Casa Verdi, a rambling mansion in the city of Milan that once belonged to the composer Guiseppe Verdi, but is now a home for retired musicians, sits at the centre of Daniel Schmid's tender exploration of aging and the timeless capacity of music to inspire.

Charlotte Zhang's mesmerising debut feature effortlessly merges forms and formats to craft a paranoid spiral into a city on the brink, as Los Angeles is encircled by militarized policing, meat shortages and cockroach infestations on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.

A tapestry of intimate dialogue where voices float free of their sources and images drift away from illustrations. Correspondences is cinema as epistolary form built from letters exchanged between poets Jorge de Sena and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.