Becerra’s film is a measured affair that takes pleasure in its surroundings, whether it’s the mountain lakeside where the alpacas graze or the warm intimacy of Felciano’s home.
Eight-year-old alpaca farmer Feliciano is ecstatic: Peru has the opportunity to qualify for the World Cup. However, the scheming of a mining company is jeopardising the future of his village.
The kind of documentary that expresses its politics through the simple act of observation, Limbal's film is a plea for justice.
Documentary examining the emotional toll of our modern economy on families, told through the lens of a 24-hour daycare centre in Westchester, New York.
It’s not the first time a film has scrutinised what it means to be “a good victim” but Girard’s general restraint, coupled with a controlled central performance from Alaoui bring it home.
The lives of three people are explored after a rape.
Writer/director Carmen Jacquier explores this ideological and psychological clash with confidence and visual flair.
Summer 1900, Switzerland. The sudden death of her older sister forces Elisabeth to return home. Stiffled by the strict rules of the village, Elisabeth is slowly driven to rebel for her right to live her life.
Thunderbolts* comes much closer to being worthwhile as a standalone than a large number of its companions in the Disney/Marvel juggernaut.
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must go on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
Michael Radford's film version of Orwell's masterpiece offers a faithful interpretation, but it is THX 1138 that captures the very essence of its stark warning against totalitarianism.
In a dystopian future, a couple rebel against society's no-emotion rules.
There is not a single note in any one of its songs which will surprise you, and although ostensibly big on emotion it’s so slick that you will feel nothing except what you take in there yourself.
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theatre composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.
There is a miraculous playfulness to all this destructive behaviour. When one riddle is solved, another one appears.
Naples, early 1980s: Aldo and Vanda’s marriage finds itself on the rocks when Aldo falls in love with the young Lidia. Thirty years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married.
We are never allowed to lose sight of the fact that, whilst a little tiger may regard humans as playmates, a big one will regard them as a delicious meaty snacks.
Fifty years ago, a young forest officer in India rallied the world to save tigers from extinction. Today, the creed is carried on in Far East Russia by the guardians of the last Siberian tigers, who risk everything to save the species.
When Martin demonstrates his talent he is celebrated, but what Sandahl is interested in is the weight of all this other experience which fans don’t normally see.
The story of young footballer Martin Bengtsson and his time at Inter Milan.
The performances that director Issa López gets out of the children, most of whom are new to acting, are extraordinary.
A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
Lee Jin-uk’s very inward performance is given a much-welcome contrast by the arrival in the narrative of the delightfully peculiar Ko Hyun-jung.
On a winter day, when a tiger escapes from the zoo, a man is kicked out of his girlfriend's house. Having no place to go, he wanders from here to there while working as a substitute driver and meets his old girlfriend.
The performances here are spot on, but it’s the rich detail that really brings it to life.
A son films his father's addiction, hoping to document his recovery; but as he sacrifices everything to save him, he must decide how much he'll lose for someone who may not want saving.
There are none of the big set piece speeches traditionally associated with winning awards. Instead we are presented with something which feels much more raw and natural.
The story of Mamie Till-Mobley, the Chicago woman whose son, Emmett Till, was lynched while visiting cousins in Mississippi and whose body became an indelible image of the horrors of American racism.
Has all the appeal you'd expect from a lesson on late 20th century Bulgarian history.
Tilt is a love story set against the backdrop of the changing political and social environment in Europe in the late 80s and early 90s. Can this love survive the challenges of emigration, a violent homeland and an immoral social atmosphere?
Bradley’s direction emphasises the beauty of the Rich family’s resilience and humanity, with shots that carry the panoramic vistas of French New Wave and the hypnotic tones of underground cinema.
Fox Rich fights for her husband’s release from jail, after he is sentenced to 60 years of incarceration for a bank robbery, a crime she also served time for in the Nineties.
It may not be flashy but there are flashes of cleverness sparkling throughout.
When a man accidentally travels back in time, he finds restoring the status quo is easier said than done. Plus read our exclusive interview with director Nacho Vigalondo.
This is intertext, existing in a twilight zone where the benefit of 25 years of distance and the loss of colour gives it the cast of something at least as old again.
Footage from a forgotten Stephen King mini-series is edited, printed and animated into a hypnotic paper nightmare.
Jac Shaeffer plays around with the ideas of time and relationships like a malevolent matchmaker, finding plenty of laugh-out loud laughs in the process.
What would you do if you had a device that told you when you would meet your romantic destiny?
Each of the girls who plays Stephanie is remarkable in a different way.
Ignored by her mentally ill mother and largely absent father, a young girl retreats into an inner world of barbaric fantasies, with brutal consequences.
A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.
Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in Muswell Hill. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their shop, with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe.
Supported by only the most rudimentary of plot structures that is crumbling from the outset and a Funny or Die backbone of comic acting talent who really should have stayed on higher ground.
After two guys are given a billion dollars to make a movie, their Hollywood dreams run off course and they decide to rehabilitate a run-down shopping mall in an attempt to make the money back.
Successful films like this are few and far between, whilst the genre is littered with the bones of those that didn’t make it.
A scientist creates a time machine and kills his younger self to see what would happen. That self-obsessed, misanthrope, mad genius of a scientist is Tim Travers, and the universe was bad enough with only one of him.
The Tingler is a film that doesn't have much story and that takes so many narrative short cuts it is impossible to treat it with any seriousness, but it retains the potential to be serious fun.
A pathologist discovers a dangerous parasite that feeds on fear and can only be killed by screaming, but when a mute woman becomes infected, all Hell breaks loose. Famous for the pranks played on audiences at its original screenings.
The cool colours and muted emotions of this John Le Carré adaptation fit the 1973 Cold War backdrop perfectly and are appropriate for the murky world of moralistic shades of grey.
A spy has to root out a mole at the top of the civil service.
It's tightly structured but ambitious in scope and often reminiscent of Soviet cinema in both style and thematic arc.
As the world faces a deadly plague, a front line parasitologist is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber. To escape she must destroy the last of her kind.
Murphy lets the family’s lives shine out without romanticising the situation.
Along a long-forgotten road, the O’Reillys live in a rundown trailer stranded in the middle of the fields. Pa’, Lisa, and their ten children weather the seasons in their tin castle, heirs to a way of life on borrowed time. Under threat of eviction, their tenuous balance falters, yet – steadfast in their tradition – they resist.
Has its moments in terms of the characters who are observed but suffers from a lack of cohesive editing and, most crucially, a map to help orient non-Italian viewers.
Documentary observing the lives and the history of a highway connecting Italy's south and north.
Details leap out from the photographs, not just the faces of those she captured, but the twist of cigarette smoke, metal ashtrays recalling the tang of wet ash, plasters on scrubbed knees.
A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed.
