New Directors/New Films — A–Z of films

A totally idiosyncratic creation, something that deserves to be relished for its bravado refusal to play by the rules.

What makes this documentary so powerful and so enjoyable is its intimacy with its subject.

Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.

By mixing the situations of a crime drama with dysfunctional family dynamics, the everyday becomes accentuated, meaning that outbreaks of violence are absurdly comic but still retain a nasty edge.

Hansen-Love prefers to make her points through gesture and nuance and the film is all the better for it.

Not outright farce, too naturalistic to mug, but observational, behavioural comedy requires that we be looking from the same perspective.

A work of chilling beauty, whose sparse, unforgiving landscapes can accommodate all manner of allegorical readings.

I Am Love is social melodrama in the best traditions of Italian cinema.

There is nothing to temper all the teenage angst bullshit.

On the one hand this is a very personal tale of one family's struggle to make the best of trying circumstances, but on the other it is a stinging indictment on a political and economic structure that is stretching families to breaking point.

From the two-tone credit sequence to the jaunty camera angles, this is visually striking stuff.

Another documentary gem from the incredibly strong factual line-up at Sundance 2010.

A quietly humorous, gently endearing examination of one man's attempts to get his hands on the American dream.

A low-key, but fascinating, documentary.

History replicated in the editing suite, composition compelling, illuminating.

Rob & Valentyna In Scotland feels genuine, even heartfelt.

The movie works by getting under your skin in ways that you only realise when the situation turns sour.