Japan’s Oscar entry is a dystopian drama about a near future in which the government launches a program encouraging seniors to commit euthanasia.

Brooding anti-thriller about colonial bureaucracy and geopolitical power games on French Polynesian Tahiti. Film of the year according to Cahiers du Cinema.

Tender drama based on a novella by Claire Keegan about the unexpectedly joyful summer of a neglected 10-year-old girl in rural Ireland in the early 1980s.

Comedic crime caper by Nicolas Bedos (La Belle Époque), set against the backdrop of the French Riviera; a sunny place for dark people.

Idiosyncratic portrait of artist Edvard Munch, focusing on the emotional world of the painter of The Scream. Opening film of IFFR earlier this year.

Intimate and moving family chronicle about a single mother who moves to Paris from the Ivory Coast with her two young sons in the late 1980s.

Heart-warming drama about a 92-year-old woman who asks a taxi driver to drive her to some of the most momentous locations of her life.

Intimate documentary about a woman who grew up in an orphanage in Cape Verde and became a global star nicknamed the ‘barefoot diva’: singer Cesária Évora.

The story of an investigative priest who is commissioned by the Vatican to investigate a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary in a village in Limburg.

Ensemble comedy by Cesc Gay – often called the Spanish Woody Allen – about the hilarious, painful, and extremely awkward curveballs life sometimes throws us.