Two middle-aged sisters in a Finnish village promise to brew beer for a wedding but drink their entire batch. In a hilarious race against time, they struggle with hangovers while trying to make more beer and save their reputations.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...