The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in February

If you want to see a great film in February, you're probably going to have to do some reading, because the best movies are either in a foreign language or, indeed, an invented dialect. Trust us, the subtitles will be worth it.

Film of the month: The Settlers

Cinema (the talent that is, not your rundown local multiplex) is in good shape. Just look at some of the cracking debut films we had last year: Celine Song’s Past Lives, Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane, to name just a few. Now add to that company first-time Chilean director Felipe Gálvez – and maybe put him near the top.

With The Settlers, Gálvez has crafted a brutally beguiling, starkly elegant colonial Western that hits you like a rusty, slo-mo bullet between the eyes. Although to call it simply a “Western” is a disservice. Yes, there are three olden days men