Andrea Arnold's radical and beautifully filmed adaptation of this classic tale of obsessive love.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles transposed to modern day India by Michael Winterbottom, with Freida Pinto as the tragic heroine.

When your country starts treating you like you don't belong, then it's time to leave.

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

Cinematographer Sonthar Gyal's debut feature is a Tibetan road movie: a young man burdened with grief and guilt travels back to his rural home, mostly on foot…and learns a lot about himself and others along the way.

Gabriel Abrantes and his collaborators use the language of commercial cinema to create works that explore historical and political themes with humour and audacity.

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.

Director Robert Guédiguian returns to his old Marseille stamping ground for an entertaining, politically passionate drama starring the director's ensemble regulars.

A rebellious teenager reacts against strictures of her local church and ends up on a bizarre errand to collect something out of town with the parish priest.

A father and a daughter come into conflict about whether she should stay in rural Slovakia or leave for England in Zuzana Liová's award-winning debut.

A visionary journey through American history using chemically treated celluloid appropriated from newsreels and fiction films.

Ann Hui's surpassingly moving film centres on the intense relationship between a middle-aged man (Andy Lau) and the elderly woman (Deanie Ip) who has been his family's amah - domestic helper - for some sixty years.

A lieutenant in the secret police goes about his deadly business but develops an unexpected obsession in Radim Špaček's compelling portrait of Czech society in the early 1980s.

A series of snapshots depicting family and friendships, as small-town life around the world is put under the microscope. Philip Ilson

A classy haunted house yarn that boasts a great cast, as deceptively moving as it is chilling.

Tragi-comic depiction of events surrounding the election of a new Pope in Nanni Moretti's searching, satirical sideswipe at the Catholic Church in Italy.

An abstract crime film by collage artist Lewis Klahr, who re-animates images from comic books, advertisements and photographs.

A star-studded British cast graces Roland Emmerich's exploration of the contested authorship of Shakespeare's works.

Marc Evans' latest feature is a sweet and sincere paean to the pre-punk 1970s.

A sophisticated and technically stunning animated reflection on recent history.

Poetic, observational works by two distinguished 16mm filmmakers. Dorsky creates beauty from the commonplace; Rivers finds beauty in unexpected circumstances.

Dazzlingly inventive, this biting, darkly witty tale of father-son rivalries within the Israeli academic establishment is an astute study of pride, envy and temptation.

A boldly conceived dystopian epic set in Russia 2020.

A powerful and inspiring real-life story about an Egyptian widow with HIV who battles to overcome society's prejudices and receive proper treatment.

A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, and betrayal that reveals a great deal about the culture of protest and the paranoia of the post-9/11 America.