Limelight

Pools, boats, lounges, arcade games, a summer resort. A young girl bonds with her father.

Marital frustration, a mid-life crisis and a Nietzsche-quoting frog in an animated adaptation of Haruki Murakami.

An alluringly shot tale of repressed desire and unspoken longing set in Salé, Morocco.

Sumptuous biopic chronicling Czech opera composer Josef Mysliveček’s travails and triumphs in Italy.

An engaging policier based on a real-life story of a cold case, corruption and a cover-up.

Turkish film noir delving into politics of sex, gender, community, and management of natural resources.

A tense, fast-paced, intrigue-filled political thriller pitting the secret service against the newly-elected grand imam.

A donkey's journey turns into a severe but kindly vision of humankind at its most wondrously ordinary.

Tilda Swinton movingly incarnates both mother and daughter in this atmospheric film by Joanna Hogg.

A coming-of-age comedy about the misadventures of a wannabe cartoonist in search of an artistic guide.

A priest's journey of (self-)discovery in a strange land becomes one of the year's richest cinema experiences.

When Paul’s promotion is put on hold, he analyses the life choices he has made.

A heartfelt exploration of personal and historical memory through the perspective of a bereaved girl.

Celebrated anime creator Oshii Mamoru's delightfully goofy, live-action tale about four schoolgirls and a vampire.

An affecting, fable-like romantic musical drama about a woman torn between tradition and desire.

Action-packed anti-colonial epic about an underground resistance unit in Cairo in the 1920s.

Lonely teenager magically discovers an empowering community in a therapeutic young-adult fantasy.

A depressed writer sparks an unlikely friendship with his new neighbour, leading to unsettling results.

A flamboyant whodunnit set at a high-fashion hairdressing competition, permeated with dialogue as sharp as a coiffeur’s scissors.

Multi-layered essay on Edvard Munch’s life and art, a surprising mix of classical cinema and formal experiment.

Two couples in defiance of the authorities, by a filmmaker subject to a ban.

A splendid family chronicle of 20th-century work and migration told in inventive stop-motion animation.

Italy's Oscars submission: a homecoming drama in a Naples neighbourhood fighting for dignity and everyday survival.

Nuanced, intimate saga of an Ivorian family’s integration into France, narrated over thirty years.

An investigation into language, law and identity through the figure of an infanticidal mother.

A charming, witty, subtle film about the difficulty of establishing and maintaining an art career.

Clash of good versus evil as Indonesia’s first female superhero squares up to save humanity.

Fictionalised account of novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello’s creation of Six Characters in Search of an Author.

An icily detached metaphysical thriller that dissects one of our culture’s most revered notions: uniqueness.

With the Surprise Film, we’ll keep you in the dark until the curtains open.

Cannes Caméra d’Or winning naturalistic perspective into the lives of Lakota teenagers struggling to survive.

Brendan Fraser gives an exceptional performance as a man living with obesity in a remote house in Idaho.

An epic treatment of how Hong Kong's rule of law was built, starring Tony Leung and Aaron Kwok.

In March 1996, millionaire academic Jan Philipp Reemtsma was kidnapped. What did his family do while waiting for his return?