This restrained and powerful short shows how imprisonment doesn’t only affect the inmate.

This pulse-racing nonfiction thriller follows the individuals risking their lives to defect from North Korea and the pastor granting them passage.

Two crocodile men go to a public pool to cool off. It turns out one of them is distinctly more human – and the other is unable to contain his desire.

This delicate, absorbing portrait of motherhood follows a young Black woman caught up in a spiral of institutional disadvantage.

This account of an elderly woman’s nerve-racking journey across Manhattan is a heart-stoppingly sharp indictment of the US healthcare system.

This stirring Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner chronicles the love story of a Chilean couple navigating Alzheimer’s disease.

A maximalist mixtape of videogames, pop music and red paint, at once joyous and disruptive.

An arresting mockumentary about first contact and alien sex, which won the Méliès d’Or prize at Sitges.

This multi-award-winning interactive VR experience shows the rise and fall of an entire civilisation.

A moral thriller set against a nation torn in two, which won the inaugural Un Certain Regard Freedom Prize.

From the Deep South to DC, civil rights pioneer and I Am Not Your Negro subject James Baldwin revisits key sites in the US fight for racial equality.

Hit the town and seek out the next illegal rave in this euphoric, multisensory joyride about the 1980s Acid House movement.

In this surreal and haunting documentary, a Ukrainian filmmaker obsessively sifts through the shrapnel of the MH17 plane crash.

A harrowing yet hypnotic true story from the frontline of North America’s abortion debates, told through hallucinatory episodes.

Political unrest fractures the innocence of childhood in this haunting snapshot of Sri Lanka’s brutal conflict.

Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this film recounts how local musicians banded together with U2 to offer hope to Bosnians in war-torn Sarajevo.

Winner of Rotterdam’s top prize, this moving documentary explores the lives of Cameroonian children at the edge of a war zone.

In this tense coming-of-age drama direct from Cannes Critics’ Week, a teenage boy confronts the political injustice upheld by his mother.

The winner of Venice’s Best Immersive Experience award remembers Taiwan’s political detainees.

Forbidden desire, memory, revolution, and cinema collide in this queer feminist gem from Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

This poetic, visually striking meditation on growing up under apartheid in South Africa is unlike any documentary memoir you’ve seen before.

The rivalry between teenage brothers reaches dangerous heights in Toronto’s 2022 Best Canadian Short winner.

A quest for personal and national healing, based on the experiences of a Khmer Rouge survivor.

A series of formally daring vignettes about the absurdity and menace of state control in Iran, laced with both scathing irony and glimmers of hope.

What dark secrets are hidden out back, in this stylish and metaphorical mystery?

Activist and filmmaker George Gittoes follows the frontline artists daring to stand up to the Russian invasions of Ukraine and Afghanistan.

Australian filmmaker Margot Nash (We Aim to Please) reimagines her own archival footage for this poetic essay on resistance amid instability.

Mud Crab director David Robinson-Smith returns with a stirring cine-poem about the rental crisis, starring Thom Green (Of an Age).