55th BFI London Film Festival

The Lord Worked Wonders in Me is an uncompromising cinematic vision with the attention to composition you expect from Albert Serra.

Three parallel stories reveal the economic and spiritual decay within a community that struggles to hang on to a degree of normailty despite the violence.

A co-production with the Krakow Festival Office, Crulic – The Path to Beyond is both a strong indictment of a prison system guided only by rules and an exposure of bureaucratic failings.

An elegant and highly moving documentary by director Mercedes Álvarez on history, mortality, memory and the politics of commerce in the contemporary world.

Debut director Salim Ahamed presents a rare and poignant tale of Muslim community life in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Farshbaf fashions a consistently surprising and blackly comic road trip that may herald the arrival of a major new Iranian talent.

By one of the brightest talents in Korean indie filmmaking Kim Kyung-Mook, Stateless Things cross-cuts between the stories of two dissimilar young men in present-day Seoul. 

Hermes Paralluelo’s thoughtful documentary charts three Argentine boys’ day-to-day adventures.

Director Hong Sangsoo's film centres on drinking, social embarrassments, seductions and rejections. But once again, it all feels so fresh and unfamiliar.

From the trivial minutiae of small-town politics to a nearby secret weapon test site, Darwin’s atmospheric tone is pitch-perfect, depicting its curious subjects with respectful empathy.

James Benning structures this film by asking twenty individuals to smoke a cigarette, and each shot lasts as long as it takes for this to happen.

Debut director Mark Jackson’s claustrophobic portrait of a confused young woman.

Petzold brings a cool air of menace and unease to this story, and to the more fairytale elements of the setting and the youngsters’ romance.

In the isolated Alaskan town of Barrow, far north of the Arctic Circle, friends Qalli and Aivaaq have grown up together in a community where traditional values rub shoulders with the modern world.

Dominik Graf's film with a talky and almost self-consciously retro style.

Although it’s rooted in very personal memories, Director Sivaroj Kongsaku's Eternity is not at all the usual autobiographical coming-of-age movie.

Pema Tseden finesses a completely convincing blend of naturalistic detail and bigger-picture metaphors for the strains of life in a changing Tibet. Not surprisingly, it’s very beautiful.

With moments of dark humour, and surprising poignancy, the film reinforces the belief, common across all three films, that things are not always what they seem.

When a young woman wins a radio contest, her prize is four days in a hotel in Ostende. The film’s marked focus renders this a visually arresting and highly individual debut.

This second feature of Charliebebs Gohetia is a beautifully stylised meditation on what we think about when we’re in a relationship and having sex.