There Was a Father

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

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

Ian McKellen is in delicious form as London's most vicious critic, who strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actor (Gemma Arterton).

Justin Edgar's pioneering feature comedy about a neurotic filmmaker enlisted to make a film with a class of wheelchair-users.

Gripping courtroom drama based on the explosive 1976 murder trial of French political activist, Pierre Goldman.

A struggling actor faces relentless knockbacks in Naqqash Khalid’s sharp-witted comment on race and identity in the film industry.

Yasujiro Ozu’s beautiful domestic drama is piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone in post-war Tokyo.

Ozu's first sound film is a powerful tale of sacrifice and hope set against the backdrop of depression-era Japan.

Young father Shuji turns to crime to pay his daughter's medical bills in Ozu's masterly early drama.

The surviving, incomplete version of Ozu's moving silent drama about a young man struggling to deal with a disturbing family secret.

Abandoned by their mother, sisters Akiko (Ineko Arima) and Takako (Setsuko Hara) live with their father Shukichi (Chishu Ryu). When Akiko falls into desperate trouble, she turns away from her family.

Ozu’s earliest surviving film follows students Watanabe and Yamamoto as they unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Ozu's comic pre-war feature about a professor who falls into the clutches of his audacious niece.

Yasujiro Ozu’s beautiful domestic drama is piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone in post-war Tokyo.

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in Ozu's comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

Ozu's first sound film is a powerful tale of sacrifice and hope set against the backdrop of depression-era Japan.

Will Kenji 'the Knife' Koyama, leader of a gang of hooligans, go straight to win the heart of virtuous Yasue?

Young father Shuji turns to crime to pay his daughter's medical bills in Ozu's masterly early drama.

After the death of her husband, Mrs Toda and her youngest daughter receive a frosty welcome from extended family, in Ozu's incisive satire.

A striking portrait of an artist deserving of greater recognition, directed by Mark Cousins (A Story of Film).

Johan Grimonprez’s involving film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.

This powerful documentary from a Palestinian-Israeli collective might be one of the most important films of this year.

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

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

Ian McKellen is in delicious form as London's most vicious critic, who strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actor (Gemma Arterton).