“It’s not a child, it’s an animal!” Or is it? After watching this strange, introverted chiller from Iceland you’ll never feel comfortable hearing someone refer to a baby as “a little lamb”.

Like all Icelandic movies, Valdimar Johannsson’s debut feature Lamb, co-written with novelist Sjón, is strong on landscape. The screen is filled with sweeping vistas of bare fields and slopes ringed by craggy, snow-topped mountains.