56th BFI London Film Festival

Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler explores the role played by left wing intellectuals in the working class communities of post-war Yorkshire.

The first feature-length documentary on Carolee Schneemann, an artist whose pioneering work has transformed discourses on the body, sexuality and gender.

The seven films made by Peter Kubelka between 1955 and 2003 are an extraordinary demonstration of cinematic possibilities.

Protest and survive: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler’s ambitious new film screens with two equally powerful works by Russell/Cailleau and Ken Jacobs.

In January 1976, the Lutz family fled the infamous 112 Ocean Drive, claiming to have endured an onslaught of poltergeist activity. This documentary offers what might be the most compelling insight yet into what really took place.

Maria Saakyan’s poetic and inventive new film focuses on 14-year-old Evridika, experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, and her private world of internet chat rooms and mobile conversations.

Ruth Mader’s contemplation of relationships between families, husbands and wives or with God, taking place in different strata of society, makes for an exquisite film.

Framed by two sequences featuring Miquel Barceló at work, one of Spain’s leading painters, Jaime Rosales explores the devastation that hits a family following a shocking bereavement.

In this extended portrait, Peter Kubelka speaks at length about his life, work and interests, drawing on a vast range of knowledge and experience.

A beautiful Afghan woman tends to her fighter husband in their bombshelled bedroom. The fighting rages outside while she clings desperately to the hope that one day he will wake up and recover consciousness.

Deliciously funny, not to mention brilliantly timed riff on Trading Places, acted with relish by the all-star cast.

An offbeat slammer pic such as you’ve never seen. Director Fonteyne has crafted an intense, intelligent and affecting character piece that never quite goes where you expect.

From Catalan director Pere Vilà Barceló comes an austere, almost Bressonian French-language study of a family in conflict.

Rodney Ascher explores the cult following Stanley Kubrick's The Shining has garned in the 30 years since its release, including a number who insist that Kubrick implanted ideas about history and the world we live in throughout the film, littering it with codes to decipher.

A small wonder of a film, a spare, wildy original and elegiac character study that carries integrity and emotional weight.

This superb package of shorts by leading East Asian directors offers four kinds of pleasure.

Akin to The English Patient, this Sri Lankan independent film is set in the months after war and deftly explores the emotional fall-out of such trauma on the lives of ordinary people.

Inspired by his own experience – a neighbour was found dead – director Miroslav Momcilovic has produced a compelling commentary on an absurd reality.

Adapted from a stage play by Christopher Shinn, the debut feature from Joshua Sanchez is a provocative rumination on race and sexuality.

Fresh from Cannes success, this compelling multi-strand film noir tells of ace narcotics investigation cop Ranjit.

A charming rumination on art and observation featuring strikingly beautiful images that appeared to have been captured casually.

Twenty of the top directors in Taiwan contribute five-minute vignettes on the uniqueness of their homeland. They rise to the occasion with a varied range of mini-documentaries, mini-fictions and mini-drama docs, some of them touching, many darkly amusing.

A provocative character study shot with vérité styling in claustrophobic close-up on handheld camera, and an urgent parable for Greece’s economic meltdown.

Martin Marecek’s film analyses the course of events with an ironic perspective that raises uncomfortable issues around the clash of cultures.

Taking its inspiration from the Brothers’ Grimm story, Pablo Berger offers a gothic, black & white treatment of the myth of Snow White.

Torn between loyalty to her elders and her dreams for the future, Columba hatches a secret plan to rescue her young sister from being sold into an arranged marriage.

Renowned for his documentary work, Pat Collins has delivered a remarkable first fiction feature with Silence, a simple, haunting and poetic vision of Ireland which brings to mind few precedents and defies easy categorisation.