Madeline’s Madeline (15)
dir: Josephine Decker
Highly original oddity in which a teenager (Helena Howard) finds joy and jeopardy at an experimental theatre company.
Happy as Lazzaro (12A)
dir: Alice Rohrwacher
Folklore meets social commentary in a witty, unpredictable fable about the peasants that time forgot.
Bait (15)
dir: Mark Jenkin
Visually stunning black comedy about a Cornish fisherman battling the threat of extinction.
The Souvenir (15)
dir: Joanna Hogg
Student falls for saturnine mystery man in this barbed love story.
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Monos (15)
dir: Alejandro Landes
Teenage guerrillas fall apart in the mountains. Mica Levi supplies the score of the year.
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Comic noir with Andrew Garfield as a seedy gumshoe. Imaginative and widely misunderstood.
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dir: Mati Diop
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By the Grace of God (15)
dir: François Ozon
Anger, compassion and dynamic storytelling characterise this real-life drama about child abuse in the Catholic church.