Based on Olaf Stapledon’s 1930 science fiction novel of the same name, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s posthumous directorial debut is anything but a traditional film adaptation. Instead, the trinity of ethereal score, overpowering images of surreal war memorials and Tilda Swinton’s ominous narration of the book’s final chapters forms an abstract piece of future history. The shape

Nikitas Kontaxis (Vangelis Mourikis) is a reclusive farmer, living and working in a forest in Northern Greece. Not long after a mudslide threatens his home, a young man on a motorcycle turns up at Nikitas’s doorstep, as if he, too, was washed up with the heavy rainfall. Revealing himself to be Nikitas’s son, John Doukas