Viking

The debut feature from the award-winning writer-director of A Separation and A Hero is an original morality tale about a passionate young man who foolishly decides that hunting snakes in the desert is the most expedient route to paying off his debts.

In the run-up to the largest Vermeer exhibition ever at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a cast of curators set out in search of what makes a Vermeer truly Vermeer.

Sophie Fiennes' enthralling record of her brother Ralph's monumental one-man performance of one of the key works in 20th Century literature.

The second film from writer-director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation; The Salesman; A Hero) finds a potent dramatic entry point in a grieving father's resistance to granting clemency to the teenager who killed his daughter -- at her urging.

A widow is adopted by a stray dog who makes himself right at home. So much so, Róise decides he must be the reincarnation of her late husband Frank. This Irish charmer practically rolls over and insists you tickle its tummy.

Husband and wife team Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch (who previously collaborated on Broken Circle Breakdown) have lovingly crafted a tender rural epic about two boys, childhood friends, who spend summers together in the Alps.