In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake Saddam Hussein's birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task while facing potential punishment if she fails.

A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbours in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.

Isiah Medina strikingly reimagines the gangster picture in this profound and ironic examination of both depiction, endorsement, and the morality of making and consuming cinema.

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.

With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

Drawing on telenovelas and home movies, the debut feature from Mexican filmmaker Racornelia incisively unravels the shifting power dynamics underlying a young family’s Christmas dinner in Mexico City.

A melodramatic epic that looks to community and love, Church and Communism, poverty and spirit, as it chronicles of the lives of two postwar Neapolitan families.

Lana Daher’s archival essay film is a personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory that spans 70 years of film, television, home movies and photography.