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With news on the horizon of cinemas reopening and a partial return to normality, it will be interesting to see how much moviewatching habits will have changed.

Until then, we’re stuck with the small screen. That shouldn’t be so much of an issue for fans of Downton Abbey (Sky/Now TV), most of whom will have seen last year’s lavish film adaptation. Meringue-light, fit-forpurpose and laced with withering Maggie Smith zingers, this is actually a perfect entry point for newcomers to the big-house franchise.

Curzon Home Cinema will be showing exclusive features from the Edinburgh International Film Festival over the coming days. Among them is Clemency, the winner of this year’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize. It tells of a death row warden played by Alfre Woodard, who is struggling under the weight of her job (which, you’d imagine, is no surprise).

Also available will be Rebuilding Paradise, a new documentary from director Ron Howard about the devastation brought to a Californian community after their town was destroyed by the deadliest US wildfire in a century. Another documentary airing will be Anthropocene: The

Human Epoch, which takes a global perspective on the impact mankind is having on this planet, and Young Ahmed, a Belgian radicalisation drama from the always compelling Dardenne brothers.

A bit of Nordic noir for you, this time from Iceland. A White, White Day (BFI Player) places an obsessive cop (Icelandic powerhouse and Cannes winner Ingvar Sigurdsson) in a police procedural against the singular backdrop of that North Atlantic island. Hlynur Palmason’s latest film has the look of being an off-kilter sensory chiller.

Thrills of a more hi-octane (and reportedly schlocky) nature are to be found in The Courier (Netflix), as Olga Kurylenko’s London motorcyclist runs into a spot of bother when she is charged with an explosive package. Somehow, Gary Oldman was convinced to co-star.

Japan’s role as a curiosity shop for Western sensibilities continues with Family Romance (BFI Player). In it, Werner Herzog investigates the weird world of rent-a-family businesses, who can be employed to fill in for underperforming relatives. Don’t say you’re not tempted.