The Times BFI London Film Festival

A melancholic, poetic and unromantic documentary portrait of travelling life.

An unconventional love story set in north eastern Brazil brings different worlds into collision as the seventeen-year old protagonist comes to realize that love often means something as banal as buying the object of your affections a television set.

Family portraits don't come much more uncomfortably intimate or emotionally intense than first-time director John Maringouin's firsthand dissection of dysfunction.

A women's story that plays in a country wracked by violence.

Framed as a prison murder mystery, Takashi Miike's extraordinary movie (starring Ryuhei Matsuda and Masanobu Ando) is actually a cosmic meditation on masculinity, not to mention an all-male love story.

The Last Life in the Universe team reunites for an absurdist anti-thriller about the high cost of bad karma: a sous-chef commits a murder to order and finds himself trapped in a labyrinth of deceptions.

Cine-essayist Amir Muhammad goes looking for traces of the outlawed leader of the Communist Party of Malaya and comes back with an acid account of the current state of Malaysia -- and some very funny songs.

A Czech puppet film for 'small kids and clever adults' takes in the story of Tom Thumb, the Devil's temptations, and three hunchbacks from Damascus.

20-year-old Iliac serves a client in a gay 'health club' in Manila, crosscut with his trip home to the sticks for his estranged father's funeral: life, sex and death become inextricably tangled.

Set against a dramatic northern landscape, Father Anatoly leads an idiosyncratic life of penance, with a marvellous performance by Pyotr Mamonov.

Ying Liang's debut (the best Chinese indie of the year) is a tragi-comedy about a stubborn peasant boy going to the big city in search of his absentee father, determined to bring him back or else...

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is the site of more suicides than anywhere else in the world.

A pregnant woman struggles with winter conditions as she tries to cross an unnamed border to be reunited with her boyfriend.

This powerful debut by Milena Andonova examines the lives of three generations of women, the desire for children, and the difficulties of relationships.

Concise, enigmatic drama about a man's disappearance at sea.

Tian Zhuangzhuang's film stars Chang Chen as the legendary go champion Wu Qingyuan; a dreamlike study of a long, hard life spent taming inner demons.

A compelling documentary of intercultural exchange as immigrants are invited into a sleepy town in rural Spain in the hope of addressing problems caused by population depletion.

Two films which illustrate how America has changed over the years, fraying in places, gentrified in others.

A dizzyingly inventive and witty take on life in modern day Casablanca.

A breathtaking documentary following a group of construction workers in Mexico City over two years as they build a second layer onto a key freeway.

Innovative light works with the music of Daniel Menche.