The Bell

A group of teenagers traverse a utopian city, their journey nuanced with poetic texts and motifs borrowed from 19th-century Sicilian fairy tales

A complex surreal tapestry that blurs the boundaries between science fiction, archaeology and youthful spontaneity

With nods to noir and German Expresionism, Strafer’s film is an intriguingly wonky piece of meta-cinema

Workers select 100,000 petals from 10,000 roses to create a generative algorithm in this meditation on nature, beauty and uniqueness

A film that champions the shipworm, a tiny marine creature that ate away at the vessels involved in the Atlantic slave trade

A deeply personal retrospection on the influence of US foreign policy on the decades-long civil war in Angola  

Referencing an iconic moment of frivolity in a time of revolution from art history, Kukama reinterprets a playful act into a critique of the power dynamics at play in contemporary Johannesburg

An anthropological narrative of migration seen through a landscape that was frozen during the last ice age but is now jungly and equatorial

Notions of authenticity and performance are questioned in a distortion of the conventional frameworks of narrative cinema

The vibrant and conflicted world of Blackpool: from nostalgic affection for the British seaside to the harrowing toll of the AIDS years on its gay scene