Madonna directs this rich, elegantly structured story of two women, decades apart, confronting the consequences of desire.

Werner Herzog's powerful exploration of violence and its consequences, told through Death Row inmates and others close to their crimes.

Alexander Payne's first feature since Sideways stars George Clooney as a father forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future.

The directorial debut of Austrian actor Karl Markovics, Breathing is an assured, intelligent work that has deservedly picked up a number of prizes in Europe since it premiered at Cannes earlier this year.

A delicate and witty portrait of Jake, an outsider who lives in the wilderness of his own creation.

Joe Swanberg continues his exploration into the methods of modern love.

Fenz's beautifully photographed, lyric films are structured improvisations which draw on images he has collected around the world.

Vincent Cassel gets back to the roots of Gothic, in Dominik Moll's suitably torrid adaptation of the legendary novel about good, evil and dark desire.

Newcomer Elizabeth Olsen stars in this atmospheric story of a young woman recently escaped from a cult-like commune.

An atmospheric, brooding rural drama reminiscent of early Terrence Malick.

A Tagorean tale of love lost and mistaken identities in upper class, early 20th Century Kolkata.

A romantic comedy with a nod to Woody Allen's Manhattan where boy fails to meet girl across the crowded cityscape of twenty-first century Buenos Aires.

The prolific Joe Swanberg debates whether cinema matters.

Pip Chodorov's personal journey through avant-garde film history features appearances from Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage and Hans Richter.

Ranging from mildly confused self-doubt, through fear and paranoia to full-on sheer terror, these seven disorientating short films will leave you wondering what just happened. Simon Young

Pip Chodorov's personal journey through avant-garde film history features appearances from Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage and Hans Richter.

An intriguing political allegory set in the wheeler-dealing world of Argentine student politics.

A selection of recent shorts from some of the capital's most exciting new filmmakers, supported by Film London's production schemes. Maggie Ellis

A female social worker becomes involved with one of her abusers in Angelina Nikonova's disturbing portrait of a disjunctive urban world of everyday violence.