Vincent Cassel isn’t just menacing as a father figure raising a compound of child assassins in the feature debut of acclaimed short film director Ariel Kleiman.

This list is generally comprised of titles that got a run outside the festival circuit (so The Daughter, which played at Sydney film festival but is opening in cinemas in March, will be on next year’s), with a couple of exceptions: Spear, which premiered in Adelaide in October, will start to be rolled out shortly after you read this and we want you to be excited and The Suicide Theory, despite being shown in US cinemas and now US Netflix – may never receive distribution in Australia and it’s too good not to include.