The Other Lamb

The blind faith of a teenager starts to crumble in this psychological thriller and visual masterpiece with echoes of David Koresh as well as Margaret Atwood’s dystopian science fiction.

Life with The Shepherd (Michel Huisman) and his women’s collective in the woods is the only life young Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has ever known. Her entire existence as his most loyal subject is rocked, however, when she finds out what really happens with the elderly women in the sect. The English-language debut of the critically acclaimed Malgorzata Szumowska is a visionary and visually striking psychological thriller, whose parallels to the increasingly constrained reality of women in her native Poland are hard to ignore. The Other Lamb has much in store for those brave enough to find out what’s behind the curtain of this religious sect.

• Annie Karlsson