Where Hands Touch

French debut director Lola Quivoron revs up with a ferocious tale of a woman kickstarting a new life in the world of guerrilla motocross racing.

Alfre Woodard is quietly devastating as a weary prison warden presiding over her twelfth execution, in this Sundance-winning death row drama.

An exquisitely shot, moving drama about a Polish nun exploring her family past, which won a BAFTA for director Pawel Pawlikowski.

Faced with a rapidly ageing population, a government in near-future Japan rolls out an unsettling agenda.

A fisherman’s son is offered a place at a prestigious Islamic school in Cairo and finds himself drawn into a religious and political power struggle.

A newly promoted detective is assigned to a young woman’s chilling murder in this deeply arresting crime thriller based on true events.

Alice Diop reinvents the courtroom drama in this concentrated, gripping study of a writer and the young African woman accused of murdering her own daughter. Based on a true story.

This beautifully tender and deeply moving new film from Léonor Serraille is a vibrant portrait of a family told from multiple perspectives.

Clement Virgo’s film is a stunning portrait of wounded masculinity.

After crashing his grandma’s car, aspiring teen rapper Shabu spends his summer trying to pay her back, in Shamira Raphaëla’s hilarious, better-than-fiction documentary.

Filmed in vivid black-and-white, C.J. Obasi’s bold Sundance winning film navigates the conflict between tradition and modernity in a Nigerian coastal village, featuring an incredible oceanic soundscape and hypnotic score.

In this epic drama from the director of Gomorrah, two Senegalese teenagers attempt to travel across land and sea to Europe.

Viggo Mortensen plays the father-gone-primitive in this wonderful award-winning comedy about an off-grid family.

Léa Seydoux wanders through a maze of past, present and uncertain future in Bertrand Bonello’s audacious blend of period drama and conceptual crystal-gazing.

The lines of seduction, revenge and power are blurred in this tense and stylish thriller about desire and self-loathing, starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay.

Alexandra Roach (Utopia) and George MacKay (1917) play a couple hopelessly navigating the world of millennial dating, in Rachel Hirons’ distinctly filthy and cringe-heavy comedy.

An intense and mysterious drama about the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident who’s outcast and persecuted by his fellow villagers.

Amma Assante (Belle) directs this impassioned drama starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike depicting an interracial romance that changed the world.

French debut director Lola Quivoron revs up with a ferocious tale of a woman kickstarting a new life in the world of guerrilla motocross racing.

Alfre Woodard is quietly devastating as a weary prison warden presiding over her twelfth execution, in this Sundance-winning death row drama.

An exquisitely shot, moving drama about a Polish nun exploring her family past, which won a BAFTA for director Pawel Pawlikowski.

Faced with a rapidly ageing population, a government in near-future Japan rolls out an unsettling agenda.

A fisherman’s son is offered a place at a prestigious Islamic school in Cairo and finds himself drawn into a religious and political power struggle.

A newly promoted detective is assigned to a young woman’s chilling murder in this deeply arresting crime thriller based on true events.