Alejandro González Iñárritu charged out of the gates with this combustible debut feature, planting the flag for a new golden age of Mexican cinema. A Cannes prizewinner that made a star of Gael García Bernal, Amores Perros is a feral urban odyssey with a bite to match the ferocity of its bark.

Pablo Larraín takes a dazzling look at sex, power, and family in modern-day Chile in this highly combustible mix of dance and drama. With an electrifying score by Nicolas Jaar, Ema is a whirlwind of no-holds-barred anarchy, anchored by searing turns from Mariana Di Girolamo and Gael García Bernal.

Delving into the myth of literary giant Pablo Neruda, Pablo Larraín fashions a clever subversion of the biographical genre. A whirlwind of meta-cinema starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Larraín’s “anti-biopic” inhabits the poet’s idiosyncratic universe to become a truly Nerudian film.