A figure in the grass with a gun, a name called out in the distance, a woodcutter and a man who has lost a dog are woven together by Lisandro Alonso in a meditation on the past we inherit and the future we construct.
The writer responsible for BAFTA-winning TV dramas Sex Traffic and White Girl, as well as the screen adaptation of Monica Ali's Brick Lane joins us to discuss Shame, her collaboration with director Steve McQueen.
Two young brothers at opposite ends of Kyushu devise a magical plan to reunite their separated parents in Hirokazu Kore-eda's benign and superbly acted picture of family life.
A trio of contrasting short films made through the Africa First mentoring scheme: an important initiative that seeks to identify emerging talent from Africa.
Kim Kyung-Mook's sparky indie feature crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept boy of a married businessman stifling in a swanky apartment.
A triple prizewinner at Locarno, Milagros Mumenthaler's story of three sisters coping with the death of their grandmother offers an original take on the coming of age tale.