The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival

A taut social thriller about a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks who enters the 'Zone' of a wealthy residential estate, and the violence that ensues.

A sensitive ten-year-old, Thiago is loved deeply by his mother, but her implied infidelity sees him unwillingly drawn into a secret.

An exceptionally timely film about a couple in Manila who foster orphans ready to be placed with wealthy foreign families.

Based on the autobiography of the Hungarian psychiatrist and writer Géza Csáth, a work of disturbing power.

A portrait of Ma Ke, a Chinese fashion designer, her struggle against haute couture, leading to a paradoxical success in Paris Fashion Week.

Alex, a petty pick-pocket, meets Sara and together they embark upon something altogether more dangerous, in this poetic examination of marginality and delinquency.

Three mismatched strangers meet on an online suicide website and begin a strange road journey together.

A Southern Gothic-tinged tale of a family feud, and three brothers who don't even have proper names.

In this stunningly realised science-fiction anime, an elite team of US commandos infiltrate an an isolated Japan to investigate its bio-robotics programme.

Ten vignettes of mystery, suspense, sadness and humour: this may be Fliegauf's most experimantal work yet, but it's also both accessible and mesmerisingly beautiful.

Though Ma Wu-Jia would sacrifice almost anything for his brother, some still see him as a borderline delinquent: he has tough choices to make in this engrossing and morally challenging film.

A witty and engaging documentary about anti-mosquito measures in the town of Belene, and the related problems of life in post-Communist Bulgaria.

The story of a man who thinks he's on a straight road but finds - too late? - that it's actually quite crooked.

No-good Nishioka and his slovenly girlfriend Miyuki shatter the peace of Matsugane with their hunt for hidden treasure, but they have to reckon with local cop Kotaro in this wonderful wonderful Japanese black comedy.

Three individuals each search for the thing they are missing, in this quietly rapturous debut feature from China.

Wayward adolescent Stevie has to find find her own way through the wreckage of her parents' lives.

Nicolas Philibert catches up with the villagers he cast thirty years ago, in his first film since Être et avoir... warm, wise, funny and philosophical filmmaking.

A hypnotically cinematic meditation on life and all its absurdities from Israeli writers Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen.

Laura Dunn's debut doc takes a refreshingly lyrical approach to the environmental devastation caused by rampant real estate and industrial planning.