Limelight

Empathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.

Adaptation of war reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski’s most famous book mixes hyper-realistic animation, documentary, hallucinatory impressions and literary soul searching.

In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.

Dancer Qiao and gangster Bin’s violent love story plays out from 2001 to 2017 in a rapidly changing China.

Julian Schnabel’s portrait of the latter years of Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe), in which he wrestles with his art, illness and friendships.

Melancholy contemplation on the elapse of time mixes costume drama with dance. After a 1903 Henry James novella.

Summer 1994: two Scottish teens share a final night out together before life sends them in different directions.

Tortured graphic novelist drowns her days in Amsterdam’s Red Light District in vodka, unwittingly coming into conflict with criminals.

A single father doesn’t understand his teenage daughters – and the feeling is mutual. Disarming film featuring Bouli Lanners about rolling with the punches and discovering anew.

Martin de Vries walks the pilgrims’ way to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain, wondering all the while why.

Twelve-year-old Zain takes his parents to court. His complaint: they brought him into the world.

An ecstatic, 90-minute, drink and drug-fuelled dance in a deserted school building. Gaspar Noé sends his regards.

A modern-day, intimate Western in which a mother and her estranged son try to make up in the middle of Kyrgyzstan.

This equally intoxicating and critical take on professional cycling makes the competitive, destructive lives of the pro cyclists almost physically tangible.

Young London mother Jade is scarred for life following an acid attack. Powerful portrait with a beautiful lead role by newcomer Vicky Knight.

Grotesque vignettes from the hell that is eastern Ukraine – war is peace; life increasingly seems like death.

Nimble comedy drama where Olivier Assayas (Après mai, Personal Shopper) criticises a generation of French intellectuals struggling to move with the times.

A sparkling Gloria Bell (Julianne Moore) starts an uneasy romance with the vulnerable Arnold (John Turturro). Shot-for-shot remake of Lelio’s own Gloria.

Super sharp thriller with Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skårsgard as two Wall Street geeks with a bizarre yet lucrative plan. Closing film.

When a Chinese building worker disappears without trace in Singapore, an overtired detective is called in to find out what happened.

A fable of contemporary Italy in which the endless patience of the innocent Lazzaro is sorely tried.

Punky biopic about the legendary band Kino and the Leningrad underground music scene in the early 1980s. Full of surrealistic interludes and rebellious energy.

A fascinating mix of native drama and hard-boiled crime film about the age-old Colombian Waayu people, who are being destroyed by the drug trade.

Shortly before an important competition, a female bodybuilder is confronted with the son she hasn’t seen in years. Her world shifts.

Portrait of the legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin (1956-2012), who reported on wars from the inside for 30 years, but it broke her inside.

Romeo and Juliet, but in Kenya and with two Juliets. A sparkling adventure about Kena and Ziki fighting for their love.

In shades of grey, the feature debut by British photographer Richard Billingham deals with his childhood in drab tenements outside Birmingham.

Darkly funny crime thriller and a vivisection of the Argentinian national psyche in 1975, the year before Jorge Videla’s military coup.

You can deny a pregnancy for a long time, but not forever. Surprisingly mature feature debut about an unmarried Moroccan girl who suddenly becomes a mother.

Comedy about a TV employee who tries to influence a romantic soap manages to capture the Arab-Israeli conflict in a surprisingly witty way.

Satirical drama about superstar Celeste (Natalie Portman) who is famous thanks to a terrible incident and who symbolises a society in moral decline.