There's some nice work around the physical threat posed by women, which Finney would have approved of.
Three friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbours are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.
Green shows the trickle-down effect of toxic masculinity, as Jane's male colleagues - scarcely higher in the pecking order than her - nevertheless chip away at her.
A day in the life of Jane, an assistant to a high-powered film executive.
Writer/director Mehdi Hosseinivand knows when to dial back on the big eyes and the soft golden light to remind us that this isn’t a quaint fantasy, it’s a picture of millions of children’s real day to day lives.
A 12-year-old boy takes odd jobs to support his family after his older brother and father disappear.
The combination of Disney-style chasing the dream narrative and gritty realism at work here is a thing to behold.
An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realise his dream, he must learn to share it.
Shot mainly at night, the darkness deepens the film's oppressive quality, while the constant presence of rubbish only adds to the sense of everyone sitting in a miasma of despair.
Documentary tracking the human fallout of Rodrigo Duterte's policy of executing suspected drug dealers in the Philippines.
Strahinja’s whole journey leaves the feeling of participating in a sort of pilgrimage with him, via a vérité shooting style that works all the steady-cam shakes in its favour, adding to the film's authenticity.
Strahinja and his wife Ababuo left Ghana with a dream of a better life in Europe, only to find themselves stranded in Serbia. One day, Ababuo goes missing.
1275 a.C. - A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist uses her for his strange experiments. Only a young amanuensis will try to free her at any cost. 2011 a.C. - A couple of young teenagers, Cris and Jessy, go missing in the woods while a young woman comes out from the middle of nowhere.
The personal emotion of its director Samaher Alqadi punches through the centre of it hard - which gives her film a searing edge even if much of it feels scrappy and politically muddied.
A consideration of violence against women in Egypt in the wake of Morsi's rise to power.
It’s slow-moving art house fare, and those who prefer more to be revealed by what is said than left unsaid would do well to avoid, but its impact is mesmerising.
Members of an Arab family thirst
for water, freedom and
acceptance.
Sarandon is a beguiling mix of innocence and toughness and Lancaster brings all his charisma and dignity to bear on a role that is in many ways an older version of the handsome but doomed noir heroes he made his name portraying.
An ageing small-time gangster becomes infatuated with an aspiring casino croupier.
Atomic Hope is intriguing as a portrait of a movement, but falls well short as an interrogation of a scientific proposition.
Is nuclear energy the solution to the climate crisis? Whether it is the only carbon-neutral technology capable of tackling the crisis or a fatally convenient stopgap, time is running out.
This cutesy framing doesn't do much to conceal its otherwise very straightforward narrative structure, but there's nothing necessarily wrong with that.
Documentary about humanity's love affair with nuclear power.
While Gates has found an intriguing setting for her war satire, it’s less clear what she wants to say with it.
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
Maja and Leah’s new relationship is interrupted when mysterious things start happening in their London flat. It seems that Leah’s disapproving mother, who lives downstairs, is using Jewish folklore to come between them
There's a joyousness about this kind of filmmaking, unrestricted as it is by any concern for convention.
A home invasion forces two teenagers to break into a remote country manor little realising it is a retreat for middle-aged men who like to dress in nappies... and who have a sinister plot.
This is art masquerading as trash, and doing so with sufficient flair to appeal to fans of both.
Lonnie, a crop duster pilot, must lead a mismatched group of survivors to escape the deadly zombie horde after an experimental chemical, intended to control the invasive kudzu vine, transforms the citizens of Charleston, MS into zombies.
In Moreno's genre comedy, not only are the horrors of a century-old Romanian vendetta exposed to the full moon's half light, but also a trail of hidden ordnance and long-buried bodies from the more recent, entirely real and utterly homegrown Spanish Civil
A writer returns to his Galician village expecting to receive an award, but the villagers have very different plans for him.
Fans of action and espionage will find a good deal to enjoy.
As an attack on Finland's Independence Day celebrations leads to a hostage crisis, one special agent is desperate to ensure that his colleague is not abandoned to her fate.
Fedor Bonarchuk blends blockbuster stylings with a cultural critique which, he has said, he considers to have present day relevance far beyond Russia's borders.
The teenage daughter of a military chief bonds with an alien after his spacecraft is shot down.
