A poor and naïve villager discovers the stolen Nobel Prize gold medal of Bengali hero Rabindranath Tagore and heads to Kolkata in the hope of returning it.

Richard Jobson's committed, imaginative response to our collective apathy to the war in Iraq.

The remarkable political life of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.

James Benning brings his formal precision to this study of twenty people engaged in the act of smoking.

From Spain's Fernando León de Aranoa comes a socially incisive and beautifully performed tale of an unlikely friendship.

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.

An affecting and delicate teen romance which confirms Gus Van Sant as one of Hollywood’s most astute and sensitive chroniclers of American youth.

Striking footage from the struggle for civil rights in the USA, resurrected from the vaults of Swedish TV.

Two sisters are divided and united by the old family farm. One has given her life to the cows, the other only wished she could escape them.

Todd Solondz draws dark comedy from the story of two dysfunctional thirtysomethings planning to marry.

A one-night stand turns into something altogether more unexpected in Andrew Haigh's heartfelt love story.

A young woman battles with a recent tragedy whilst caring for an elderly man in this haunting, claustrophobic drama.

The characters in these seven diverse short films about the complexities of personal relationships have to deal with many different pressures, such as family duty, battling their own consciences or coping with social media. Simon Young

A young couple's passionate relationship plays out against the backdrop of a manhunt.

From Hackney to Chelsea in the company of the great 1920s British travelogue.

A haunting documentary on objects, memory and the politics of commerce by prize-winning filmmaker Mercedes Álvarez.

The much-anticipated film based on Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel.

Three stories from the Sri Lankan civil war (all with violent endings) are interwoven in Sanjeewa Pushpakumara's coolly modernist, non-partisan debut. Best Director prize, St Petersburg.

Ceylan’s most audacious film yet is a measured, masterly account of a police investigation, Chekhovian in its piercing insights, subtle wit and thematic richness.

Karen leaves her husband and finds herself in this smart, confident debut-feature from a new voice in Colombian filmmaking.