24 City Jia Zhangke mixes reminiscence and performance in his cool, measured, moving look at the changing fortunes of a Chinese factory-turned-shopping mall Drama-documentary 2008 107 mins Jia Zhangke Las acacias Pablo Giorgelli's debut is a slow, touching Argentinian road-movie about a quiet trucker warming to a woman and child he reluctantly gives a lift to Road movie 2011 83 mins Pablo Giorgelli The Arbor Clio Barnard's film about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar mixes reconstruction, interviews (performed by actors) and scenes from the plays. Biopic 2010 90 mins Clio Barnard The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the First World War is one of the finest films of the British silent era. War 1927 106 mins Walter Summers Blancanieves Pablo Berger’s imaginative black-and-white ‘silent’ movie relocates the story of Snow White to 1920s Spain – complete with bullfighting dwarfs Drama Fantasy 2011 105 mins Pablo Berger Brick Lane Sarah Gavron’s subtle and intelligent adaptation of Monica Ali’s acclaimed novel charts the experiences of a Bangladeshi woman in London. Drama 2007 97 mins Sarah Gavron Bullet Boy Ashley Walters impresses in the hard-hitting Hackney drama that’s still one of the best of Britain’s black urban crime films. Drama 2005 86 mins Saul Dibb Dodes'Ka-Den Akira Kurosawa’s first colour film is an eccentric and joyous account of a group of disparate people living in a city dump. Drama 1970 140 mins Akira Kurosawa Dogtooth Yorgos Lanthimos' scary, witty tale of a dysfunctional Greek family is original, ingenious and sadly relevant as a study of parent-child relationships Drama 2009 93 mins Yorgos Lanthimos Elena Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Loveless) relates a taut, caustic tale of need and greed leading to desperate deeds; a bleak and brilliant study of contemporary Russian mores. Drama 2011 105 mins Andrey Zvyagintsev Film socialisme Jean-Luc Godard’s acerbic and disorienting essay on the decline of Western civilisation, shot aboard the famously grounded cruise ship, the Costa Concordia. Animation & Artists Moving Image 2010 97 mins Jean-Luc Godard A Hijacking Tobias Lindholm’s thriller refreshes the genre as a ship's cook, Somali pirates and a CEO negotiate an endgame. Thriller 2012 103 mins Tobias Lindholm Hors Satan A mysterious figure strolls around a French coastal town offering a bizarre and violent path to salvation, in this controversial shocker from Bruno Dumont. Drama 2011 105 mins Bruno Dumont How I Ended This Summer Alexei Popogrebski's taut psychological drama depicts two Arctic meteorologists (a veteran and a novice); secrets, lies and isolation take their toll Drama 2010 124 mins Alexei Popogrebsky The Hunt Mads Mikkelsen stars in a distressing examination of a false indictment, and the collective hysteria that ensues, in this electrifying drama from Festen director Thomas Vinterberg. Drama 2012 111 mins Thomas Vinterberg I Am Belfast Mark Cousins’ dreamlike evocation of his home city discovers a capital of rich history and startling beauty. Documentary Fantasy 2016 84 mins Mark Cousins Immoral Tales Walerian Borowczyk presents four stories of sexual taboos throughout the ages, in his highly controversial classic of 1970s erotic cinema. Anthology 1974 103 mins Walerian Borowczyk In the Fog A suspected Nazi collaborator and his Partisan abductors join forces to escape pursuing German forces, in this vibrantly shot war drama. War 2012 123 mins Sergei Loznitsa Les Invisibles French gay men and women in their 60s and 70s talk about their lives in Sébastien Lifshitz’s documentary. Documentary 2012 112 mins Sébastien Lifshitz Kelly + Victor In modern Liverpool, a couple meet and begin a transgressive, sexually charged affair set against a background of crime and encroaching danger. Drama 2013 90 mins Kieran Evans The Killing of a Chinese Bookie John Cassavetes’s uncompromising character study of a gangster, with Ben Gazzara as the small-time club owner whose life begins to spin out of control. Gangster 1976 109 mins John Cassavetes Love Me till Monday A graduate in a dead-end office job searches for happiness in this fresh and funny British comedy. Comedy 2013 89 mins Mother Cult Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s (The Host, Snowpiercer) fourth feature is a startlingly original and thrilling account of the limits of maternal devotion. Thriller 2009 129 mins Bong Joon-ho My Ain Folk The second part of the revered Bill Douglas Trilogy follows Jamie as he ends up in a children’s home. Drama 1974 55 mins Bill Douglas The Nine Muses John Akomfrah mixes archive material, literary and musical quotations and newly shot silent footage in a wry, rapt meditation on memory and migration. Documentary 2012 92 mins John Akomfrah Of Good Report Disturbing but deeply stylish South African drama about a teacher who becomes obsessed with an under-age pupil in his class, with tragic consequences. Drama 2013 110 mins Jahmil Xolani Thandikhaya Qubeka Pasolini Willem Dafoe plays the controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in this dark, daring drama about the director’s final days, from Abel Ferrara. Biopic 2014 84 mins Abel Ferrara Red Road Andrea Arnold’s highly acclaimed film, winner of top prizes at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, is a haunting drama about a woman confronting past demons. Thriller 2006 110 mins Andrea Arnold Shell In a remote part of Scotland, teenager Shell develops an intense relationship with her reclusive father. Drama 2013 87 mins Scott Graham Short Term 12 A care-worker is confronted by a troubled teen whose case history provokes an unwelcome reminder of her own concealed and traumatic past. Drama 2013 97 mins Destin Daniel Cretton Silence Pat Collins' film, following a sound recordist around western Ireland in an intriguing mix of fiction and documentary, makes us really look and listen Drama Documentary 2012 84 mins Pat Collins A Simple Life A wealthy film executive reconnects with the nanny who raised him, in a touching drama from the great humanist of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui. Drama 2011 118 mins Ann Hui On-Wah Trans-Europ-Express This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French New Wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant and Marie-France Pisier. Thriller 1966 95 mins Alain Robbe-Grillet Stockholm My Love Neneh Cherry, director Mark Cousins and cinematographer Christopher Doyle's exquisite love song to the Swedish city. Drama Animation & Artists Moving Image 2016 84 mins Mark Cousins Tulpan Sergei Dvortsevoy's feature debut is a deliciously droll tale of a Kazakh sailor out to win a wife and set himself up as a shepherd on the steppes. Comedy 2008 99 mins Sergey Dvortsevoy Underground The BFI National Archive restoration of one of Anthony Asquith's finest silent films set in London's Underground, with a new score. Romance 1928 93 mins Anthony Asquith Unrelated On a Tuscan break a fortysomething woman finds herself drawn to the company of a group of partying teens, including a young Tom Hiddleston (in one of his earliest roles). Drama 2008 96 mins Joanna Hogg
