★★★★★
“A scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight”
– Nick Howells, The London Standard
Between drinking sessions and one-night stands, washed-up tennis pro Tom (Sam Riley) clings to a job coaching holidaymakers at a hotel in Fuerteventura. When an English couple (Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing) arrive, their presence sets off a chain of events that leads to a mysterious disappearance.
Islands is a contemporary, intelligent thriller with noirish undertones and stylistic echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, stunningly shot against the sun-drenched volcanic landscapes of the Canary Islands.
Credits
Germany 2025
122min
Certificate TBC
DCP available with subtitles including descriptions of non-dialogue audio (DS)
English and Spanish with English subtitles
Dir Jan-Ole Gerster
With Sam Riley, Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing
Previews
August
15 to 17 August
Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK premiere)
24 August
Chichester Film Festival
September
11 September
Garden Cinema (Q&A with director Jan-Ole Gerster)
Release screenings
September
From 12 September
ArtHouse Crouch End, London
BFI Southbank, London
Broadway, Nottingham
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Garden Cinema, London
King Street Cinema, Ipswich
Lumiere Romford
Showroom Workstation, Sheffield
The Castle Cinema
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Watershed, Bristol
19 September
Glasgow Film Theatre
Palace Broadstairs
The Dukes, Lancaster
Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
26 September
Plymouth Arts Centre
Malvern Theatre
27 September
Worcester Film Festival, Odeon Worcester
29 September
MAC Birmingham
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
October
3 October
New Park Chichester
4 October
Totnes Cinema
17 October
Ilkley Cinema
27 October
Buxton Film
30 October
BEAM Hertford
November
11 November
Corn Exchange Wallingford