At the date of publishing, here are my favourite moving images (seen via cinemas, art galleries, etc) that received their world premiere in 2018.

25. Gulyabani // Gürcan Keltek (trailer)

24. Enceindre // Luke Fowler

23. Mimesis: African Soldier // Jon Akomfrah

22. The Return // Malene Choi (trailer)

21. Black Mother // Khalik Allah (trailer)

20. Monelle // Diego Marcon (trailer)

19. Becoming Animal // Emma Davie, Peter Mettler (trailer)

18. Crazy Rich Asians // John M. Chu (trailer)

17. One or Two Questions // Kristina Konrad (trailer)

16. The Favourite // Yorgos Lanthimos (trailer)

15. Between my flesh and the world’s fingers // Talena Sanders (excerpt)

14. Aykan // Sebastian Buerkner

13. Ray & Liz // Richard Billingham (trailer)

12. Extinction // Salomé Lamas (trailer)

11. Black Pond // Jessica Sarah Rinland (trailer)

10. The Sun Quartet // Colectivo Los Ingravidos

9. Your Face // Tsai Ming Liang (trailer)

8. Shoplifters // Hirokazu Kore-eda (trailer)

7. Antigone // Tacita Dean

6. WORDS/ PLANETS // Laida Lertxundi

5. Consensual Healing // Carolyn Lazard (watch the full film on Vimeo)

4. Happy as Lazzaro // Alice Rohrwacher (trailer)

3. TERROR NULLIUS // Soda Jerk (trailer)

2. Make Me Up // Rachel Maclean (trailer)

1. The Grand Bizarre // Jodie Mack

I contributions to a selection of end of year round-ups, with various conflicting/complementary rules and regulations for: Sight & Sound; Notebook; CineVue and The Skinny. I also voted in the Online Film Critics Society’s annual awards.