★★★☆☆ Jazmín López's Leones (2012) is just one of several challenging and inventive Argentinian films to play at this year's East End Film Festival. Consisting of less than twenty takes spread across a relatively short 82-minutes, López's study of time and spirituality transcends conventional narrative filmmaking to good, if not stellar effect. We're not so much introduced to Leones' company of five young friends as thrust into their world as they wander through a secluded forest. We become immersed in their private games as the group search for a secluded house hidden deep within this fertile wilderness - the end of the line.

The characters of Leones ebb and flow across the frame like memories fading in/out of recollection, often reappearing miraculously in expanses that - by the laws of physics - should be impossible. Their meandering seems to be leading them in circles, their search for this mysterious...