Weekly reviews of new cinema releases in the UK.

Lee Mi-Mi’s intoxicating film, which sits in a rich cinematic tradition of all-girls’ schools, with their homoerotic tensions, as social microcosms, earns a rare screening this week

Artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri builds a beguiling tension between the real and symbolic in the story of Maher, a bricklayer working on the Merowe dam.

D. Smith’s documentary about four Black trans sex workers living in New York and Atlanta allows them to speak frankly about their lives, making space for the darkness as well as the light.

Neang Kavich’s haunting, elegiac tribute to the White Building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, captures snatches of the lives lived in this monument to harmony between urban dwellers and the arts.