It’s only a feature film, and it’s shot in black and white, but City of Life and Death is an intense, indelible experience.
Trapero looks at the culture in a small Argentinean prison showing life in the moment.
This is a haunting and sometimes upsetting film – with little dialogue but great authenticity and power.
Martel shows the mentality of people complicit in Argentina’s repression and ‘disappearances’.
The emotion is raw and the message simple: the ‘war on cancer’ is a hoax.
This documentary raises the bar in not only looking good, but in putting it all in context.
A film about how far we know and trust others, and how other people make us who we are, partly through the stories we hear.
Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels
In a small village in Germany, just before the First World War, a doctor is severely injured when a hidden tripwire pulls down his horse.
Tulpan is the daughter of the only nearby family and Asa thinks he’s in love with her. Sadly for him, she doesn’t fancy Asa, whose ears, she says, are too big.
An eye opening account of the truth behind the declining bee population
Different in every way: Ramin Bahrani's brilliant Goodbye Solo.
A film that gets inside the mind and feelings of a young person deeply at odds with the world. Written and directed by Andrea Arnold.
The reality of indigenous life in the Amazon. Directed and co-written by Marco Bechis
At a new age festival in Sweden, a group of people who’ve never met before explore tree-hugging, sweat lodges, shamanism, tantric sex.
A road movie cum Western. Or, rather, it's a railroad movie and the 'West' - where innumerable migrants are headed on railroad wagons - is more accurately the 'North', the US.
This is the story of ‘Joshua’, an underground video journalist. By Anders Ostergaard
This film documents the corporate chicanery and disinformation that has followed since the Exxon tanker dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound.
US documentary-maker Liz Canner takes on Big Pharma over the creation and marketing of a disease called ‘female sexual dysfunction’.
A gritty, uncomfortable offering from Renzo Martens that brought outraged responses from some of the NGO and media people in the audience.