My top 5 films are:

• There’s Still Tomorrow  

• Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger  

• The Outrun 

• Thelma 

• Every Little Thing 

My top 5 films are:

• Monster

• Asteroid City

• Afire

• Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

• Snow and the Bear

Here are my top 5 films from the 2022 Festival

• Pather Panchali

• All That Breathes

• The Quiet Girl

• Small Bodies

• Into the Ice

Here are my top films from the 2017 Festival:

• Ikiru / Living (1952)

• The Throne of Blood

• Yojimbo

• On Body and Soul

• High and Low

• The Farthest

• Red Beard

Here are my top films from the 2016 Festival:

• Certain Women

• Elvis and Nixon

• Weiner

• It's Only the End of the World

• Blood Father

• Down Under (just)

• Apprentice

• Winter at Westbeth

• Viva

• Gimme Danger

• Suburra

Here are my top films from the 2015 Festival:

• Certain Women

• Elvis and Nixon

• Weiner

• It's Only the End of the World

• Blood Father

• Down Under (just)

• Apprentice

• Winter at Westbeth

• Viva

• Gimme Danger

• Suburra

Here's a list of my top 11 favourite films of the festival, with my favourites first in both categories, and then in no particular order:

Fiction:

• Calvary

• Abuse of Weakness

• Fish and Cat

• Locke

• Two Days, One Night

• The Captive

Documentary:

• Keep on Keepin' On

• Particle Fever

• The Overnighters

• Faith Connections

• The Unknown Known.

Here are my top films from the 2013 Festival in no certain order:

• Frances Ha

• Child's Pose

• Wadjda

• Blancanieves

• Stories We Tell

• A Few Hours of Spring

• A Hijacking

• The Act of Killing

• This Ain't No Mouse Music

• Muscle Shoals

• The Summit

• The Past