Soon after the Thompson family’s arrival in the countryside, the three children – Joe, Beth, and Fran – discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents, including Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot, and Saucepan Man. At the top of the tree, they’re transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the Thompsons learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years.

Based on the Enid Blyton classic children’s story, the cast also includes British stars Lenny Henry, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Palin, Rebecca Ferguson, Mark Heap and Simon Russell-Beale.

Jim Jarmusch’s Venice Golden Lion-winning comedy navigates the sometimes tender, sometimes awkward interactions between the bohemian generation and their adult children.

A return to the interlinked stories and international panorama format of Night on Earth, Jarmusch’s drama features a series of stories that concern familial relationships marked by emotional detachment. An engaging character study whose connecting motifs subtly reveal themselves, it’s beautifully shot by Frederick Elmes and Yorick le Saux, and features a fine cast, including the director’s lucky charm, Tom Waits, along with Charlotte Rampling, Vicky Krieps and Indya Moore.

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.

Starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson

Raoul Peck channels the clarity and urgency of George Orwell’s prose into a gripping cinematic statement – elegant, forceful and uncompromising.

Narrated by Damian Lewis and shaped by Alexandra Strauss’s electric editing, Peck’s film lends Orwell’s prescient observations renewed urgency. His visually compelling direction, which blends layered narration and archival juxtapositions, finds Orwell’s words sharp and unsettling, echoing through a fractured present and becoming a clarion call for an examination of the mechanics of power, propaganda and systemic violence. It’s a timely work, infused with timeless critique.

In Hasan Hadi’s engrossing debut, a young girl is faced with the challenge of baking a cake for her school’s celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday.

Though considered a great honour, nine-year-old Lamia’s task feels impossible, as she and her grandmother Bibi already struggle to get by. But armed with a shopping list and her pet rooster, Lamia remains determined as she sets off to find ingredients. A child’s eye view of a dictatorship, The President’s Cake skilfully navigates between the comic and the tragic.