My Dog is Dead

In Amalia Ulman's playful slow burner, a Vice-like camera crew wash up in a sleepy South American village and cook up a story that isn't there with the help of cynical locals eager to take the gringos for every cent.

Pema Tseden was the first Tibetan director to graduate from the Beijing Film Academy. The Silent Manistone (2002) and his graduation film, The Grassland (2004) are fascinating sketches for later works.

In what may be Pema Tseden's darkest film, a Tibetan mastiff is sold, recovered, re-sold, stolen, and recovered yet again, passing through the hands of an ethnic Chinese dealer, the local police, and Tibetan dog rustlers.

The visceral power of images to get under our skin lies at the heart of Joshua Erkman's striking debut feature, a scorched earth neo-noir about a jaded landscape photographer, Alex (Kai Lennox) who runs into trouble in Mojave desert.

Gena Rowlands plays aging stage actress Myrtle Gordon in this self-reflexive ghost story by John Cassavetes.

De Sica's film about a labourer desperate to track down the bike that has been stolen from him is a landmark in film history, the movie that cemented the impact of Italian neo-realism on world cinema.