Vacations are supposed to be restorative; they provide an escape from reality. But what if evading their existence goes too far for those already on the run from their lives— or those trapped in their golden handcuffs reality? That’s the subtle question posed in German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s (“Lara”) excellent and captivating new drama, “Islands,” about lonely souls who find themselves amid fraught and anxious circumstances that appear as though if they’ll provide an exit from the escape room they are dwelling in.

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