Sweden’s Lukas Moodysson taps into the feminine punk-rock spirit of Pussy Riot in his latest film about three teenage girls standing against the adult world

Ralph Fiennes directs and casts himself as Charles Dickens in this period drama about the woman behind the literary master

The third of Roberto Minervini’s Texas Trilogy, Stop the Pounding Heart is a subtle, fragmented piece about rural Christian America

The relationship of two northern boys is the centre of this social realist film in Clio Barnard’s deftly-handled second feature

Ari Folman’s psychedelic follow-up to the critically lauded Waltz With Bashir is one hell of a trip.

The futility of political activism – Kelly Reichardt delivers a compelling movie about a difficult subject, a group of eco-activists who commit an extreme act for a noble cause

Surviving the cries of exploitation and the moniker of “The French Lesbian epic”, just, Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour picture explores the highs and lows of young love and sexual awakening

An exceptional portrait of overbearing maternal love that simultaneously casts an eye over the hierarchies of Romanian society

Hong Sang-soo’s incidental, but charming tale of an illicit affair and a young woman adrift in modern Seoul

A monochrome voyage of discovery in post-war Poland that explores the confines of faith and the ramifications of loss

Paul-Julien Robert’s documentary of his return to Friedrichshof, Otto Muehl’s free-loving commune, where Robert grew up with his mother

James Franco adapts the ‘unfilmable’ William Faulkner modern classic for the big screen