash of money and drugs, aging raver David flees a forest party and crashes his car deep in the woods. Trapped in the wreckage, injured and helpless, he hangs suspended between life and death. When a mysterious poacher discovers him, no rescue comes - only a watchful, unsettling presence that seems intent on letting nature finish the job. As the hours pass by, a tense battle of wills, and wits, unfolds - where survival hinges on outlasting both the wilderness and the predator at its edge.

A gripping thriller set against the backdrop of the British rave scene, Game features Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods in his first leading role, and was originated through a conversation between co-star Marc Bessant and Geoff Barrow of Portishead.