Assessment

A Latino barber embarks on an erotically charged odyssey of self-discovery over one hot summer in Brooklyn.

Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as a coal merchant who discovers horrific secrets about his local convent.

Romantic sparks fly between the daughters of two opposing politicians in Wanuri Kahiu’s neon-bright story of forbidden love in Kenya.

Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia's unsettling drama-documentary delivers a powerful commentary on the state of the world today… and tomorrow.

Bullied for her sexuality, Dublin schoolgirl Lily turns to her gay best friend for support in this vibrant coming-out, coming-of-age drama.

Shujun Wei's slow-burn noir draws us inexorably into its mysterious psychological journey.

A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities.

The gritty and ground-breaking drama debuted Britain’s first black TV cop, with George William Harris as the CID officer embroiled in a drug war.

This documentary by Menelik Shabazz (Burning an Illusion) about the response to the New Cross Fire in 1981 prefigures the widespread social unrest later that year.

Experimental monologue about the trauma of racial harassment and self-hate that accompanies growing up mixed-race in Britain.

The women of Rastafari talk about their relationship to the movement’s development.

A ferocious dystopian nightmare, this was the first film directed by a Black British woman to receive a UK theatrical release.

Jenny Agutter stars in this short about a group of uncommunicative neighbours who closely monitor a new tenant’s movements until they meet via their intercom.

A peaceful huntsman is thrust into the heart of the resistance following an Austrian Empire invasion, in this gripping retelling of a timeless legend.

François Ozon’s witty 1930s farce about a penniless actress who finds fame while on trial for murder, featuring a riotous performance from Isabelle Huppert.

A Latino barber embarks on an erotically charged odyssey of self-discovery over one hot summer in Brooklyn.

Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as a coal merchant who discovers horrific secrets about his local convent.

Romantic sparks fly between the daughters of two opposing politicians in Wanuri Kahiu’s neon-bright story of forbidden love in Kenya.

Andrea Riseborough stars as an aid worker processing the trauma of working on the frontline on the Jordanian-Syrian border.