The first Singaporean to have his films invited to major festivals—Toronto, Berlin and Cannes among others— Eric Khoo is the man behind this food-themed drama about the act of discovering your family roots. At once gentle and straightforward, Ramen Shop will undeniably work up an appetite.

Dark nights of the soul unspool in an homage to the late Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who mastered the art of manga as the black rain of world war fell across Japan. Adapting his autobiographical novel A Drifting Life to screen, this animation shares with the acclaimed epic a convulsive, dynamic intensity.