One each from Mexico, the USA and Canada, showing the nifty footwork, pace and vision of the host nations' cinema.

Mexico's Amat Escalante follows a young man on the trail of his mother, whose political activism has seen her 'disappeared'. A fresh clue gives him a new direction to take, one of amorality and darkness as the idiotic rich and their impunity from consequence is exposed in unflattering light.

Inside his most complete and satisfying film, Mike Mills places many works in progress. There's the unfinished house and its restless owner (Annette Bening), plus the tenants trying to find their place in California as the '70s elapse. She corrals them into her most important project: shaping her teenage son to be a good man. Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning and Billy Crudup do great work in support.

Canada's most dependable attacker, David Cronenberg, scored with this early body horror, as parasites feed off human desire in order to propagate. Once called Night of the Loving Dead, its reputation was bolstered by a good old moral panic. Cronenberg paid his own price when his landlady claimed a morality clause in his tenancy was violated, and evicted him.