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Freda Kelly was a teenage typist who became a devoted fan of The Beatles as soon as she saw them playing at The Cavern club one fateful lunch hour.

This picaresque and insightful doc about the people living around Rome’s Ring Road is the winner of this year Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Kaveh Bakhtiari’s feature-length debut documentary focuses on a group of Iranian men, all illegal immigrants to Europe, holed up in an Athens boarding house as each of them attempt to cross the border further north, for better opportunities.

Computer Chess marks something of a departure for Andrew Bujalski, though it has plenty of the wit and warmth of his previous features (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation and Beeswax).

Two films on the life and afterlife of objects: The Trick Brain by Ed Atkins, and It For Others by Duncan Campbell.

It had to happen: Yuya Ishii has transitioned from idiosyncratic indie movies like Sawako Decides and Mitsuko Delivers to a big-budget movie with stars for a major company, and he’s chosen an apparently intractable subject: the compilation of a new dictionary.

In this bittersweet comic drama from South Korean master Sang-soo Hong (HaHaHa, In Another Country), a troubled young woman spirals into a depression when her mother departs for Canada, and falls back on an old love affair with a married professor.

Could a 4-hour documentary about public funding cuts at Berkeley University hold your attention? With masterful documentarian Frederick Wiseman in control, the answer is a resounding yes.

Journalist-turned-filmmaker Chai Chunya was born in a village in Gansu, the Chinese province adjoining Tibet, and he returned there to shoot this remarkable debut feature.

Films of the imagination that ask philosophical questions of narrative: what could have happened before, what would happen if, and what did really happen?