In Pereda’s Kafkaesque thriller of bureaucracy, a mine-worker Lázaro becomes increasingly mired by respiratory issues after he finds a corpse on the side of the road. Rather than build a central narrative around the murder mystery, however, Pereda moves off-centre to explore how systemic violence seeps into the inner lives of those on the periphery.

This double bill brings together two films made around Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s unfinished project Until Victory, tracing its journey from the Palestinian resistance to American university campuses and, later, Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville’s critical return to the material. 

The latest film from German filmmaker Angela Schanelec is a spellbinding relationship drama that eschews conventional melodrama in favour of a formally audacious and elliptical approach to love, gender and trauma.