You have to admire US playwright Rajiv Joseph’s ambition in taking on war and God as his main themes in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. And the title shows he has originality, too.

If you think you know as much as you need about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, The Six Billion Dollar Man will prove you wrong. If you know nothing, it will inform and entertain you.

You want something to laugh about? How about Palestine.

What have Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus got in common? They were all the scene of end-of-Empire independence struggles against Britain.

You sense from the opulence of the Moroccan home in the opening scenes of Animalia that the director is setting us up for a fall.

You don’t see many plays in London about Black men locked up in secure hospitals for violent crimes. So well done, Sophia Griffin, who has made that scenario the subject of her debut play.

Despite being a story of events in Palestine 89 years ago, the release of Palestine 36 could hardly be more topical. To Palestinians, of course, every one of the subsequent years has been topical, historic and disturbing.

The Singh Twins deliver their latest artistic salvo on empire, trade, and this time, botany.

In the opening shots of Cutting Through Rocks Sara Shahverdi is lifting heavy metal gates onto their hinges, cutting stone and driving her motorbike across a sweeping rural landscape. This woman means business.

Director Shih-Ching Tsou sets up the scene with a mother and two daughters moving to Taipei to start new lives, but it’s grandfather’s shock at discovering the younger daughter is left-handed that supercharges the family story.

When Eghbal, driving at night, accidentally kills a dog, his young daughter is upset. It Was Just An Accident, says her mother dismissively in the front seat. But life is not always so simple.

Scenes From The Climate Era isn’t the last word on climate change, but it’s a lot of useful, fascinating, entertaining, amusing, frightening words on the biggest problem facing the planet.

It’s street versus home in Ish, a coming of age story about a Muslim British Asian in the Bedfordshire town of Luton.

Souleymane’s Story begins in an asylum assessment office in Paris and ends with an intense asylum interview that takes an unexpected turn.

The set-up is disarmingly simple: “Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian elections crisis, witnessing both the city’s magnitude and their father’s daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.”

Lights! Camera! Action! Yet another film about film-making and a disused cinema: this time it’s about Ghana, and it’s a delight.

Khartoum is a quietly beautiful, tragic film.

Here’s a collector’s item: a police procedural set in Cameroon.

The title of One Woman One Bra comes from a conversation between an awkward meeting between a gung-ho Western NGO worker and a desperate landless villager, Star.