Silent Souls

Full of striking visual images and fragmentary half-truths - a dour meditation on love and death that arrests and alienates in equal measure.

The performances are pitch perfect. The culture is fascinating. See it. See it. See it.

Aleksei Fedorchenko's crisp, beautiful film ponders the oddness and necessity of the folk rites in which we all seek solace.

It is a film worth revisiting, like a dream after waking, but an hour later you may not remember you ever had the dream at all.