Michod has created a deeply pessimistic but fascinating world lit by excellent cinematography and set to a moody score.
After the death of his mother, a 17-year-old boy is thrust precariously between an explosive criminal family and a detective who thinks he can save him. Plus read our exclusive interview with Ben Mendelsohn.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: David Michôd; Writer: David Michôd; Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton, James Frecheville, Daniel Wyllie, Anthony Hayes, Laura Wheelwright, Mirrah Foulkes, Justin Rosniak, Susan Prior, Clayton Jacobson, Anna Lise Phillips)
In 1981, during the growing Polish Solidarity movement, four small-town teenagers form a punk rock band with the hope of playing at a local festival.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2009; Director: Jacek Borcuch; Writer: Jacek Borcuch; Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Jakub Gierszal, Andrzej Chyra, Anna Radwan, Katarzyna Herman, Mateusz Banasiuk, Marek Kalita, Igor Obloza, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Elzbieta Karkoszka, Brygida Turowska, Ewa Kolasinska, Halina Skoczynska, Grzegorz Gzyl)
This is an upbeat, often hilarious, but never mawkish, celebration of love.
A Boy and his brother find their fantasy version of their dad is somewhat different to the real deal.
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2010; Director: Taika Waititi; Writer: Taika Waititi; Stars: Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone)
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Because it wouldn't be a Chris Morris production unless it made me feel horrendously uncomfortable in some way or other, I laughed a lot, realised with horror what nightmarish events I was laughing at, and then started to laugh at that instead.
Four bungling would-be suicider bombers try to go out with a bang.
A man - the first European with Down's syndrome to get a university diploma - falls for a workmate with no apparent disability.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor; Writer: Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor; Stars: Lola Dueñas, Isabel García Lorca, Antonio Naharro, Teresa Arbolí, Joaquín Perles, Ramiro Alonso, Consuelo Trujillo, Susana Monje, Pablo Pineda, Ana De los Riscos, María Bravo, Pepe Quero, Daniel Parejo, Roma Calderón, Tania Román)
Nuummioq
A young man's journey through the natural landscape of Greenland allows him to piece together elements of his past and move on with his life.
The road trip device may be a familiar one but it is a choice that broadens the appeal and accessibility of the film and takes it away from more political machinations into the realm of simpler storytelling.
In the days following the fall of Saddam, a Kurdish grandmother takes her grandson on the search for his father.
In La Paz, Bolivia, in a villa surrounded by beautiful gardens, an upper-class family experiences final halcyon days of luxury as social change penetrates their bubble.
(Country: Bolivia; Year: 2009; Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia; Writer: Juan Carlos Valdivia; Stars: Ninón del Castillo, Pascual Loayza, Nicolás Fernández, Juan Pablo Koria, Mariana Vargas, Viviana Condori, Luisa De Urioste, Glenda Rodriguez, Ximena Alvarez, Juana Chuquimia)
The Temptation of St Tony
(Püha Tõnu kiusamine)
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
A young housewife, finds herself having strange dreams that make her disgusted by meat, leading to trouble with her meat-loving husband and attention from her artist brother in law.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2009; Director: Lim Seong-woon; Writer: Lim Woo-Seong; Stars: Chea Min-Seo, Kim Hyun-Sung, Kim Yeo-Jin, Kim Young-Jae)
