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Laurynas Bareisa on relationship dynamics in award-winning drama Drowning Dry

As the International Day of Education approaches we highlight films featuring inspirational teachers

Dale Dickey gives this revenge thriller plenty of extra kick as a gran who isn't going to take abuse lying down. When hard-nosed Ann Hunter (Dickey) and her frail husband Chip (Greg Ellwand) are targeted by a legal scam they find themselves locked in a care home under the instruction of a corrupt "guardian" (Bruce Ramsay). Soon Ann is calling on friends from the past and her own steely resolve to exact vengeance, while her granddaughter Emma (Romaine Denis) also starts to dig herself in deep in order to help her gran. Karl R Hearne takes a serious subject and spins it into a taut thriller that makes the most of Dickey's talents. Read what Karl R Hearne told us about the importance of having an older female character in the central role and our chat with Dale Dickey, who said: “You don't find those kinds of roles for women my age that are strong and forceful. It is a very interesting script."

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Danielle Macdonald in Patti Cake$ - straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, aka Killa P, aka Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.

Matthew Ranking on world-building and catharsis in Universal Language

Highlights from the 35th edition including a silent movie gem

Looking ahead to the festival... as it looks towards its own future