The directorial debut of Icelandic actor, writer and stage director Benedikt Erlingsson, the film is formed of six interlocking fables of rural life. Each involves at least one horse and its human owner: two soulful beasts united against the blind cruelty of fate.

It is 1962 in Poland and Anna is about to take vows as a nun when she learns from her only relative that she is Jewish. Both women embark on a journey to discover their family story and where they belong.

The film is set in west Belfast in the early years of the conflict. Gary, an English lad from Derbyshire who has joined the Parachute Regiment, is left behind by his retreating unit. He finds himself in a no-man’s-land where “the enemy within” appears to apply both to friend and foe. It is a world in which the authorities are running high-level informers and supplying arms to loyalist paramilitaries to maintain a deniable, proxy war.

Golshifteh Farahani plays a beautiful but careworn woman in a ruined warzone, obediently tending to her wounded husband, who is in a persistent vegetative state after being shot in the neck. In life, he was a cruel and tyrannical husband, and his wife is now sensing that despite the crushing burden of caring for him, she has a euphoric kind of freedom in speaking her mind to his mute, unblinking quasi-corpse.

Wim Wenders co-directed this documentary about Sebastião Salgado with the photographer’s son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, bringing “an outsider’s view” to a wealth of extant footage and photos. From stunning images of the gold mines of Serra Pelada to the horrors of famine in the Sahel and genocide in Rwanda.

John May, a civil servant, has the thankless job of locating relatives of the recently deceased. To his superiors (and indeed everyone else), these poor unfortunates are just numbers, but John takes an all-too-personal interest in their passing.

Ethiopian director Zeresenay Mehari’s docudrama recounts a game-changing legal case from the mid-90s that involved a 14-year-old girl named Hirut (played by Tizita Hagere) who tried to plead self-defence after fatally shooting the man who abducted and raped her.

stephen Amidon’s 2004 novel Human Capital has been transplanted from its original Connecticut setting to the prosperous environs of Milan. A cyclist is knocked down in a hit-and-run incident, uniting two families who have already drawn together by greed.

After a brutal winter, three settlers’ wives have been driven mad by bereavement and financial ruin, and the parish priest needs someone to literally cart them back to a sanatorium in Iowa – the pioneer’s journey in reverse. The job requires a “homesman”: someone smart, strong and trustworthy, who can survive by himself for weeks on the trail. Except no man in town is up to the task so the homesman has to be a homeswoman. Mary Bee (Hilary Swank) grits her teeth and saddles up.

Based on the bestselling 2009 debut novel by Jonas Jonasson, the wildly whimsical narrative follows the misadventures of Allan Karlsson (Swedish comedy great Robert Gustafsson) who escapes from an old people's home just in time to miss his own centenary birthday party.

Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the story of Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkward high school senior whose mum forces him to spend time with Rachel - a girl in his class (Olivia Cooke) with whom he hasn't spoken to since nursery school - who was just diagnosed with cancer.

Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles to balance her own desires with the dictates of her family's faith, she makes ever more perilous sacrifices, attempting to please a God she worships unquestioningly in the pious hope of curing the autistic younger brother she adores.

The film shows life in a city under the control of violent Islamic fundamentalists. The main plot line involves a day-dreaming, music-loving herder who owns eight cattle. He is devoted to his wife and daughter but after his beloved cow is shot by a local fisherman, he becomes involved in a dispute with deadly consequences – one in which the fundamentalists' attempts at law enforcement backfire entirely.

Diego Quemada-Diez's astounding and gripping debut feature is a piercing and poetic road movie that follows the fortunes of four Guatemalan teenagers on a dangerous journey across the Mexican border into America. Using improvisational techniques and non-professional actors, The Golden Dream has won critical praise world over.

Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian (Mia Wasikowska) satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. The journey, which spawned an article for National Geographic and a global bestseller, begins in April 1977 and lasts for nine arduous months.

Inspired by the same true-life events that informed William Friedkin's New York-based The French Connection, Cedric Jimenez lays out the Marseilles end of the battle against the heroin trade of the mid-’70s.

James Brown (Chadwick Boseman) takes us on a whistle-stop tour of his life, from struggling in poverty as Little Junior, to joining R&B group The Famous Flames, to becoming the world-famous Godfather of Soul.

A pair of mismatched Spanish cops are on the trail of a serial killer in the aftermath of the fall of Franco. One‚ an old ally of the former fascist regime, the other an ambitious, young advocate of democracy.