60th BFI London Film Festival

A sex worker solicits older men in public parks by offering them bottles of Bacchus energy drink in this wonderful funny and sad Korean melodrama.

This riotous documentary about the American living-legend photographer Robert Frank goes far beyond your traditional bio-doc, taking an impassioned look at the artist’s creative process.

A selection of films that show how coming of age can be a scary experience.

Documentary filmmaker Ruth Beckermann brings contemporary romance to the historical correspondence between postwar poets and lovers Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.

A mesmerising combination of travelogue, mysticism and documentary from Spanish director Oliver Laxe, as a young man goes on a mission in the Atlas Mountains.

North American Gold Rush history comes alive through rediscovered silent movies, reconstructed to reveal lost silent movie stars in the layers of decaying nitrate stock.

A meditative collage of film, photographic and audio materials captured on the set of David Lynch’s iconic masterpiece.

What happens when a life of crime offers more opportunity than living an honest life? It’s a challenge Malian bus driver Ladji faces in this superb drama.

Films whose protagonists walk the line between right and wrong. Some just do it for the buzz, others out of sheer desperation.

Julie Dash’s groundbreaking Daughters of the Dust remains urgent and poetic and continues to resonate, most recently inspiring Beyoncé’s Lemonade.

A single mother must protect her daughter from a mysterious spectral figure in this modern retelling of an old Czech folk tale.

A prison guard finds himself drawn to the gallows when the hangman needs a new apprentice.

A rare documentary insight into the birth and rapid growth of a political party whose mantra is to challenge corruption in the world’s largest democracy.

In a dystopian Arab world, a small group of survivors are infiltrated by two visitors, sparking a deadly game where only one shall be chosen worthy.

Films that span the globe, highlighting activism, revolution, misguided patriotism, the refugee experience and war. From Syria to the Sahara and even an English council estate, we’re all on the front-line in today’s world.

Produced by Jia Zhangke, this matter-of-fact ghost story follows a father and his son in contemporary China, where spirits sometimes show up unannounced.

The thrilling directorial debut of actor Raúl Arévalo is a 70s-infused contemporary urban western-cum-crime drama set in contemporary Madrid.

A pulsating journey through the electronic urban musical underground of Africa that looks at how the new sounds are defining a generation, from the team behind Black Power Mixtape (LFF2011).

Ulrich Seidl sets his crosshairs on Austrians trophy hunting in Nambia. Dark, absorbing and ultimately quite sinister.

This taut, naturalistic, prize-winning drama about a dutiful son on the brink of an arranged marriage speaks volumes about Tunisia today.

Filmed in a walk-in service for asylum seekers in an hospital near Paris, this timely documentary captures with great humanity dozens of personal stories.

Neneh Cherry, director Mark Cousins and cinematographer Christopher Doyle create an inventive docu-style fiction and love song to the Swedish city.

A trailblazer in the field of immersive film, the Australian artist presents her first foray into virtual reality, the dazzling, devastating Collisions.

A thoughtful and complex portrait of juvenile delinquent women at the extreme margins of Iranian society, by veteran documentarian Mehrdad Oskouei.

Ariane Labed and Soko star in this stylish and formally precise examination of intense barely-repressed misogyny in the military.

French writer-director Eugène Green brings his unique vision to this entrancing mix of coming-of-age tale and social satire, as a young man seeks his father.

A daring and moving story about an inspirational schoolboy who aims to restore his parents’ belief in themselves and in the Indian nation.

A female-directed and rare film from Niger, about a privileged young woman who comes back to her village after studying in Paris to discover the truth of the relationships between women and men in her society.

Jorge Caballero's deeply moving documentary about a mother caring for her gravely ill daughter in a Colombian hospital.

A struggling voice actor in New York turns to murder in this blackly comic psychodrama from Spanish director Carles Torras.

Vitaly Mansky’s documentary journey through Ukraine visits members of his own family to show the reality behind the headlines in this divided country.

Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong (Mundane History) returns with a mesmerising and innovative treatise on memory, politics and cinema.

A mystical voyage in Brazil in the company of the fearless Serbian artist, Marina Abramović in search of emotional healing. Not for the faint-hearted.

Amat Escalante follows up his acclaimed Cannes winner Heli with an arresting social drama-cum-sci-fi enigma that defies categorisation.