The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival

A stylish corporate thriller. A journalist turned headhunter becomes entangled in a multinational power.

Brillante Mendoza's Cannes prize-winner (Best Director) chronicles a young police cadet's horrified realisation that he's about to become an accessory to murder.

Marc Recha's latest feature is a contemporary fable of a teenager caught between a dying way of life in the country and the possibilities offered by the laws and social conventions of a more wily city existence.

Mandy Stein's brilliantly realised documentary presents the history of CBGB, featuring contributions from employees, punters and the artists who played there.

Argentine filmmakers Martín Rejtman and Federico León cast their caustic eye on a child acting coach who shares the secrets of his successes.

The Chinese are the only pork-eaters in Muslim Indonesia, and a pig provides the central metaphor in a kaleidoscopic account of the fraught Chinese-Indonesian experience.

A portrait of the artist known simply as Trimpin, a sonic experimenter, a combination of inventor, engineer and composer.

A daring and inventive slice of slacker cinema, a fish-out-of-water story that will leave you unsure whether to laugh or despair...

Hong Sang-Soo's latest wry, comic bulletin from the sex-war centres on a middle-aged man who encounters two married women - and has two very different experiences.

Hitchcock, doppelgangers, the Cold War and American TV: a complex, conceptual and very enjoyable brew from artist/film-maker Johan Grimonprez.

In Pan Jianlin's pugnacious indie feature a young deliveryman in Beijing, desperately trying to pay his father's hospital bills, decides to sell one of his own kidneys on the black market.

Pema Tseden's Tibetan road movie centres on the search for actors to star in a traditional Buddhist opera; a beautiful film about a rapidly changing society, about dying traditions, about spiritual confusions... and about fragile hearts.

Julien Temple's latest conceptual rock documentary puts the case for Dr Feelgood, as 'four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten's anti-Christ'.

Inspired by a tabloid news story, Ho Yuhang's tale of the illicit affair between a confused 23-year-old and an underage high-school girl is a kind of modern Malaysian film noir.

Jan Němec's 'auto-documentary' recounts the story of how he filmed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and smuggled the footage out of the country.

Twenty years after the death of a dear friend, the filmmaker re-traces a ghostly journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway to investigate how images of the past can invade the present.

An inventive post-modern thriller from Argentina's new avant-garde wave weaves together a series of intricate plotlines in a tale of historical intrigue, forgery, political legacies and sexual liaisons where we can never be sure of who or what to believe.

A triptych of digitally-shot stories from East Asian directors, linked by the motif of the home-coming outsider. Hong Sang-Soo, Naomi Kawase and Lav Diaz contribute funny, touching and surreal episodes, respectively.

Family relations and fairy stories become intertwined in a charming fantasy for ‘adults with children'.

Almost a Vietnamese Les Liaisons dangereuses, Bui Thac Chuyen's elegant film about convoluted sexual relationships is a very grown-up song of innocence and experience.