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.

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.

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.

Uprooted is a nerve-jangling howl of protest - against the rape of Latin America’s natural resources, its indigenous peoples, its environmental defenders, many of whom are women.

The subject of Kerry James Marshall’s paintings are Black people. Very black people. He ignores the many hues and shades of Africa and the diaspora.

Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict is tough viewing, and some people understandably will not want to see it.

Snakes rarely get a good press, but they almost steal the show in the British Museum’s exhibition, Ancient India: living traditions.

There’s no doubt about the relevance of the Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition, Thirst: In Search of Freshwater.

It’s a pleasing idea: 11 individuals fan out across 54 African countries to compile a state-of-the-continent report for the Arcola Theatre stage.

Hind Meddeb’s documentary is called Sudan, Remember Us. And we should.

Little Brother is Ibrahima Balde’s extraordinary journey from a Guinean village, across a desert dotted with the bodies of migrants, hours of feet-blistering walking, to torture, slavery and vile racist abuse (“Libya is not a place for the living”), and to an overcrowded slowly-sinking boat to Europe.