SF/Arts Curator Insight

A delightful festival of reliably entertaining films from the UK, Ireland, Australia and beyond includes: “Brides,” which follows a pair of British girls fleeing to Syria on an ill-advised mission to join ISIS ; “Twiggy,” Sadie Frost’s doc about the meteoric rise of the ultra-skinny, doe-dyed supermodel “It Girl, aka Lesley Hornby, whose image ruled the swinging ‘60s: and “Mr. Burton,” the story of the schoolmaster (Toby Jones), who discovered and nurtured the Welsh miner’s son, who adopted his mentor’s name and grew up to be Richard Burton. Sharing a nostalgia double-header: best picture Oscar winners. “Tom Jones” and “Chariots of Fire.”