James Baldwin left New York behind for Paris in November 1948. Filmmaker Yashaddai Owens paints an impressionistic portrait of these early days on rich 16mm black-and-white, capturing a transformative moment in the life of a young artist.

Raoul Peck's portrait of Ernest Cole, a South African photographer who was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience, resulting in his exile.

Drawing inspiration from both the silent serials of Louis Feuillade and Balzac's mammoth La Comédie humaine, Jacques Rivette's freewheeling epic, often referred to as cinema's "holy grail", is an all-consuming odyssey through the remnants of post-68 Paris.

The dog is apparently man's best friend, but what about its relationship to women? The immaculately groomed purebreds and dry humour of Good Girl... Sit Down! might seem miles apart from the languor of Dog Lady and its pack of mutts, but in both films, dogs figure as an important part of a woman's search for beauty and freedom.