Japan

Though it won Berlin Film Festival’s International Children’s Jury Prize this year, this film from Poland’s world famous Dorota Kędzierzawska  (Crows, A Time to Die, Nothing) is actually built for an adult audience.

Familial bonds are put to the test in this ultimately heart-warming road movie about an old man and his young granddaughter. The film is an exploration of commitment within Japanese culture from award-winning, 56-year-old director Masahiro Kobayashi’s original story.

The clash of steel against steel, in the grand scale of a Kurosawa epic, echoes across haunting, misty landscapes in multi-award-winning and prolific filmmaker Takeshi Miike's latest visual feast 13 Assassins.