In the immediate aftermath of her break up from Maxine, Persian, Bisexual Shirin refuses to accept their relationship is irrecoverable and sets about trying to win her back, with varying degrees of failure, whilst navigating the sociopolitical landscape that her life inhabits. Superbly written and directed by Desiree Akhavan - who also plays Shirin, well, superbly. So, all round superb, in my best Brooklyn accent. (Brett Atkinson)

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A very weird little Aussie number, winner of the Grand Jury Special Prize at Venice. Bubby is 35-years-old but has never been outside the squalid flat where he lives incestuously with his grotesque mother... until the day his Pa returns to the nest. Tasteless and disturbing, but compulsive viewing. find out more...

Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

Set in the Palestinian occupied territories we follow our central character as he struggles to maintain a meaningful relationship with the woman he loves under the watchful glare of an Isreali checkpoint. "Divine Intervention" is a marvelously offbeat movie, part satire, part farce, frequently surreal, but through it all a perceptive and thoughtful observation of a conflict that as yet defies solution. find out more...

In Fellini's sardonically humorous, yet powerfully dramatic, 'Il Bidone' three small-time crooks impersonate priests in Rome to con poor people out of their money. Broderick Crawford is extraordinary as the group's world-weary leader whose chance meeting with his own daughter opens his eyes to his wrongdoing. Too late, he suffers a crisis of conscience in this absorbing tale of hope, desperation and tragedy. find out more...

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An American Michael Jackson impersonator, dancing in the streets of Paris to scrape a living, gets whisked off to a utopian commune in Scotland to live alongside the Pope, Charlie Chaplin, the Queen, Little Red Riding Hood, Abe Lincoln and Madonna. Elsewhere a pilot takes nuns on flights to throw packages out of planes to impoverished Third World villages. Largely unseen warm hearted off-beat bonkerishness from Harmony Korine. find out more...

Brilliant TV drama with Coleman (Four Weddings) as Jess, the unfortunate daughter of McEwan's heathen-hating Evangelist. Emerging from a rigid childhood in blissful ignorance of the horrors of fornication, Jess gives everyone a bit of a shock when she falls in love with Melanie. Side-splittingly superb. find out more...

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A brilliant study of the bizarre hinterland of rural America and a whacky travelling preacher who collects some pretty whacky converts. Adapted from satirical Flannery O'Connor's first novel. find out more...