This resolutely left field and refreshingly off kilter drama is about family, protection and growing up in rural Korea. We follow Police Academy instructor Young-nam (Doona Bae), who, expelled from her Seoul job for excessive drinking, finds that her new role in a small backwater town mostly involves corralling a community of drunks.

She soon meets Do-hee, a timid and withdrawn 14-year-old covered in cuts and bruises, bullied by her classmates and physically abused by her violent drunk of a stepfather. Concerned, Young-nam takes her in, but when her former girlfriend shows up and Do-hee's father decides he wants his daughter back, a new raft of problems rear their ugly heads. A fearless, strange tale that thrums with love, desire and violence, this boldly confrontational film looks at the underbelly of a dark little town and does not like what it sees.

• The screening of A Girl at My Door on Tue 22 Sept is part of our Cinébites deal: Get 30% off any main dish in the Café/Bar with a valid cinema ticket.

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