Audience Score: 40-49%

  • Berberian Sound Studio

    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…

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  • The Assassin

    The film centres on Nie Yinniang, an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials by her master, Jiaxin, a nun who raised her from the age of ten. When Yinniang displays mercy by failing to kill during her duties, Jiaxin punishes her with a ruthless assignment designed to test Yinniang’s resolve: she is…

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  • Chevalier

    In contrast with images now so often associated with Greece, Chevalier is a comedy set on a boat. A group of six men that have gone on a fishing tour are entering a competition of “The best man in general”. Any skill or physical endowment that can possibly be judged is put down in their…

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  • Gueros

    This feisty Mexican comedy-drama, filmed in black and white on a micro-budget, is the debut feature from director Alonso Ruizpalacios. Mexican movie star Gael Garcia Bernal (who played Che Guevara in one of the WFC’s earliest features, Motorcycle Diaries) is associate producer. Ruizpalacios was born in 1978 and studied stage directing in Mexico City before…

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  • Tampopo

    A lone truckdriver Goro (Yamazaki) arrives in a small town and stops for noodles. They’re not great and his remarks about the noodle bar’s mediocrity triggers a brawl with locals. A thoroughly thrashed Goro is invited by the restaurant hostess, Tampopo (Miyamoto, Itami’s wife), to help her make her noodles the best in town. Goro’s…

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