Through the medium of drag – and with plenty of wit and glamour to enjoy along the way – Danger highlights the unreasonable expectations placed on all feminine people.
A quartet of drag queens meet on a group therapy retreat that will change their lives forever.
Szczepanik picks up on the way that athletes can easily be co-opted as symbols of something much more political than the simple act of sporting success.
Documentary about Olympic pole vaulter Władysław Kozakiewicz.
Too much of this fascinating material was subordinated to the question of what to call them, to the point where the director's insistence on that single question started to get in the way.
A documentary about the women of Greece's Golden Dawn party.
Much messier and more like real life than the average coming-of-age film.
An Asian Canadian teenager grapples with his identity when he falls for the boy next door. What will his family think? And how will he tell his girlfriend?
Milland and Dietrich have such charm and comic talents that they save it, more or less.
Stiff upper-lipped British officer falls for a gypsy while on a mission in Nazi Germany. Out to own now as part of Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection 18-disc box set.
A crisp, downbeat, clever exploration of the issues, combined with a whodunnit.
In the aftermath of President Macron's U-turn on a glyphosate ban, the stories of lawyer Patrick, victim France and lobbyist Mathias intertwine when the wife of a farmer dead from cancer commits a terrible act of protest.
The odd structure doesn’t always serve the film well, but Ryder is impressive, disappearing into her character in a way she has rarely managed to do elsewhere.
When Kath and her boyfriend arrive at a remote cabin in the redwoods, they find a mysterious younger couple already there. Her boyfriend disappears with the young woman, and Kath becomes obsessed with finding an explanation.
Goodbye Cruel World shifts the narrative away from the bleakness one might expect, showing that it’s possible to make a film about a difficult and sensitive subject with tenderness, humour and sprinkles of hope.
Otto Vidal, 14, disappears after writing a farewell letter to his classmates. While everyone believes he is dead, Léna, a girl from his high school, spots him one night roaming the streets of the city.
Storywise, there’s not a great deal here which hasn’t been done before, but it will be new to the young audience it’s really aimed at, and it’s beautifully told.
When three boys get lost together in the forest, the adventure they share will change them forever.
Kordofani uses the greater intimacy offered by the camera to bring us close to the characters and reveal the complex layers of relationship developing between them.
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
While the sisters are unguarded around the camera and often caught in close conversation, Murphy also knows when to hang back so that we get a picture of them in their environment, which emphasises the majesty of the Himalayas but which also captures a sense of their smallness against the world.
Twenty-one-year-old Jamuna accompanies her younger sister on what could be their last trip to the mountains to join their family harvesting yarsagumba, a rare and valuable fungus.
In Good Boy, Indy the dog delivers not only a great animal performance, but one of the best performances by anyone this year.
Indy is a good boy; a faithful dog, he is always by his human Todd’s side. When Todd seeks quiet in an empty family home in the countryside, Indy finds there is a strange, malevolent presence lurking in the shadows — an evil that only he can sense.
Director Júlia De Paz Solvas shows the effect a violent and manipulative father can have on others without giving him the centrestage attention he would crave – notably we never even hear his name.
A teenager finds herself being manipulated by her violent father after her parents divorce.
This is a film weighted with questions, balancing this burden with a luminous beauty.
When an injured teenager stumbles into a remote Christian community he is cared for and supported. Then the children become convinced that he has holy powers.
Exploring the dynamics of intellectual attraction as well as physicality, Carlton uses the microcosm of the threesome to consider the different things that people look for in relationships.
The different expectations brought to a threesome by each half of a couple and the woman they meet lead to unexpected problems.
Inevitably, there is a slight air of the stage about this and an emotional gear change at the midway point doesn't quite feel fully earned but the actors so fully inhabit these roles that they carry you with them.
Nancy Stokes, a retired school teacher, is yearning for some adventure, and some sex. Good sex. And she has a plan: she hires a young sex worker named Leo Grande.
Jenna Cato Bass’ tight, unnerving thriller creates a landscape of small signals.
A woman moves in with her estranged mother, who is a devoted servant to an elderly white woman in a house haunted by the spectre of South Africa's past.
Good Night, And Good Luck proves that it is still possible in the cinema, if not in television, to inform without being boring and entertain without condescending.
The integrity of journalism is pitted against the politics of the Cold War in Fifties America.
White keeps an impressively tight hold on the narrative as he takes us through the ups and downs (literal and otherwise) of the rovers’ adventures.
The story of Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately dubbed Oppy by her creators and scientists at NASA. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ultimately explored Mars for nearly 15 years.
It is only after leaving the cinema that questions come bursting to the surface, not that they undermine Dr Niro’s magnificent achievement behind the camera
A history of the CIA told through the life story of an increasingly paranoid agent.
