Here’s your first look at Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie in Season 3 of BBC police drama Vigil.

A teaser shows the pair trekking across a frozen tundra, long-range rifle strapped to their backs, as their latest high-stakes investigation takes them to a remote Arctic research station. “In the Arctic, you don’t understand what’s coming,” a foreboding voiceover says in the words spoken in the 25-second trailer.

In Season 3 of the International Emmy-winning series, DCI Amy Silva (Jones) and DI Kirsten Longacre (Leslie) investigate why a member of a covert British special forces mission has been shot dead in the research station.

They need to both catch the killer and defuse a potential international confrontation, as different nations compete for control of the Arctic and its resources in the changing polar climate.

The first two episodes will drop on Sunday, August 30 in the UK, with eps then running on Sunday and Monday nights at 9pm on BBC One.

Season 3 cast includes Dominic Mafham, reprising his role as Sir Ian Downing, and new cast such as Jeppe Beck Laursen (The Last Kingdom) as Henrick Becken, Svalbard’s Chief of Police; Naomi Yang (Under Salt Marsh) Shen Jia, a microbiologist; Tornike Gogrichiani (Extraction 2) as Fyodor, a Russian colonel; Steven Miller (Dept. Q) and Benjamin Wainwright(Maigret) as Special Boat Service operators; Danusia Samal (Red Eye) as Jasmine Kelly, who works alongside Downing; Eric Godon (In Bruges) as Mayor Korotayev; and Amy Manson (Rebus) as Lorna McCallister, a geologist. Gary Lewis reprises his role as DSU Robertson, who continues to work closely with Amy and Kirsten. 

The six-part season comes from World Productions in association with its parent company, ITV Studios. Tom Edge is writer and creator, with additional writing coming from Tom Mair and Eve Hedderwick Turner. The producer is Marcus Wilson, associate producer is George Aza-Selinger and executive producers are Jake Lushington for World, Gaynor Holmes for the BBC and Edge. Stephanie Fyfe is the commissioning executive for the BBC, and the directors are Gareth Bryn and Faye Gilbert. ITV Studios handles the international distribution.

Vigil Season 1, in which Jones’ Silva was enlisted to solve a murder on a navy submarine in Scottish waters, was BAFTA-nominated and won the International Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2021. Season 2, from 2023, focused on a deadly drone attack, launched to nearly nine million viewers and was in the BBC’s top-three most-watched dramas of the year. In the U.S., both seasons stream on Peacock.

Adolescent outcasts, identity and violence take center stage in Oasis (Oase), the much-anticipated debut feature of German writer-director Jannis Lenz, which will world premiere on Sept. 6 in the Horizons section of the 83rd edition of the Venice Film Festival.

This one will be very different from that other Oasis movie at Venice, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, a concert documentary about the reunion tour of the famous band that brought Liam and Noel Gallagher back together.

If you don’t believe me, just read this synopsis for Oasis. “When a viral video of a student threatening his classmates surfaces online, the school spirals into escalating violence,” it notes. “Crushed by the pressure of teachers and parents, three outcasts take refuge in a nearby forest. There, play hardens into ritual, and pain becomes an escape, until old wounds surface and the boundaries between them are redrawn.”

The cinematic drama is an exploration of violence, body and identity – themes that Lenz has also touched on in his previous work.

The cast stars up-and-coming German actors Florian Geißelmann (Sound of Falling, Home Stories), Anton Petzold (Home Stories, Ouija) and Mathilda Smidt (Almania, Chabos), as well as veteran Godehard Giese (Rose, Transit, Babylon Berlin). Britta Hammelstein (Murder Mindfully, Woman of the Dead, The Sparrow in the Chimney) and Ioana Iacob (Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World) also feature in the cast.

Lenz directed Oasis based on a screenplay that he wrote with Alexander Dirninger, who also served as
director of photography. The editors are Lenz and Melisa Krasniqi.

“Body, space, and identity dissolve into one another, revealing the fragile beauty and quiet brutality of human relationships, while echoing the violence that shapes our contemporary world,” tease the press notes for Oasis.

Check out the poster for the film, which THR can exclusively debut, right here.

Lenz has previously turned heads with such shorts as Wannabe (2017), which got nominated for the European Film Award, and Soldat Ahmet (2021), which won several awards after its world premiere at the Visions du Réel festival in Switzerland.

Oasis is produced by Germany’s Zeitgeist Filmproduktion and co-produced by Austria’s Wega Film and Germany’s Third Picture in collaboration with We Fade to Grey, Ocean Pictures Filmproduktion and Totem Films. The German theatrical release is planned for February 2027 via Mindjazz Pictures. Totem is handling international sales on the German-Austrian co-production.

THR can now also exclusively premiere a trailer for the movie. School scenes, one pupil getting questioned about his threat of violence against schoolmates, and images of the protagonists in the forest create unsettling atmosphere. Oh yeah, there are also disturbing drawings. All in all, the audiovisual atmosphere teased here feels unnerving.

But check out the trailer for Oasis yourself right here.