JULES (Dir: Marc Turteltaub)
Small-town recluse Milton (Ben Kingsley, at his most effortlessly adorable) is getting more forgetful and isolated with age. When an extraterrestrial, who comes to be known as ‘JULES’, crash lands in his backyard, the two form an unlikely bond. Things get complicated when his neighbours Sandy (Harriet Harris) and Joyce (Jane Curtin) make the discovery, just as the government begins to close in. Veteran Hollywood producer Marc Turtletaub (Little Miss Sunshine; The Farewell; Safety Not Guaranteed) directs with a deeply compassionate eye for human frailties and eccentricities in this silver-haired spin on the ‘stranded E.T.’ narrative. Direct from its US theatrical season; co-stars Succession’s Zoe Winter.

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FIRST-ISH CONTACT (Dir: Kai Smythe)
A ‘Dark Matter Surveyor’, a government employee assigned to map the nothingness that is deep space, becomes the first human to make contact with an alien species. It is a workplace development for which he is not, in any way possible, satisfactorily prepared.