11 Minutes
Jerzy Skolimowski’s ‘catastrophic thriller’ interweaves the lives of multiple characters during a fateful eleven minutes with unexpected consequences.
Beasts of No Nation
A chilling portrait of the plight of child soldiers, told from the perspective of one young boy.
Cemetery of Splendour
Acclaimed Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns with a typically sublime, lyrical and visually ravishing tale of a unit of soldiers afflicted by a strange malady.
Chevalier
Athina Rachel Tsangari follows Attenberg with a biting and strange dissection of the male ego, featuring six men on a boat.
The Daughter
Ibsen’s ‘The Wild Duck’ is relocated to contemporary rural Australia, but in theatre director Simon Stone’s feature debut it still retains the Norwegian playwright’s powerful bite.
Desierto
The sophomore feature from Jonás Cuarón is an edge-of-the-seat thriller set on the Mexican/American border.
Evolution
A young islander confronts the enigmas of boyhood and the sea in this poetic horror story, the long-awaited second feature by French visionary Lucile Hadžihalilović.
Office
Hong Kong crime director par excellence Johnnie To offers up an equally exuberant, financial-world set musical that has to be seen to be believed.
Room
Jack and Ma live in Room. Now Jack is five-years-old he discovers there may be more to the world.
Son of Saul
A devastating portrait of life in a concentration camp, seen from the extremely subjective perspective of a Sonderkommando, this is a blistering debut from a new Hungarian director.
Sunset Song
Terence Davies returns to the festival with this glorious adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel.
Tangerine
A real-time drama, shot on iPhones in downtown LA and featuring two transsexual hookers in a vengeful mood, this is the ultimate in filmmaking on the fly.
Very Big Shot
Hilarious black comedy about a Beirut drug dealer trying to go legit for the sake of his two brothers finding himself at odds with his crime boss.