If you’ve ever loved, this story of an elderly couple facing the unthinkable – one half of their familiar, codependent unit fading away – will touch a raw nerve.

London’s mean streets and the escalating gang culture that eats up our youth are brought to vivid life in Sally El Hosaini’s searing portrait of modern England.

The voice of the film is one of beauty and innocence, narrated by six-year-old Hushpuppy, as she navigates her world of near orphanhood.

The Pool manages to transcend the standard clichés about India – a feat made more triumphant by the fact that the writer and director are foreigners.

Rust and Bone is a deeply affecting portrait of the gradual coming together of two wounded souls, driven by a brave central performance by Marion Cotillard.

Eugene Jarecki, director of Why We Fight, takes a fascinating, gritty look at the American criminal justice system.

Arriving on the art scene in the 1970s, Linder Sterling is known for her subversive collages combining the female figure with objects and nature.

The Harbourfront Centre in Toronto presents a collection of works from around the globe for World Stage, developing dialogues between cross-cultural performance.

The past five years have seen the music video evolve, resulting in stronger and stranger narratives than ever before.

Cambridge-based four-piece Alt-J spent 2012 scooping up the Mercury Prize, releasing their debut album and gaining plaudits from the music industry at large.

The latest documentary from Marc Isaacs explores universal themes of loss, belonging and the search for home through careful observation of one neighbourhood in North London.

In Scott Graham’s debut feature, a father and daughter coexist in isolation and a relationship marked by complexity.

Alex Prager captures images loaded with tension that balance on anticipation. Her photographs tell a subversive narrative that has either come to its climax or is on the precipice of conclusion.

In the Siberian town of Tiksi, the sun never shows its face in winter. Tiksi is the birth place of photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva and the source of inspiration for this breathtaking collection of photographs.

Henri Cartier-Bresson worked by the ethos of “the decisive moment”, whereby he aimed to seize something the very moment it happened.

MoMA ignores the stereotypes surrounding Japanese art as it takes a look at the burgeoning contemporary art scene during the 20th Century.

New works by the influential artist Isa Genzken challenge the dominant norms of gender and scale within sculpture in a new show at Hauser & Wirth, London.

A new exhibition of colour photography by Dorothy Bohm at The Museum of London celebrates women and challenges representation.

The radical work of Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovic opens in london this winter,
exploring ideas of identity, political unrest and the heroines overlooked by time.

Lyric Hammersmith and Vesturport bring their acrobatic and daring adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis back to the theatre for 2013.