Following an eleven-year documentary period, Shōhei Imamura returned to fiction with Vengeance is Mine, a serpentine thriller that reinforces his focus on the dark underbelly of everyday reality. A fictionalised portrayal of the real-life serial killer Akira Nishiguchi, Imamura's film is both a winding thriller and a brilliantly opaque character study that defies simple genre categorisation.

The latest film from German filmmaker Angela Schanelec is a spellbinding relationship drama that eschews conventional melodrama in favour of a formally audacious and elliptical approach to love, gender and trauma.

A group of international doctors breach the longstanding blockade on Gaza. What they find is the calculated dismantling of life itself.

A minimalist comedy of infidelity transforms into a surreal, fantastical inquiry into ambition, art-making, and the instability of friendship, as a trio of artist friends navigate a love triangle further strained by their competition for the same role in a low-budget film.