Wilde remains largely positive through it all, an attitude which lends itself to his own quotation ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’.

A subtly impactful short film which comes highly recommended.

This film immediately struck me as feminist by design, with, if I may say, undertones of misandry.

Simon Liu’s ironically titled, Happy Valley, is a film about his native Hong Kong and its attitude of perseverance in the face of adversity.

In Basir Mahmood’s film, we are given a meta-cinematic approach to the subject of domestic violence.

Watching the introduction to Mateo Vega’s There Is A Ghost Of Me was like revisiting German Expressionist filmmaking, albeit on acid.

I took the message of the film to be that, naturally, domestic abuse needs to be rid of its anonymity.

The IFFR has become one of the largest audience and industry-driven film festivals in the world, and is always at the cutting edge in terms of its output.