Casting our curatorial net far and wide – including treks to Cannes, Toronto, Berlin and Rotterdam – we bring you our biggest ever selection of the latest and most exciting cinema from around the globe. Whether you are looking for something small or epic, here you will find the latest films direct from Cannes as well as prize-winners, curiosities and festival discoveries.
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(Iran, 94 min)
3 women, 3 generations, 3 journeys.… Forty-something single mother Minoo is a product of the Islamic Revolution, a generation of women repressed by changes in law under the new Islamic Republic… More > |
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(France, 105 min)
"Forgiveness is being aware of the suffering of others" - filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve… The feature debut from Mia Hansen-Løve (former critic for Cahiers du Cinéma and actress… More > |
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(New Zealand, 90 min)
"It's a rich and robust story, full of warmth and humour that reflects the changing face of Auckland's southern suburbs today." - producer Rachel Gardner… The debut feature film from Sima Urale… More > |
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(UK, 105 min)
"Chockablock with Cockney hardcases, bent coppers, kinky politicians, shadowy MI5 fixers, black radicals, a Soho sleaze merchant and a bevy of topless birds." - Eye Weekly… Based loosely on the… More > |
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(UK, 93 min)
God is on all sides, but not in Haditha.… On 19 November 2005, US Marines retaliated to a bombing attack on one of their vehicles by massacring 24 Iraqi non-combatants - innocent men, women and… More > |
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(Belgium, The Netherlands, 90 min)
"Rarely has so much emotion and excitement been compressed into 90 minutes of screen time." - Screen International… Ben suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a type of autism that prevents him from… More > |
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(UK, 106 min)
"Jack learns life like a foreign language... [he] tick tocThe Gks between the boy he was and the man he is, and we wait for the hour to strike." - The Guardian… After his released from jail int… More > |
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(Lebanon, France, 95 min)
"Caramel is the idea of sweet and salt, sugary and sour, of the delicious sugar that can burn or hurt you." - filmmaker Nadine Labaki… Sugar, water and lemon juice - for the workers and friends… More > |
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(Russia, 89 min)
"In its lawlessness and chaos, the Russia of 1984 was every bit as grotesque as anything dreamed up in the realms of modernist fiction." - Screen Daily… Set on the eve of Perestroika, Cargo 200… More > |
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(France, 150 min)
"Desplechin's ambitious widescreen tale overflows with inescapable emotion." - Screen International… When Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and her husband assemble their oddball clan - all seemingly s… More > |
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(Portugal, France, 75 min)
Life is the journey, life is the enigma.… At 99 years old, veteran filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira (Belle Toujours, MIFF 07) returns to MIFF with Christopher Columbus - The Enigma, a romanticised … More > |
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(Brazil, 116 min)
"The legend of Cleopatra unfolds through the nuances of Portuguese literature, music and culture." - The Hollywood Reporter… Audacious Brazilian filmmaker Júlio Bressane brings us his vi… More > |
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(Israel, 93 min)
Thirty-three years of lies and deception threaten to unravel as three ex-Mossad agents find themselves unwittingly recalled to duty.… In 1964 three Mossad agents led by Rachel (powerhouse Israe… More > |
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(Mexico, 112 min)
"The desert grows, and woe to him who conceals the desert within him..." - Friedrich Nietzsche… Hot off the success of last year's award-winning La Zona, Rodrigo Plá doesn't put one step… More > |
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(France, Italy, 137 min)
"A masterpiece... ‘cruel ironies' doesn't even begin to describe it." - Time Out London… The latest in Jacques Rivette's series of adaptations of Honore de Balzac's work is a dramatisatio… More > |
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(Czech Republic, UK, 100 min)
“Empties is charming, funny, bittersweet, funny, romantic and ultimately, you guessed it, very funny.” – Toronto International Film Festival… Oscar-winning filmmaker Jan Sver&… More > |
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(Canada, 117 min)
Finding his best friend’s dead body was bad enough. … Then discovering three more of his friends also killed themselves, Josh is left – as a sole survivor of a suicide pact that he … More > |
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(France, 105 min)
“The director paints a contemporary yet timeless world in which the intensity of human feelings is the main distraction.” – Screen International … On assignment, professional … More > |
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(USA, 97 min)
What would you risk for your family? … When her husband vanishes after gambling away the family savings, Ray (Melissa Leo, 21 Grams) is left struggling to care for her boys and make ends meet. … More > |
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(USA, France, Germany, Italy, 111 min)
“Of course this film is a provocation. It is meant as a provocation.” – filmmaker Michael Haneke… In this shot-for-shot remake of his own 1997 feature, Michael Haneke (Hidden,… More > |
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(USA, 110 min)
“Compelling drama about abducted children avoids the heartstrings and goes right for the gut.” – The Hollywood Reporter … The issue of abducted children is dealt with in this … More > |
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(France, Germany, 115 min)
“You can sense [Claude] Chabrol’s wicked grin behind the camera in every sense… the master shows that he has lost none of his youthful energy.” – Toronto International … More > |
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(Italy, 135 min)
Winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. … A sprawling and intensely involving memoir of contemporary life under the shadow of the mafia, Gomorrah is based on a best-… More > |
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(Iran, Japan, 98 min)
“There is no melody more beautiful and eternal than the melody of love” – Persian Poet Hafez… After memorising the Koran and passing his exams, scholar Shams al-Din is elevate… More > |
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(USA, 124 min)
“Honeydripper is set at the intersection of two movements that would change American life forever: civil rights, and rhythm & blues.” – Chicago Sun-Times … Former boogie-w… More > |
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(UK, 96 min)
The body is the last resource for protest. … In 1981 Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican, starved himself to death as a protest against the British government. He died painfully and – in the… More > |
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(Macedonia, 102 min)
“This is a film in search of beauty in uncomfortable places.” – filmmaker Teona Struger Mitevska… Child actor-turned-filmmaker Teona Struger Mitevska shines a light on the pli… More > |
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(Austria, 135 min)
“A masterfully composed drama that explores themes of morality and mortality in a manner that’s squalid, surprising and often transcendent.” – Eye Weekly … Olga is a you… More > |
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(UK, Belgium, 107 min)
“Just when you think you’ve seen every possible variation on the hit-man genre, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh… has fashioned an audacious combination of Old World grace and mode… More > |
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(Hungary, 93 min)
A tragic tale of a little girl lost. … Iska has suffered more in her 12 years than most people do their whole lives. Living at the mouth of one of the world’s worst coalmines, where the a… More > |
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(UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, 96 min)
“It’s also a cruel world, populated by capitalist tools and fools, schemers and dreamers of every stripe, accent and ethnicity.” – The New York Times … The latest film f… More > |
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(Iceland, 94 min)
“You may imagine Iceland to be a slate-gray purgatory; Jar City will outdo your most depressing fantasies.” – Time Out New YorkA murder mystery with a story that’s as chilly a… More > |
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(France, Belgium, 123 min)
“Since he is just anybody, he could be just any bastard.” – filmmaker Jacques Doillon… Camille is in her 20s and already weighed down by the ugliness of reality. With her life… More > |
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(Poland, 117 min)
A monument to one of the darkest secrets of the Soviet era.… For filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, painful events from his own past have been resurrected in Katyn. The film dramatises one of the last ma… More > |
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(Serbia, 80 min)
In this highly original film – is it social docudrama? An ‘acted documentary’? – an immigrant to Germany re-enacts episodes from his own life, in a blindingly charismatic perf… More > |
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(Argentina, 90 min)
“Less an easy criticism of consumer society then it is a poetic attempt to recreate a world through the sole power of images.” – Hollywood Reporter… An entire city has lost it… More > |
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(France, 102 min)
“Bresson meets the Beatles… a WWI drama that unexpectedly breaks into spirited song” – VarietyIn the fall of 1917, Camille (Sylvie Testud) receives a letter from her soldier … More > |
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(Argentina, 83 min)
“A dark exploration of human nature at its basest and most animal-like.” – Hollywood Reporter… A film that is as harsh as the living conditions of farmers on the Argentinean p… More > |
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(Sweden, 114 min)
“One of the strangest, stickiest, and (yes) sweetest horror movies I’ve seen in 10 years.” – CinematicalLiving alone with his mother in a wintry and miserable Stockholm suburb… More > |
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(Argentina, 113 min)
“Leonera [the film’s Spanish title] is a place of transit. It’s the place where the prisoner is retained before she can move on to somewhere else. It is a cell…” &ndash… More > |
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(Belgium, France, Italy, 105 min)
In this cold-blooded scam, only Lorna’s silence can implicate her.Lorna’s Silence is the latest feature from the Dardenne brothers (The Son, MIFF 02; The Child, MIFF 05) who have a proven… More > |
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(Estonia, UK, 86 min)
“My primary wish regarding this film is that, after watching it, people would start paying attention to the things that really matter… like football and shopping.” – filmmake… More > |
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(France, 59 min)
Almost impossible to categorise, Serge Bozon’s first featurette Mods is a warm melange of psychedelic black-comedy, musical and love story – all scored with a groovy 60s soundtrack.Inexpl… More > |
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(Turkey, 92 min)
“Dear love… you are the wide brown valley that I lie on, you are my Marlon and Brando”… In 2003, just before the bombs started falling on Baghdad, fiery Turkish actress Ayca … More > |
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(Canada, UK, Poland, The Netherlands, 134 min)
“Rembrandt is captured in all his joyful, bawdy, self-analyzing ways, prey to passions and capable of real love.” – Variety… Director Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His… More > |
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(Israel, 90 min)
“Kolya locates a spiritual cousin in feel-good crowd-pleaser Noodle.” – Variety… A twice war-widowed flight attendant in her late 30s, Miri enjoys the life of a jetsetter but … More > |
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(Norway, 90 min)
“Bent Hamer’s unique blend of absurdist humour and aching melancholy has never worked better than in O’Horten.” – Screen DailyRailway driver Odd Horten, played by vetera… More > |
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(Uruguay, Brazil, France, 97 min)
The Pope, 50,000 pilgrims, one public toilet.… It’s 1988, and as Pope John Paul II makes his way through South America his journey guides him towards the poverty-stricken Uruguayan border… More > |
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(USA, 77 min)
A stinging comment on the state of a new generation of Chinese youth, from veteran director Wayne Wang (Smoke).… Sasha, a disaffected Chinese girl of 18, comes to San Francisco carrying an unwa… More > |
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(USA, 90 min)
“Leave it to the rabble-rousing instincts of Brian De Palma to drop a homemade bomb into the middle of the Iraq debate.” – Toronto International Film FestivalFilmmaker Brian De Palm… More > |
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(Austria, 121 min)
Whose fault is it if life doesn't go your way?… Ex-prison inmate Alex works in a Vienna brothel, doing dirty jobs for his sleazy boss while having a secret affair with Tamara, one of the prosti… More > |
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(France, 109 min)
“The film is great fun, great pleasure, and great cinema.” – CinemascopeVeteran French New Wave filmmaker Eric Rohmer calls The Romance of Astrea and Celadon his final film at age 8… More > |
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(France, Belgium, 77 min)
“It takes a certain amount of skill, not to mention hubris, to milk laughs out of attempted suicide, severe memory loss, amputated legs and burning homes.” – VarietyFiona and Dom lo… More > |
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(Germany , 79 min)
“The idea just was there… Just a plain sentence: I bet you cannot kill a human being.”… The graduation film of German filmmaker Niels Laupert, Seven Days Sunday is based on a… More > |
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(France, 100 min)
No kiss is innocent.… A chance meeting, a mutual attraction, dinner, entertaining conversation and perhaps a kiss? Not tonight. When Gabriel and Emilie meet, both know that feelings are buildin… More > |
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(Mexico, France, The Netherlands, Germany, 142 min)
"Sometimes cinema isn't cinema at all: it is a revelation. Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light will make you weak with wonder." - Financial TimesSilent Light opens with what is, arguably, the single most r… More > |
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(UK, 75 min)
“An affectionate tribute to cross-cultural friendship and the rapidly changing landscape known as Somers Town” - VarietyLeaving the Midlands behind, 16-year-old Tomo (played by This Is En… More > |
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(Turkey, France, Italy, 109 min)
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.Awarded the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Climates, MIFF 06), featuring his distincti… More > |
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(Poland, 104 min)
“Time to die? Are you crazy?”… Starring the inimitable 91-year-old Danuta Szaflarska, Time To Die is a comical rendering of the everyday routines of an elderly woman as she winds do… More > |
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(The Netherlands, 79 min)
The worlds of a flamboyant diva and a straight-laced bookkeeper collide in a feel-good comedy from Dutch director Paula van der Oest.… Despite sell-out crowds and a string of successful perform… More > |
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(Poland, 96 min)
“A pitch-perfect portrait of working class life in a provincial town and of growing up as the much younger brother of an adored older sister.” – Variety… Stefek and his much o… More > |
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(Germany, 94 min)
“How do children define themselves or rebel against their parents, when the lines separating the generations seem to disintegrate?” – filmmaker Pia MaraisAt 14 years old, Stevie sho… More > |
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(UK, 100 min)
“A brilliantly uncomfortable character study of a woman in her forties still struggling to find her identity.” – The TimesTurning up in the dead of night to her friend’s Itali… More > |
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(USA, 106 min)
“A heartfelt human drama that sneaks up and floors you.” – Rolling StoneMiddle-age college professor Walter Vale is a visitor in his own life. Trapped in a malaise of inertia and de… More > |
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(France, 106 min)
The heartwarming comedy that became the biggest box office smash in French history.In an attempt to cheer up his depressed wife, postal worker Philippe tries to scam a transfer from his comfortable l… More > |
