Border

Tina works at a ferry terminal and detects shame, fear and rage on travellers by breathing. She has always been told she has a chromosomal defect.

Ali Abbasi adapts a John Ajvide Lindqvist story, and the film's method is to let you work out what Tina is at roughly the pace she does, then keep going into territory that is far stranger and far more upsetting than the reveal.

Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff are under heavy prosthetics and give two of the best performances in recent European cinema through them.

It is truly about otherness, and it refuses to make the outsiders good, which is the thing that separates it from every comparable film.

There is a scene involving what is in a case that is one of the hardest turns in recent horror.

Won Un Certain Regard at Cannes.