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This heartfelt film bears witness to a defiant community, forms a vital piece of oral history and shows the resilience of those determined to stay on

Dazzling rotoscoped running sequences make up for a lack of narrative subtlety in Kenji Iwaisawa’s film

This hybrid documentary about the Cree astronomer offers evocative, poetic insight into a formidable community leader

Sara Shahverdi refuses to accept the norms of her deeply conservative village as she becomes its first female councillor. But for every step forward, as this dynamic documentary shows, a further obstacle is thrown in her path

Activism merges with everyday life in a documentary where film-makers Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn attempt to turn their neighbourhood into a renewable power hub

Study of the fate of undocumented children brought to the US, now grown up and paying taxes, yet under constant threat of deportation and removal

Seaming together many different records of the civil war in the early 1990s we see a country’s fracture unfold through a crowd of partisan views

Théodore Pellerin is outstanding as Simon, a performer navigating a bullying boyfriend and a distant mother in Sophie Dupuis’s sad and celebratory film

In the first of a film trilogy, teenage Tanjiro seeks vengeance for his murdered family in what is a great taste of things to come

Aspiring performer Yvonne dreams aloud in candy-coloured reveries that carry the hopes of a marginalised singer in a rarely-seen Parisian community

A documentary following the only staff psychiatrist in a Paris hospital reveals both the indifference of society and a doctor’s devoted care

Dongji Rescue review – epic tale of British PoWs saved by Chinese fishers gets blockbuster treatment

Christian Einshøj’s debut feature unearths home video footage taken by his father, as he and his siblings explore their long-buried feelings about their brother’s death

Ico Costa’s film follows a young man who leaves his sweetheart in search of better fortune in the perilous mines in the north of the country

When actor-director Anne Barbot embarks on an adaptation of a Zola novel with her neighbour, the gap between theatre and reality appears to collapse entirely

In an endearingly whimsical road trip documentary, Floriane Devigne takes calls from her interview subjects in the last remaining phone boxes dotted across rural France

Drag is a tool of self-expression and of protest in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the city’s vibrant underground art

Each character uses a different method of communication in Adam Wong’s drama, which benefits from the chemistry of its lead performers

The extraordinarily popular painter of kitsch American scenes struggled with addiction and depression, as this documentary with access to his previously unseen works shows

Director Matty Hannon’s adventures are a dazzling cinematic homage to nature even if his environmental commentary sometimes roams a bit too freely