Maverick writer-director Maïwenn submerges herself in the grim and forbidding world of the BPE – the French police unit tasked with protecting vulnerable children – in this painfully realistic drama, drawn entirely from real-life cases. You’ll never forget it, but you might wish you could.

Fresh from mainstream success with Heartbreaker, Romain Duris flexes himself further than ever before in this extraordinary portrait of, as the French title has it, a man who wants to live his life. Sharp, dynamic and unbearably emotional, this taut drama is the real deal.