Adapted from celebrated French writer Annie Ernaux’s short, stark memoir, Audrey Diwan’s devastating second feature Happening follows a young woman in ’60s France as she tries to terminate a pregnancy.

Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Kelly Macdonald lead John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat, about the stranger-than-fiction story of the bizarre and critical military deception that arguably helped the Allies liberate wartime Sicily.

From visionary director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) comes The Northman, an action-filled epic, filmed in Northern Ireland, that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder. 

Writer/director Kate Dolan’s feature debut, assured in its low-key depiction of dysfunctional family life, explores mental illness and the myth of the changeling in this genre-bending psychological drama. 

Young Plato is a funny, poignant and inspiring documentary set in post-conflict Belfast’s Ardoyne, from filmmakers Neasa Ní Chianáin (School Life) and Declan McGrath.