Africa, Asia and Latin America at the London Film Festival
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Here are some of the titles:
He Named Me Malala, "an inspiring portrait of an incredibly brave and resilient young woman who carries a message of hope for women in the world"
Hany Abu-Assad’s The Idol, a portrait of Muhammad Assaf, the Gazan singer who won “Arab Idol” at age 23 and became a symbol of hope for Palestinians worldwide
Yared Zeleke’s sharp eye for the culture of his homeland, Ethiopia, is showcased in this tremendous ethnographic debut, Lamb
Mediterranea, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy
Biyi Bandele’s Fifty, an exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos
A Perfect Day, comedy about a group of aid workers trying to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone
Deepa Mehta’s Beeba Boys - "a ferocious, adrenaline-charged Indo Canadian gang war, and a violent clash of culture and crime"
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's cryptic and gentle Cemetery of Splendor
Desierto, directed by Jonás Cuarón, is about migrants running away from a US vigilante on an unguarded section of the Sonora desert
Johnnie To reunites with Chow Yun-Fat and Sylvia Chang for Office, a story about life and struggle at work
Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya's Very Big Shot is about three coke-smuggling brothers in Lebanon coerced by their crooked boss into a dangerous last score
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan
Mabel Cheung’s sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan’s parents, A Tale of Three Cities
Censored Voices reveals for the first time recordings made after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, censored at the time by the Israeli army
Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang, a documentary on a Chinese film-maker, with reflections on the country's transformation
Master documentary-maker Patricio Guzmán's latest look at Chile, The Pearl Button
Jennifer Peedom's Sherpa looks at how the Sherpas united in grief and anger after a deadly tragedy on Everest in 2014 to reclaim the mountain they call Chomolungma
Brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser’s Degrade, a drama set in a women’s hair salon in Gaza that moves seamlessly between humour and despair
Much Loved, Nabil Ayouch’s no-holds-barred drama on the world of prostitution in Morocco
Paulina, Santiago Mitre’s intelligent parable for contemporary Argentina
Taklub, Brillante Ma Mendoza’s ode to a Filipino city devastated by a typhoon
Jafar Panahi’s latest film, Taxi Tehran, set and shot inside a car
The Endless River, "a devasting new film" set in small-town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus
Diep Hoang Nguyen’s debut, Flapping the the Middle of Nowhere focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight
Lucife, about an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in ‘Tondoscope’ – a circular frame in the centre of the screen
Kothanodi, "a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India"
Algerian director Merzak Allouache’s gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in Madam Courage
Ali F. Mostafa’s From A To B, a ‘dramedy’ following three estranged childhood companions who embark on a road trip to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a friend’s death and offers a new perspective on life in the Gulf and Middle East
A Perfect Day, comedy about a group of aid workers trying to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone
A breathtaking ethnographic Colombian Amazon odyssey, Embrace of the Serpent
Jia Zhangke’s ambitious, astute and humane Mountains May Depart
The New Classmate, about a single mum in India battling to ensure her daughter’s future
Sembene, documentary on the acclaimed African filmmaker
Chloé Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me
They Will Have To Kill Us First: Malian Music In Exile, the complexity and emotion of the life of musicians forced into exile and desperate to keep their music alive
Adama, a moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914
Celestial Camel, thrilling tale about a 12-year-old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled ‘celestial camel’
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