Los Debutantes
This Chilean thriller features Antonella Rios as a fearless exotic dancer whose routine involves covering herself in whipped cream. She’s so effective that two mob-bound brothers must compete for her heart, despite the fact that her boyfriend is a mob boss.
Tough-minded if ultimately derivative crime noir from first time writer/director Andrés Waissbluth.

Madagascar
Fresh from DreamWorks comes an animated feature that about zoo animals who want to find out what it is like to live in the wild. Voices by Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Ben Stiller and Sacha Baron Cohen round out this bright, harmless fluff made to keep the youngest viewers entertained.

One Love
This nicely plotted love story centres on the romance between a rasta musician (Ky-Mani Marley, son of Bob Marley) and a gospel singer (Cherine Anderson) whose deeply religious father gets in the way of all their fun. A good, old-fashioned morality tale set in Jamaica with a choice soundtrack.

Tiresia
A sexually-oriented shocker by French director Bertrand (The Pornographer) Bonello centres on the mythic implications of a surgically unfinished Brazilian transsexual who is kidnapped and left blinded by a roadside when her hormones run out. Beautifully shot, alluring and irritating all at once.

Process
An oddly transfixing European art-house film made by American writer/director CS Leigh, this drama tells of an ailing actress’s suicide after tragic life events. Shot in 29 separate scenes featuring little dialogue, it stars Beatrice Dalle and Guillaume Depardieu.

EMR
An award-winning drama about an epileptic conspiracy theorist who finds himself in the arc of either his medication or his illness was made on a budget of £40,000. It is also apparently the first film to receive a simultaneous cinematic, DVD and internet release.

The Heart is Deceitful – Above All Things
Peter Fonda and Asia Argento star in a harrowing drama of a seven-year-old boy who goes to live with his young addict mother after years in foster care. Based on the autobiographical tales of JT LeRoy, the dangers to the boy increase when he is flung upon the mercies of his religious cult-following grandparents. Argento also directs this emotional if uneven banquet of childhood terror.