Roschdy Zem

Before he won acclaim for Of Gods and Men, French actor-turned-director Xavier Beauvois scored with this excellent, layered police drama, featuring an award-winning performance from Nathalie Baye.

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.