New Directors/New Films — A–Z of films

Aleph shows how big our world is, how manifold, how beautiful, and how the really important riddles are the same for everybody.

All Light, Everywhere examines the microscopic and vertiginous in equal, beguiling measure.

There’s sadness here for isolation and a grief that goes beyond the loss of a single life once lived. There’s also a heightened sense of the smaller absurdities of existence.

Many doors are not very open, they give us merely a little glimpse into a strange world.

With jump cuts, fancy fades, and towels featuring cartoon owls and penguins, Amalia Ulman draws from her work as an artist and includes it seamlessly into the world of cinema.

Beshir keeps an eye on the natural environment as well as the sociopolitics, including the oppression of the Oromo people, while allowing a mythic element concerning the hunt for the water of life to flow alongside.

Shot in handheld black and white with an obviously-low budget, it might seem rough – but what we’re watching is still pure Nolan.

This is toxic masculinity masquerading as boredom, with Wenders' refusal to give it emotional adornment only adding to the sense of existential strangeness of the whole affair.

Shooting from odd angles, watching from above or tilting her camera up from below, Kim conveys both the crowded milieu within which her heroine lives and the sense of dislocation that the rape creates.

This film will only appeal to Araki fans who wish to discover his roots.

This is a clear-eyed view of the choices Jesmark and those like him are facing, showing just how complex the situation is, cutting beyond work to community and culture.

An astonishing arrival.

This is impressionistic filmmaking and the young director handles it with extraordinary confidence.

A masterpiece of visual storytelling.

Although an intensely personal document, it's possible to see inside it, the bones of wider tensions in society.

Gornostai avoids obvious narrative arcs in favour of just letting us hang out and observe the everyday challenges and small dramas that pepper the lives of these 16-year-olds.

Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace.

This film is long overdue.