25 features. 77 countries. 14 cinemas. 12 days. One Festival.

A bold and beguiling cinematic adventure on a truly epic scale structured across three parts and six very different narrative episodes.

A Palestinian drama following a father and son around Nazareth amid preparations for a family wedding.

Collaborators Agnès Varda and JR traverse the countryside in a cine-van documenting French working-class life.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s epic romance is a dreamlike journey through a continent divided by World War II.

Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Berlin Golden Bear winner is a bold, quietly provocative drama about one woman struggling with her fear of intimacy.

A dance rehearsal turns into a series of traumatic scenes after a bad trip on LSD.

Bouchra Khalili’s meditation on revolutionary histories considers the poet Jean Genet’s secret 1970 visit to the United States at the invitation of the Black Panther Party.

A bold and beguiling cinematic adventure on a truly epic scale structured across three parts and six very different narrative episodes.

A graphic animation of lives intertwined by sex, drugs and corruption in Iran’s capital.

A small US town relives a trauma from the past in a dazzling new documentary by acclaimed Kate Plays Christine director Robert Greene.

The third feature from acclaimed director Josephine Decker is a jazz-infused fever dream that tackles head-first the thorny themes of cultural production and appropriation.

The personal story of British rapper and activist M.I.A., from Tamil resistance politics to pop.

These shorts explore what is acceptable behaviour within the domestic, family space.

Join Timo Tjahjanto, one of Indonesian cinema’s rising genre filmmakers, for a hair-raising journey into the heart of the supernatural.

Self-proclaimed musical genius Chilly Gonzales is charismatic, complicated, conflicted and bursting with talent in this invigorating documentary.

Made by and starring disfigured people, Aaron Schimberg’s dextrous, darkly comedic film-within-a-film makes you think about cinematic representation without offering simple resolutions.

Stunning and surreal, this hybrid documentary finds a group of hotel staff reflecting on their life, hopes and dreams in a deserted Egyptian holiday resort.

After Pinochet’s fall, three youngsters drive up to a woodland commune below the Andes. The trip finds them questioning their life in this woozily gorgeous evocation of a Chilean summer.

A visceral and captivating critique of masculinity revolving around the toxic relationship between a dog groomer and a former boxer.

In this astonishingly personal film, Richard Billingham delves into his Black Country upbringing to recreate visceral family memories and desperate living in Thatcher’s Britain.

Welcome to Ladyworld, a shadowy dwelling where tensions run high and nothing is ever quite what it seems.

If the cinematic canon is dominated by male directors, how can we respond to it? With an epic series comprised of brilliant films by female filmmakers.

Hikaru Toda’s involving documentary reveals the hidden side of Japanese society, highlighting the diverse human-rights work done by the country’s first LGBT law firm.

Mastery, showmanship and the art of filming tennis are laid bare in an entertaining, innovative archive documentary that’s like no sports film you’ve seen.

Gael García Bernal stars in this dazzlingly enjoyable heist thriller about an ambitious plan to loot one of the World’s most famous museums.

Actor-turned-director Lila Avilés provides an engaging, behind-closed-doors look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels.

In this powerful account of the struggles of banned writer Sergei Dovlatov, Aleksey German Jr. provides an unusual insight into the literary world of Soviet Russia.

In the fluid space between reality and fiction, director Adina Pintilie explores sexuality and intimacy.

25 features. 77 countries. 14 cinemas. 12 days. One Festival.

A bold and beguiling cinematic adventure on a truly epic scale structured across three parts and six very different narrative episodes.

A Palestinian drama following a father and son around Nazareth amid preparations for a family wedding.

Collaborators Agnès Varda and JR traverse the countryside in a cine-van documenting French working-class life.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s epic romance is a dreamlike journey through a continent divided by World War II.

Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Berlin Golden Bear winner is a bold, quietly provocative drama about one woman struggling with her fear of intimacy.

A dance rehearsal turns into a series of traumatic scenes after a bad trip on LSD.

Bouchra Khalili’s meditation on revolutionary histories considers the poet Jean Genet’s secret 1970 visit to the United States at the invitation of the Black Panther Party.

A bold and beguiling cinematic adventure on a truly epic scale structured across three parts and six very different narrative episodes.

A graphic animation of lives intertwined by sex, drugs and corruption in Iran’s capital.

A small US town relives a trauma from the past in a dazzling new documentary by acclaimed Kate Plays Christine director Robert Greene.

The third feature from acclaimed director Josephine Decker is a jazz-infused fever dream that tackles head-first the thorny themes of cultural production and appropriation.

The personal story of British rapper and activist M.I.A., from Tamil resistance politics to pop.

These shorts explore what is acceptable behaviour within the domestic, family space.

Join Timo Tjahjanto, one of Indonesian cinema’s rising genre filmmakers, for a hair-raising journey into the heart of the supernatural.

Self-proclaimed musical genius Chilly Gonzales is charismatic, complicated, conflicted and bursting with talent in this invigorating documentary.

Made by and starring disfigured people, Aaron Schimberg’s dextrous, darkly comedic film-within-a-film makes you think about cinematic representation without offering simple resolutions.

Stunning and surreal, this hybrid documentary finds a group of hotel staff reflecting on their life, hopes and dreams in a deserted Egyptian holiday resort.

After Pinochet’s fall, three youngsters drive up to a woodland commune below the Andes. The trip finds them questioning their life in this woozily gorgeous evocation of a Chilean summer.

A visceral and captivating critique of masculinity revolving around the toxic relationship between a dog groomer and a former boxer.

In this astonishingly personal film, Richard Billingham delves into his Black Country upbringing to recreate visceral family memories and desperate living in Thatcher’s Britain.

Welcome to Ladyworld, a shadowy dwelling where tensions run high and nothing is ever quite what it seems.

If the cinematic canon is dominated by male directors, how can we respond to it? With an epic series comprised of brilliant films by female filmmakers.

Hikaru Toda’s involving documentary reveals the hidden side of Japanese society, highlighting the diverse human-rights work done by the country’s first LGBT law firm.

Mastery, showmanship and the art of filming tennis are laid bare in an entertaining, innovative archive documentary that’s like no sports film you’ve seen.

Gael García Bernal stars in this dazzlingly enjoyable heist thriller about an ambitious plan to loot one of the World’s most famous museums.

Actor-turned-director Lila Avilés provides an engaging, behind-closed-doors look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels.

In this powerful account of the struggles of banned writer Sergei Dovlatov, Aleksey German Jr. provides an unusual insight into the literary world of Soviet Russia.

In the fluid space between reality and fiction, director Adina Pintilie explores sexuality and intimacy.