Director Gurvinder Singh, supported by the late and legendary Mani Kaul as Creative Producer, takes us into a little-seen image of modern rural Punjab.
A rare glimpse into the forgotten land of Inner Mongolia and its unique sounds revitalised by the band AnDa Union, whose global concerts and eventual homecoming we follow.
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.
Hong Sangsoo's latest bulletin from the sex-war is a typically wry and droll account of a man visiting Seoul to look up old friends and running into new ones. But is this his version of Groundhog Day?
An unexpected sequel to The Ballad of Narayama by Imamura's son Daisuke Tengan: the old women sent up the mountain to die instead plan a revenge attack on the village below…until a huge marauding bear gets in the way.
Winner of a Tiger Award in Rotterdam, Sivaroj Kongsakul's superbly beautiful debut chronicles a rural courtship…and frames it in the context of the husband's early death.
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.
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.
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.
Mitsuko is in her ninth month of pregnancy, but that doesn't stop her taking the lead when all around her are floundering. Yuya Ishii's breathless comic drama has satire, brio and originality to burn.
An Iranian boy goes on a road trip with his deaf relatives after his own parents mysteriously leave in the middle of the night and are killed in an accident.
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.
A rookie journalist in 1969 falls under the spell of a charismatic student radical (Kenichi Matsuyama), only to realise that he's capable of murder. Nobuhiro Yamashita and his cast recreate the political turmoil of the period with awesome credibility.
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.
Winner of a number of key awards at SXSW this year, Robbie Pickering's debut feature marks him as a filmmaker to watch, and his cast as stars in the making.
A trio of contrasting short films made through the Africa First mentoring scheme: an important initiative that seeks to identify emerging talent from Africa.
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.
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.
A member of an elite Israeli anti-terrorist unit finds his world turned upside down when he encounters an act of shocking violence by an extremist Jewish group.
Director Andrew Dosunmu has a background in commercials, photography and music video. This is a superb feature debut, and a spectacle to be marveled at.
A thoughtful consideration of American life during wartime that avoids polemical analysis in favour of presenting a touching human story with credible integrity.
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.
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.
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.
