Going Out: Cinema
Prayers for the Stolen
Out now
This uncompromising coming-of-age drama is the first first fiction feature from documentarian Tatiana Huezo, who brings the keen eye of a non-fiction film-maker to the story of eight-year-old Ana and her family and friends, whose lives in rural Mexico’s opium poppy heartland are lived in the shadow of cartel violence.
Small Body
Out now
People going to extraordinary lengths for their beliefs has long been a staple of some of humankind’s most unusual endeavours. Writer-director Laura Samani’s jumping-off point in this excellent Italian period drama is the belief that an unbaptised child who dies will be trapped in limbo. The resulting quest narrative is moving.
The Outfit
Out now
Mark Rylance plays a former Savile Row tailor – or “cutter” in the parlance of this 1950s Chicago-set crime drama – now making bespoke suits for the mob. The action takes place over the course of a single night in a mafia men’s outfitters, with plenty of double-crossing twists and turns.
Compartment No 6
Out now
When archaeology student Laura (Seidi Haarla) boards an overnight train to Murmansk, she is adrift in the purgatory of a failing relationship. The last thing she needs is to share a sleeper cabin with a drunken Russian (Yuriy Borisov), but somehow, an unlikely connection forms. Catherine Bray
Going Out: Gigs
Khruangbin
14 to 16 April; tour starts London
Otherworldly Texas trio Khruangbin have grown from a psych-rock fringe concern to landing a UK top 10 with 2020’s Mordechai. Allow their languid, exploratory near-instrumentals ease you away from this hellfire. Michael Cragg
Dua Lipa
15 April to 3 May; tour starts Manchester
Almost two years to the day since her second album Future Nostalgia cemented her status in pop’s top tier, Dua Lipa finally gets to air its lithe electropop in public. With a setlist of hits already under her belt,…