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.

Sergei Parajanov's avant-garde portrait of Armenian poet Sayat-Nova chronicles his life from youth through death, using framing and the poet's verse to create a distinct, symbolic and poetic work.

In 2018, veteran Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab invited filmmaker and archivist Mohanad Yaqubi to collaborate. She died two months later, having never received an answer, leaving the request as a final, open question. Revolutionaries Never Die is Yaqubi’s cinematic answer, imagining what their conversation might have been.