From the Academy Awards® and BAFTAS to Palme D’Ors and Césars,
browse through our award-winning favourites:

 

DRIVE MY CAR
DIR. RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI

Academy Award® winner for Best International Feature Film, Cannes Film Festival winner of the Best Screenplay Award, BAFTA winner for Best Film Not In The English Langauge and Golden Globe winner for Best International Feature, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s three hour epic took the world by storm; a haunting road film that travels a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.

MURINA
Dir. Anotneta Alamat Kusijanovic

Winner of the Caméra d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, Kusijanovic’s debut feature has since received 2 Gotham Award nominations, and has been longlisted for a BIFA. Heralded by Martin Scorsese as an “extremely talented young filmmaker”, Kusijanovic’s Murina explores the tensions that rise between restless teenager Julija and her oppressive father Ante when an old family friend arrives at their Croatian island home.

THE VELVET QUEEN: SNOW LEOPARD
DIR. MARIE AMIGUET, VINCENT MUNIER

Best Documentary winner at the César and Lumiere Awards, The Velvet Queen is an ode to the wonders and beauty of our natural world— where sweeping Tibetan landscapes are rapturously captured by one of the world's most renowned wildlife photographers.

HAPPY AS LAZZARO
Dir. Alice Rohrwacher

Best Screenplay winner at Cannes Film Festival, Happy as Lazzaro was also selected to compete for the prestigious Palme D’Or. It went on to receive Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenwriter and Best Actress nominations at the European Film Awards. Rohrwacher’s tender film tells the story of an unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family who are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

 

3 days in quiberon
Dir. Emily Atef

Winner of 7 awards at the German Film Awards including Outstanding Feature Film (Gold), Best Direction, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Cinematography, 3 Days in Quiberon also received a nomination for European Director at the European Film Awards, and was a Golden Bear selection at the Berlin International Film Festival.

wheel of fortune and fantasy
dir. Ryusuke hamaguchi

From Academy Award® and BAFTA winning director, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, comes Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy— a triptych of love stories which picked up the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlinale International Film Festival.

border
Dir. ali abbasi

Sweden’s entry for the 91st Academy Awards® and winner of the Un Certain Regard Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival, Border also went on to win Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Sound Design, and Best Make-up at the Swedish Guldebagge Film Awards.

the traitor
Dir. Marco Bellocchio

Winner of 6 David Di Donatello Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, The Traitor was also nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenwriter and Best Actor at the European Film Awards and was the Italian Entry for the 92nd Academy Awards®. Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra.

 

KEYBOARD fantasies
dir. posy dixon

Part biopic, part tour documentary, BAFTA and BIFA nominated Keyboard Fantasies tells the time-travelling tale of musician, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, as the present finally catches up with him and he embarks on his first international tour at the age of 74.

Moon, 66 Questions
dir. Jacqueline Lentzou

A Berlinale Encounters selection, Moon, 66 Questions also won the Cineuropa Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival. After years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father’s frail state of health. Discovering her father’s well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father, in a way she was not able before, therefore love him truly for the first time.

The Drover’s Wife
Dir. Leah Purcell

Nominated for 13 AACTA awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Actor, Leah Purcell’s adaptation of Henry Lawson’s classic Australian tale is the first Australian feature with an Indigenous woman writing, directing and starring in the lead role.

Wildfire
Dir. Cathy Brady

BIFA Winner for Best Debut Screenwriter and 2x IFTA Winner for Best Director and Best Actress (Nika McGuigan), Wildfire is the story of Lauren and Kelly; inseparable sisters raised in a small town on the Irish border whose lives were shattered following the mysterious death of their mother.

 

White Riot
Dir. Rubika Shah

Best Documentary winner at BFI London Film Festival, White Riot was also nominated for Best Documentary at the BIFAs and was received a Special Mention Crystal Bear at the Berlinale International Film Festival. Rubika Shah’s energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell.

Never Look Away
Dir. Florian Henckel v. Donnersmarck

Never Look Away received 2 nominations at the 91st Academy Awards® for Best Foreign Film and Best Cinematography, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. von Donnersmarck’s film also won the Leoncino D’Oro and Arca Cinemagiovani awards at Venice Film Festival. Never Look Away is an intergenerational tale of love, sorrow, art and politics spanning three decades of 20th century German history, from Nazism through much of the Cold War.

Utøya - July 22
Dir. Erik Poppe

Utøya - July 22 received 8 nominations at the Norwegian International Film Festival, winning awards for Best Actress (Andrea Berntzen) and Best Actress In A Supporting Role (Solveig Koløen Birkeland). Further, it won Best Cinematographer (Martin Otterbeck) at the European Film Awards, and was a Golden Bear selection at the Berlinale. Poppe’s film charts the horrific attacks that happened on July 22 2011, where more than more than 500 youths at a political summer camp on an island outside Oslo were attacked by an armed, right-wing extremist.

Winner of the VFF Documentary Film Production Award at the Munich International Film Festival, Beyonf the Visible tells the story of Hilma af Klint; an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colourful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting.