OUT 24 SEPTEMBER

On the eve of an election debate, government minister Josh Joseph (David Smith) returns home to visit Maddy (Eliza Marsland), a friend he hasn’t seen for 17 years. Unfolding via a series of long takes as the pair walk and talk through nature, with birds singing and a stream burbling nearby, Erik Knudsen’s intriguing drama has a hint of Linklater’s Before trilogy and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree as it observes its protagonist working through his moral and spiritual crisis. True Calling swings big and doesn’t quite hit, but remains quietly riveting throughout. Jamie Graham