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War photographers drive to a besieged Washington in a near-future America; Alex Garland.

A Navy SEAL platoon in Ramadi in 2006, reconstructed in real time from memory; Garland and Ray Mendoza.

A surgeon must kill one of his family or a boy's curse takes them all; Lanthimos' Greek tragedy.

Toni Collette, a miniature-maker, and a grief that turns into something worse; A24's horror peak.

Ethan Hawke as a pastor losing his faith over climate change; Schrader's Bresson film.

A grief-stricken American at a Swedish midsummer festival where everything happens in daylight.

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson go mad on a rock in black-and-white 1.19:1; Eggers' seagulls.

A woman remembers a Turkish holiday with her young father through camcorder footage; Charlotte Wells' debut.