Cesária Évora

Brilliantly mixing archive film and music, Liverpool-born director Terence Davies reflects with wit and wisdom on a times of change, for good or ill

The incredible story of a band you may never have heard of but whose sound has influenced generations with their irresistible rhythms and message of peace.

A riveting and all-encompassing portrait of the iconic German filmmaker.

Engrossing tribute to London’s legendary Scala cinema, aptly subtitled: Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits.

The psychedelic physicality of this mortal coil – journey into the systems that comprise the human body in this fascinating sensory experience.

A beautifully textured study revealing the rich and troubled private life of the writer behind Carol.

Jean-René is a retired workman who has lived in France since emigrating from Réunion Island as a teenager. Breaking decades of silence, he recounts his story to his daughter, filmmaker Erika Etangsalé.

As peace in South Sudan hangs in the balance of a tenuous agreement, a mother returns from exile with her two daughters, seeking high office.

A documentary that traces a cohort of 16 Ghanaian women who came of age in the 1960s and 70s as Ghana passed through tumultuous political upheavals. The film is interwoven with interviews, animation and archival footage.

Emma (Clarisse Albrecht) an Afro-European woman escapes arrest in the Dominican Republic and finds shelter with a group of parentless children living in a dangerous district of the country's capital.

When insurgents attack a wedding party and abduct a group of villagers in north-eastern Nigeria, a young milkmaid tries to rescue her sister, and is shocked by what she finds.

When Esther and Kady, two teenage girls from Burkina Faso, arrive at a refuge for migrants on the edge of the Sahara desert, they meet fellow travellers dreaming of a future abroad, as well as those returning with tales of failure and trauma.

Jean Cocteau’s ravishingly restored 1946 film is a cinematic classic. “Five stars. [This] magical exploration of the fairytale is a compelling and bizarre masterpiece” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Magical retelling of the Orpheus myth by poet, playwright, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau.

A life-size blow-up doll comes to life and falls in love with a video store clerk in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s haunting, melancholy meditation on urban alienation.

Hailed as ‘Poland’s first LGBT film’, Tomasz Wasilewski’s striking drama follows a champion swimmer whose gay relationship causes ripples.

A shameless woman finds her new lover’s son wants to divide them in this cringe comic drama starring Maggie O’Neill.

Godard's playful tribute to the Hollywood pulp crime movies of the 1940s, executed with typically Gallic cool.