Whisky

With the success of their previous film 25 Watts, Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll present the black comedy (titled after the local equivalent of saying ‘cheese’ before a camera shot). This is a real deadpan hoot shot with an immovable camera – indicative of the immovable character of the protagonist.
Jacobo Koller (Andres Pazos) owns a dreary, unmodernised sock factory in Uruguay. On the death of his mother, his brother, also a sock industrialist but who is much more dazzling as a person, comes to stay.
Jacobo pretends to have a wife and a life to deceive his more upbeat and successful brother. This still, funny and quietly drole film is worth seeking out – considering that it is the antithesis of a Hollywood film.
Nothing happens but everything happens. Innovatively made, this labour of love is justifiably award-winning.

• Chelsea Cinema, Curzon Soho, Ritzy and Odean Covent Garden.