CINEMANIA:

Streaker (Peter Luisi, Switzerland, 2017)

Beat Shlaff plays Balthasar Naff, a teacher and single parent, who is a man with a dream. He wants to build a museum to honour Gottfried Keller, a (from most accounts) proficient if unexceptional chronicler of 19th Century bourgeois Swiss life, who was particularly beloved by his now-deceased wife. However, Balthasar makes a disastrous decision to abscond with school funds targeted for a FIFA level football pitch and bet them on a "sure thing" with the local bookie, only to learn that in the world of sports there are no such things as a sure thing.

American Adrift (Christopher James Lopez, USA, 2016)

Often when a film's narrative has been "ripped from the headlines" the work suffers from an Afterschool special feel, with compromised production values and perfectly unremarkable performances at the service of a story aimed more at sensationalism than subtlety. Thankfully, American Adrift, which takes on the opioid crisis, is not afflicted with these issues.