★★★★★
“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
September
From 12 September
BFI Southbank, London
Cine Lumiere
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Garden Cinema, London
Showroom Workstation, Sheffield
From 19 September
HOME, Manchester
Olympic Studios, Barnes
27 September
Worcester Film Festival, Odeon Worcester
October
3 October
Alnwick Playhouse
Brewery Arts Centre Kendal
New Park Chichester
Rheged, Penrith
The Parade Cinema, Marlborough
4 October
Totnes Cinema
10 October
Exeter Phoenix
Hippodrome Bo’ness
Stoke on Trent Film Theatre
Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford
14 October
Abbeygate Cinema, Bury St Edmunds
16 October
Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury
17 October
Ilkley Cinema
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
The Rex Cinema Wareham
27 October
Buxton Film
30 October
BEAM Hertford