David Allen’s documentary about a couple trying to run a profitable eco-business is an inspirational puff piece

From boxing gyms to train stations, Streetcasters are plucking people from obscurity and giving them leading roles. Here, the best tell all – including why they’re always mistaken for the police

The multi Oscar-winning director serves up a wonderfully dark take on the puppet boy who wants to live, while the life of a dairy cow is turned into a moving and beautiful documentary

From the Oscar-winning Drive My Car to festival favourite Hit the Road, a recent wave of road movies show the genre is thriving

Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films

The music is the action in Andrea Arnold’s intense tale of a young woman deep in a moshpit of flesh and excess but in charge of her own desires

Mark Stanley is terrific as an Aberdeenshire family man whose dreams have gone nowhere

The director has unleashed his latest broadside against Broken Britain. But with escapist cinema on the rise, can the genre survive?

Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000