Brenda Blethyn

Catherine Keener’s second collaboration with Nicole Holofcener shines with the actor’s breezy charm and the director’s wry insight. Co-starring a baby Jake Gyllenhaal and romcom heart-melter Dermot Mulroney, this lovely comedy looks on at the neuroses of American women with warm, honest affection.

Between the hit wartime epics Days of Glory (about North Africans fighting for France during WW2) and Outside the Law (Algerians fighting for independence), Rachid Bouchareb made this intimate drama about the 2005 London terror attacks, which won the Silver Bear in competition at the Berlinale.