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Directors:  Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák In Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák new documentary Caught in the Net, you can only admire the bravery of actors Sabina Dlouhá, Anežká Pithartová and Terez Těžká who after answering a cast call pose as 12-year-old girls and go online to lure potential sex offenders through online chat, video calls and eventually 21 face-to- face meetings. With three months of preparation, and profiles online for just 10 days, over 2500 men got in touch and Caught in the Net is the important but horrifying result of their work. Based in the Czech Republic, documentary…

Writer and Director: David Beton Billed as an intense, high octane thriller, Confession is built on a simple narrative premise. A gunman – wounded but still dangerous – bursts into a Boston church. The priest is the only person in the building. With the action played out in real time, the gunman urges that he has a confession to make. He is here not for vengeance, but absolution. Written and directed by David Beton, this is a one-location drama. The film is packed into an 80-minute time frame, and plays with the audience’s preconceptions as the story takes a number…

Writers: Roseanne Liang and Max Landis Director: Roseanne Liang In the closing credits of Shadow in the Cloud director Roseanne Liang offers archive footage of women pilots in the Allied Air Forces. Given the film’s plucky heroine, should the film be read as a tribute to all the women who overcame sexism to play vital military roles in World War II? That wouldn’t make much sense of the film’s particularly nasty gremlin. This is no Stephen Spielberg cute mischief-maker, but a repellent creature, a large and steel-clawed, hairless rat with a distorted bat’s face and hideous fangs. Liang and fellow writer…