The Brand New Testament

In Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael’s universe, God's ten-year-old daughter is on a mission to liberate humanity from her bored old man's destructive whims. The film note had us at "Catherine Deneuve as a wealthy shopaholic who bonds with a gorilla." Need we say more?

Deathgasm

Get ready to rock! Two metalheads unleash a satanic riff that opens the gates of hell in this blood-splattered, heavy shredding comedy-horror. The winner of the Make My Horror Movie competition hits home shores (and the director's home turf) after wowing audiences overseas.

Girlhood

Newcomer Karidja Touré makes a mesmerising impression as a teenager drawn out of her shell and into a black girl gang in Céline Sciamma’s (Tomboy) energetic and deeply empathetic drama, set in the tough suburbs of Paris. Vive le cinéma!

Iris

Veteran documentary maestro Albert Maysles’ Iris is a captivating salute to a proud flag-bearer of the vanishing quality of fashion individuality, the legendary New York clotheshorse and design darling Iris Apfel.

Mavis!

The life, music and passionate commitment of the irresistible Mavis Staples are lovingly chronicled in this spirited doco – with help from fans Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Chuck D, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Prince. A music lover's paradise.

Sherpa

We are unlikely ever to tire of the spectacle of Everest as pure wilderness, even if, before the terrible events of May, tales of adventure tourists crowding the mountain were becoming more and more common. The Everest captured so vividly in Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom’s superb Sherpa is one of awesome beauty, but it is also one teeming with chaotic human activity.

Tale of Tales

Drawing on the rich and lurid vein of Neapolitan fairy tales, Matteo Garrone’s (Reality) lavish, eye-popping fantasy thrusts a stellar international cast into its wildly baroque world of kings, queens, hags and monsters. "Python meets Pasolini in this horrific, hilarious – and very grown up – fairy tale anthology" — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

The Wolfpack

The winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, Crystal Moselle’s film delves into the bizarrely sheltered lives of six brothers whose father has confined them (and their sister) since birth to the tiny rooms of their Lower East Side apartment. What these boys know about social interaction they’ve learned from watching movies – thousands of them – and creating ingenious, homemade re-creations of their favourites. You'll be talking about this long after the credits have rolled.

The Wrecking Crew

Director Denny Tedesco is an enthusiastic guide to the legacy of his father, LA session guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and the loose coterie of ace musicians known as ‘The Wrecking Crew’ who contributed to some of the greatest pop tracks of the 50s and 60s. With a soundtrack you can sing along to, this spirited doco celebrates the hitherto anonymous LA session musicians who enlivened hit LPs by The Byrds, Cher, Nancy and Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, The Monkees and many more.