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Through static compositions and observational detail, the documentary explores how Laos’s visitors and residents inhabit the same spaces in very different ways

This story of emancipated young women escaping draconian social strictures brims with enthusiasm and features a cameo from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

This inventive film, made entirely inside the multiplayer game DayZ, finds moments of community and wonder amid the zombies, factions and virtual bloodshed

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

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