Stylish and contemplative tale of a young man's wistful return to the city he loves. A stunning new film from the creators of Reprise (LFF 2006).

A witty, snow-steeped French comedy thriller that riffs on the Marilyn Monroe legend, as a mystery writer unravels the death of a small-town beauty.

Sandrine Kiberlain gives her best performance yet in Yves Caumon's subtle, intelligent drama about a woman who walks alone.

Produced by Jia Zhangke and a double prizewinner in Shanghai, Han Jie's strikingly original film follows a small-town loser who botches his own marriage but becomes a savant to his mining village in North-east China.

Rohmer and Hitchcock prove telling reference points in this tale of a voyeurism set in a sleepy Argentine seaside town.

Jiang Wen's rumbustious comedy-adventure, set in the 1920s, is an Eastern Western. Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You and Jiang himself star as the three unscrupulous men vying for control of Goose Town: fun performances, and lots of flying bullets.

Ex-editor Charliebebs Gohetia offers a startlingly fresh take on a broken relationship, first from the woman's point-of-view, then from the man's. Sharp, visually arresting and very grown-up, it's unlike any other Filipino indie.

Barabara Loden's brilliant one-off, independent, classic road-movie, in which heroine Wanda embarks on an odyssey of petty crime across seedy middle America.

A profound insight into the world's oldest profession that reveals vast differences in attitude to sex, money, power and religion in three different countries.

Letters from two acclaimed directors offer a remarkable portrait of their attitudes to the craft of filmmaking and the world around them.

Pema Tseden's quest to create a new Tibetan cinema takes another leap forward with this droll/tragic tale of conflicts between a shepherd and his heavy-drinking son…particularly over their pet Nomad Mastiff.

The sex lives of the upper classes come under scrutiny in this tour de force of late silent British cinema.

Ex-editor Charliebebs Gohetia offers a startlingly fresh take on a broken relationship, first from the woman's point-of-view, then from the man's. Sharp, visually arresting and very grown-up, it's unlike any other Filipino indie.