The Rose of Nevada (TBC)

Set in a Cornish fishing village, this time travel ghost story explores the intimate presence of death and the claustrophobia of family and community.

The eponymous fishing boat that disappeared, has magically turned up at the rundown harbour. Two men — drunk named Liam (Callum Turner) and family man Nick (George Mackay) — unaware of the vessel’s past, are hired by the families of the deceased crew to go out once more. Upon their return, they find themselves sent into the past, having assumed the roles of the two men who were lost before.

Have they somehow cosmically contrived a happier future for the two men than the one that actually happened? Or was it their reality that was in fact unreal: a premonition of disaster and gloom from 30 years ago?

As you’d expect from Mark Jenkin (Bait), Rose of Nevada is at once visually harsh and remarkably beautiful in its attention to detail and texture. It is an elusive and complex film, with a strangeness and enigma present from the beginning; the film appears to be saying that there is something unknowable here even without the time slip.