Hyde Park Picture House

The Leeds Film Festival is running at the moment. It's a chance to take a lucky dip into an astonishingly diverse programme. I saw the description below and wasn't able to resist. I'm glad I didn't. Border was an extraordinary cinematic experience. It's a Swedish language film so I suspect it won't get the general release it deserves. All I can say is look out for it and if you get a chance, go grab the opportunity to see it at a cinema. It's both wondrous and shocking. I'd also suggest not finding out too much more than what you find here. Let its revelations surprise you.

Border, 2018, directed by Ali Abbasi

A delicious, head-spinning meld of body horror, Nordic noir, myth and romance, Border is an almighty ‘WTF?’ of a film that packs emotion and philosophical smarts. Tina is a ferry terminal border guard in Sweden, blessed with a keen sense of smell and an unusual physique. She is out of step with the mainstream world, thrives on her unusual talent for ‘smelling’ emotions. A similarly strange lone traveller arrives at the border one day - with a gleam in their eye and a box full of worms. Tina is compelled towards them as if by some innate animal instinct.