The Somnambulists is a powerful, unapologetically political contribution to the discourse about this country's questionable manoeuvrings abroad since 9/11, lest we forget.
Richard Jobson's committed, imaginative response to our collective apathy to the war in Iraq.
This is a film of boundaries and barriers and attempts to overcome them.
Peter's busy life with new wife Beth and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate comes to him with concerns about their teenage son, Nicholas.
Janis Eglitis' exquisite cinematography is beguiling in the proper sense.
After the death of her estranged but famous composer father Richard Marlow, young virtuoso violinist Rose inherits his old French mansion. There, she discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious score marked with arcane symbols. He may be dead but his plans for her are still very much alive.
Hougen-Moraga and Wagner spent more than three years building relationships with the people here and it shows in the intimacy they achieve in their interviews.
Considering the lasting trauma of decades of abuse in a German religious community in Chile.
While it’s interesting to hear his approach and the steps taken from writing the lyrics to matching the words with the beat, there is still a sense that Songwriter does nothing more than just self-promote.
Ed Sheeran up close, far away from raving fans and the stage. This personal portrait of the British singer-songwriter, filmed by his cousin Murray Cummings, follows this modest performer’s creative process as he writes a new song from scratch.
In spite of Mamoulian’s confident hand and occasionally inspired directorial flourishes, there is no question that the film belongs to Dietrich.
An innocent moves to the city after her father’s death and finds her ideas about love and romance thwarted by cynicism. Available to own as part of Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection.
As usual, Majidi’s characters speak much more through the environments they inhabit than through dialogue, allowing his films to be easily understood worldwide.
This Iranian morality tale deals with an ostrich farmer who loses his job and is forced to travel to and from the city.
A young music collector takes his friend on a trip to steal a valuable record from his grandmother, but the friend finds his grandmother far more intriguing.
This is certainly not the first musical to treat its songs as set pieces and it delivers in terms of action elsewhere, with some thrilling horseback manoeuvres and solid fight scenes.
A musical epic and a romantic parable of a man whose family falls from grace after a tribal feud in a nomadic village.
This small, heartbreaking story illuminates much bigger issues.
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.
Unlike many adaptions it does want to have fun, worrying less about being pixel-perfect or po-faced than propulsive plotting.
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance.
Nasiri is remarkable as the boy at the centre of it all, a child who is withdrawing into himself in the absence of reliable, consistent adult protection.
Hard working widow, Leila, is tirelessly trying to provide for her infant daughter and 12 year-old-son, Amir.
A marriage proposal from kind hearted Kazem could be the solution to all of her financial troubles. Unfortunately, as Kazem has a young daughter of his own, tradition dicates that Amir will be unable to live with them.
The intensity between her and the angry young man drives the action in Sons, capturing a relentless cycle of aggression reverberating throughout the sullen halls.
A prison officer faces a dilemma after a young man from her past is transferred to the jail where she works.
A film that, while laudably ambitious, struggles to stop its ideas from becoming so unruly that they squabble with each other for attention.
After his grandmother’s death, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal and spiritual metamorphosis.
This is a claustrophobic, breathing-down-your-neck look at man's inhumanity to man - as though the Dardennes brothers had taken a one-way ticket to hell.
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people tries to save a body from the flames.
Another dead woman, another motivated but otherwise thinly drawn man less interesting than she might have been, given the chance.
A Nigerian soldier, haunted by his past, returns home after his sister's tragic death. Determined to uncover those responsible, he embarks on a vengeful path, while seeking redemption for his own actions.
By taking their time and standing back from the fray, Mones and Suh are able to take a much more objective look at these social phenomena.
A re-examination of the case of Louis CK, who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017, exploring his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behaviour.
Honoré handles the strands with considerable agility and admirable lack of cliché or sentimentality employing camerawork that is clean and uncluttered.
Two gay men struggle with love in the shadow of mortality.
Writer/director/star Eva Victor has created a poem about the pain and absurdity of entering and continuing adulthood, even when things feel heavy and hopeless.
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
There is a feeling of being in a constant movement, with cars and buildings whizzing by as Souleymane is rushing through the city, either riding his bike, or running from one type of public transport to the next.
Two days in the life of a bike delivery guy who is trying to get asylum.
Directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury have delivered some effective horror thrillers in the past, but this is by far their most accomplished film to date.
When violent and gruesome deaths start plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces.
The two actors bring a wealth of experience and comic timing to their roles – Mac the constantly-hustling control freak riffs nicely off Jackson’s laid-back free spirit persona.
Two soul singers are tempted out of retirement to perform at a tribute gig.
Merz creates a space where emotions run riot, especially in the neon lights of night, the 4:3 aspect ratio letting each of the characters' faces fill the frame with an intensity that matches the colour scheme.
Fantasy and reality meet in the emotional world of a teenage father.
Tyranny is presented here with a full acknowledgement of its cruelty, but care is taken not to be gratuitous, not to further exploit suffering; and beyond this, Grimonprez is keen to highlight its ridiculous side.
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
The lives mirror each other, build on each other, contradict each other, haunt each other.
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera makes her historic debut in one of the reddest states in the US.
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
A stylistically innovative, intelligent piece of work.
A young girl recovers her hearing and gains synesthetic abilities during the brutal murder of her family. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, as an adult, she pursues a career in music composing her masterpiece through gruesome murders.
Ben Ripley's script is far less interested in the technical aspects of its own apparatus than in the human condition itself – our desperate search for big answers and satisfying closure, and the mortality that both delimits and perhaps ennobles this very
A man discovers he's part of an experiment that lets him inhabit another man's body for the last eight minutes of the man's life - his task is to stop a terror attack.
