Loosely based on the novel by Martin Amis, this bold, surgical probe into our capacity for zoning out on genocide is chilling indeed. Rudolf, Hedwig and their children live a pastoral idyll, in a bright villa with a cultivated garden full of roses and hothouse fruit. But the backdrop is a high wall with chimneys beyond, and behind the birdsong are other persistent but indistinguishable sounds. Rudolf Höss is the commandant of Auschwitz. Eschewing the conventions of Holocaust drama,…

  From Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro), a tale of lost love and an ethereal spiritual journey. Arriving in Riparbella, Tuscany, in the early ’80s, Arthur, a melancholic British archaeologist in a grimy linen suit, is fresh out of prison. Yearning for his dead lover, the daughter of a local aristocrat, he falls back in with a group of tombaroli (tomb robbers), a rowdy, Fellini-esque crew of twentysomethings who pilfer the area’s ancient burial sites for Etruscan treasures to sell…

  Filmed in Hereford and Monmouth. A film made by and with the filmmakers’ family, reflecting the familial narrative of the film. All things buried will resurface. A terminally ill archeologist’s world is thrown into turmoil when forced to exhibit the 2000-year-old body he excavated with his former student lover. As he desperately connects with his son, his relationship with his daughter deteriorates. He concocts an ‘archaeology of the living’ and enlists the help of a young guard at the…

  A bold fiction feature debut from Abbruzzese, stars the magnetic Franz Rogowski in an odyssey that crosses continents and identities. Alienated from his homeland, young Belarusian Aleksei wants to become a French citizen. After a hazardous journey through Europe, he enlists in the Foreign Legion. Fate propels him into the Niger Delta where fearless, charismatic revolutionary Jomo is battling the insidious oil conglomerates that threaten his community’s future. While Aleksei seeks a new family in the Legion, Jomo dreams…

    Kelly Reichardt’s fourth collaboration with Michelle Williams is a comedy about a sculptor on the verge of a career breakthrough juggling creativity with the messiness of life. Lizzy, a notably unglamourised Williams, is a figurative artist under pressure to prepare for an exhibition in Portland. Through the quiet, chaotic environment of her home studio as she works, and the tetchy, funny interactions with her parents, her more brilliant brother and her breezy landlord, fellow artist Jo – who…

  Set in Senegal, part-fable, part-love story, a marriage is tested by a devastating turn of events that challenges the whole village’s way of life. Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. Seeking a home of their own, they decide to live apart from their families. When Adama informs the local council that he won’t accept his blood duty as future chief, the whole community is disrupted. There’s no rain for their parched village, and their actions are blamed. Where…

    From Vietnamese director Trãn Anh Hùng (The Scent of Green Papaya) comes a mouthwatering ‘gastromance’, superbly concocted by leads Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel. France, 1885: Celebrated gourmet Dodin lives on an idyllic Loire Valley estate alongside Eugénie, his cook for over 20 years. Adapted from a 1924 novel by French epicure Marcel Rouff, this intimate, humorous and sensual story about love and food is executed with detail and practical precision but without a hint of sickliness. Opening…