This critically acclaimed chiller comes from British director Peter Strickland whose 2009 debut, the darkly atmospheric revenge drama Katalin Varga, played to a highly appreciative WFC audience. The versatile British actor Toby Jones (whose roles have included Truman Capote, Alfred Hitchcock and Dobbie the house elf) plays a mousy sound engineer called Gilderoy from Dorking in the 1970s. He has taken a job in a post-production studio in Italy, the Berberian sound studio of the title, working on a horror film called The Equestrian Vortex. Gilderoy is a whiz at creating new effects, but is that the only reason he was hired?

My highlight of 2012 adventurous, enigmatic and sound as a pound. Mark Kermode, The Observer

Utterly distinctive and all but unclassifiable, a musique concrete nightmare, a psycho-metaphysical implosion of anxiety, with strange-tasting traces of black comedy and movie-buff riffs seriously weird and seriously good. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Its vision, ingenuity and sheer gobsmacking audacity have blown me ten feet out of my seat. one of the years very best films, a great, rumbling thunderclap of genius. Robbie Collin, The Daily Telegraph

From Jones’s twitchy, sympathetic-but-never-likeable central turn to Strickland’s dynamic use of sound and image, from the painstakingly drip-fed plot to a series of genuinely original shock moments, Berberian Sound Studio is like nothing before. Tom Huddleston Time Out

London Awards , Best Actor British Independent Film Awards, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Achievement in Production, Best Technical Achievement London Evening Standard Film Awards Best Actor