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 Amour Fou Jessica Hausner’s long-awaited follow-up to Lourdes is a devilish anti-Rom-Com in which a German poet seeks mates for a suicide pact. Period drama Comedy 2014 92 mins Jessica Hausner Amores perros Alejandro González Iñárritu's (Birdman, The Revenant) gripping debut feature is a savagely brilliant triptych around the theme of animalistic desires. Drama 2000 148 mins Alejandro González Iñárritu The Host Bong Joon-ho's barnstorming yet highly original monster movie follows an eccentric family's attempts to rescue the daughter snatched by a huge amphibious creature. Science Fiction Action and Adventure 2006 115 mins Bong Joon-ho 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 King of Escape A film about tractors, aphrodisiacs and forbidden love from Alain Guiraudie, the Cannes award-winning director of Stranger by the Lake. Comedy 2009 90 mins Alain Guiraudie Love and Death on Long Island John Hurt stars in Richard Kwietniowski’s comedy of fame and obsession about an older man (Hurt) who becomes infatuated with a young Hollywood actor (Jason Priestley), and proceeds to track him down. Comedy 1998 89 mins Richard Kwietniowski Land and Freedom Ken Loach’s passionate war drama follows an idealistic young Liverpudlian (Ian Hart) who fights for the international brigade during the Spanish Civil War. War 1995 105 mins Ken Loach Distant Voices, Still Lives Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory. Biopic Historical drama 1988 84 mins Terence Davies Fear Eats the Soul Fassbinder’s international breakthrough, this unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power. Melodrama 1974 93 mins Rainer Werner Fassbinder Symptoms The official British Palme d'Or entry at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, Symptoms is a sophisticated modern gothic horror film exploring the themes of sexual repression and psychosis. Drama 1976 91 mins José R. Larraz The Shout Cannes’ Grand Jury Prize was awarded to this unnerving drama about a man who claims to be able to kill people with a ‘terror shout’ learned from an Aboriginal shaman. Drama 1978 83 mins Jerzy Skolimowski Breathless [À bout de souffle] Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature, an insouciant and iconoclastic crime film that paved the way for the French New Wave. Film noir 1960 90 mins Jean-Luc Godard Before the Revolution Bernardo Bertolucci's beautifully operatic film celebrates the passion and ideology of the 1960s, winner of the Cannes Critics' Week prize in 1964. Drama 1964 107 mins Bernardo Bertolucci Woman of the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara's mystifying, serene and provocative fable about an entomologist who becomes trapped in a young widow’s desert shack. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1964 147 mins Hiroshi Teshigahara This Sporting Life Lindsay Anderson’s fantastic first feature masterfully dissects the brutal life struggles of a rough-edged rugby footballer on and off the field. Sport 1963 129 mins Lindsay Anderson The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Werner Herzog’s poetic account of the historical character who captivated 19th-century Nuremberg after emerging from isolation after 16 years in a cellar. Biopic 1974 109 mins Werner Herzog Young Soul Rebels The Queen's Silver Jubilee beats to the sounds of Funkadelic, Sylvester and the O'Jays in Isaac Julien’s feature debut. Drama 1991 105 mins Isaac Julien
