Michael Thomas

Impeccably styled and unflinchingly grim, this darkly humorous tale of a pop star past his prime finds Ulrich Seidl at his audacious best.

A milestone of feminist avant-garde cinema, Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons was conceived as an exploration of patriarchal myth-making and its gender politics, questioning how women can reclaim their history within patriarchal culture. Organised in five chapters using a variety of approaches to present the Amazonian queen from Greek mythology, the film remains a pertinent cinematic experiment.

Ukrainian Olga is a single mother who works as a nurse but whose salary doesn't cover her outgoings. After a brief foray into web-cam porn, she moves to Vienna in search of a better life only to find she is as exploited there as she was at home. Austrian Pauli is a loser who ends up helping his degenerate stepfather Michael shift a dodgy load of slot machines to East Europe.

A man with an unfaithful wife leaves the UK and goes to Singapore, where he steps into his deceased brother’s shoes, in both his business and family.

The third and last film of the "PARADISE" trilogy revolves around the coming of age first love for an overweight teen at a diet camp.