Director: Scott Graham
Cast: Chloe Pirrie, Joseph Mawle, Michael Smiley
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It’s not easy growing up. It’s even harder if you do it in the middle of nowhere with only a petrol pump and your dad (Mawle) for company. That’s Shell’s (Pirrie) life. A car comes by. She fills it up. The car drives away. More often than not, no cars come at all. But still she stays put, manning the shop while Pete tears up wrecked vehicles for scrap money.

A woman opens the window in her fiancée's museum. She speaks into an earpiece, climbs out, then walks up the wall to the roof. From that moment on, The Thieves well and truly captures your attention.

Choi Dong-hoon's film has been billed as South Korea's answer to Ocean's Eleven. From its über-cool editing and all-star cast to the absurdly complex plot, it's every bit as stylish – and thanks to its globe-trotting locations and relentless pace, at times, even more impressive.

Director: Jaume Balagueró
Cast: Luis Tosar
Certificate: 15

A man wakes up in bed next to a woman. He brushes his teeth with a purple toothbrush. He leaves the flat, closing the door quietly behind him. He goes downstairs. He changes into his uniform and starts his shift on the apartment block’s front desk. Three hours later, she descends in the lift.

"Good day, Miss Clara. How did you sleep?" asks the concierge.

Director: Sarah Gavron
Certificate: TBC

The Inuit language has hundreds of words for snow. So goes the urban legend. But what's it really like to live in a tiny house in the middle of nowhere? Pretty awesome, judging by this documentary.

Sarah Gavron follows the day-to-day goings on in the community of Niaqornat. One of the smallest settlements in Greenland, it's bordered by water on one side and snowy wilderness on the other. There are more dogs than people. It really is a village at the end of the world.

Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Cast: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling
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Arbitrage. Is it a verb? Is it a noun? Apparently it's both. What does it mean? I have no idea. Even after watching this film, which uses that dull word for its title, I don't have a clue.

Director: Régis Roinsard
Cast: Romain Duris, Déborah François
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Populaire is without a doubt the best speed-typing film of all time. One, because there probably aren't any others. Two, because it's fantastic.

Valentine's Day no doubt had an influence in picking it for last night's opening gala for the Glasgow Film Festival, but the good news is that it's just as lovely on any other day of the week.