The Voice of Hind Rajab (15)

BAFTA winner Ben Whishaw (BBC’s This Is Going To Hurt) reunites with his Passages director Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Little Men) and joins Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) in Sachs’s stunning new film, a richly cinematic rendering of acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar’s 1974 meeting with writer and artist Linda Rosenkrantz.

A brilliant photographer and a man-about-town, Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist's life to Rosenkrantz, capturing a single day in his world, interacting with cultural icons of the day like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Susan Sontag, and participating in the vibrant creative scene of downtown 1970s New York. 

Elegant and intimate – and a dazzling showcase for the two performers at its centre – Peter Hujar’s Day is both a masterful portrait of a very particular time and place and a captivating look at the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life.