Some of the top prize winners on the international film festival circuit have been selected by organisers for the Bermuda International Film Festival?s World Cinema Showcase including the Pedro Almodovar?s critically-acclaimed ?Volver? and two Oscar-nominated documentaries.

?Deliver Us From Evil? and ?My Country, My Country? are two of documentaries up for the Academy Award on Sunday night.

They will be screened as part of the World Cinema Showcase over the March 16-24 event along with 11 other feature films.

Details of the films follow:

(d. Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 89 minutes, subtitled)

Sixteen years after Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu fled Bucharest in a helicopter at eight minutes past noon, the owner of a local television station invites two guests onto his talk show to share their memories of that celebrated revolutionary time. The result is a hilarious, smart and highly original film. The only guests that host Jderescu (Teodor Corban) can round up are Manescu (Ion Sapdaru), a hard-drinking history teacher, and elderly retiree Piscoci (Mircea Andreescu), who works as a part-time Santa Claus. The guests proudly share stories of their heroic contributions to the town?s rebellion ? but then viewers begin to call in with their recollections. Weren?t the two guests just boozing in a bar that day ? or doing their Christmas rounds? Winner, Best First Film, Cannes Film Festival.

n(d. Paul Verhoeven, Netherlands-Germany-UK-Belgium, 135 minutes)

In the late summer of 1944, pretty Jewish chanteuse Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) is waiting out the war, separated from her family and a moment away from being caught by the Gestapo. She joins the Resistance, and infiltrates the German security service. Her mission soon finds her charming a high-ranking official (Sebastian Koch) and, without any warning, she is swept into a spider?s web of intrigue, treachery and betrayal that even sheds light on the ambush that wiped out her family.

(d. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey-France, 101 minutes, subtitled)

Isa and Bahar, played by the real-life married couple of the filmmaker and his wife, Ebru, are in a relationship that has become fractured. While on holiday, they have dinner with another couple, enjoy time in the sun and go on a motorbike ride ? but it?s clear that their relationship is falling apart. Isa is a difficult, flawed man, and Bahar leaves for Istanbul ? alone. In the fall, he takes up with a beguiling former lover, Serap ? their rough sex is a startling vignette. In winter, he hears that Bahar has left the capital to work in the east of the country ? and so he goes to the mountains to find her, and to raise the possibility of a reunion. This beautiful, poignant film subtly captures the emotional tremours existent in a stale relationship.

Winner, FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, Cannes Film Festival.

n(d. Amy Berg, United States, 101 minutes)

Over the past decade, the Catholic Church has been rocked by a series of shocking scandals involving priests accused of molesting young children of both genders. Amy Berg delivers a shattering and revealing account of the human cost of this issue. She tells the story of Father Oliver O?Grady, a notorious paedophile who used his position ? as well as his Irish charm ? to rape and abuse members of dozens of Catholic families across northern California over a 20-year period. The most astonishing thing about Deliver Us from Evil is O?Grady?s participation in the film.

Nomination, Best Documentary, Academy Awards.

(d. Jasmila Zbanic, Bosnia and Herzegovina-Austria, 92 minutes, subtitled)

First-time feature director Jasmila Zbanic has crafted a powerful film about love, truth and the after-effects of war. Single mother Esma lives with her 12-year-old daughter Sara in Sarajevo?s Grbavica neighbourhood, where life is still being reconstructed after the 1990s Yugoslav wars. Sara?s father becomes an issue when she requires a certificate proving he died a ?shaheed?, or war martyr, so that she can receive a discount for an upcoming school trip. Realising her mother has paid full price for the school trip, Sara aggressively demands the truth. Their confrontation is painful, but it brings hope for a renewed relationship between mother and daughter.

Winner, Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival.

n (d. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany, 137 minutes, subtitled)

The filmmaker?s feature debut is a beautifully written and exceptionally staged recreation of the nightmare years of the German Democratic Republic. The regime wrapped itself in the rhetoric of a worker?s paradise while building a living hell and waging a cold war on its citizens. It is 1984: Glasnost is a million miles away and a government minister, used to exploiting his position to eliminate rivals in politics or love, takes a fancy to Christa-Maria, a beautiful, popular and very attractive actress. She is living with one of the country?s most popular ? and loyal ? playwrights, Georg. While fellow writers have fallen out of favour, Georg has curried connections and is feted as a cultural superstar. However, the couple?s apparently safe little world is about to be turned upside down.

Winner, Best Film, European Film Awards.

(d. Laura Poitras, United States, 90 minutes)

Working alone in Iraq over eight months, director/cinematographer Laura Poitras creates an extraordinary intimate portrait of Iraquis living under US occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic of the occupation, he is equally passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq, arguing that Sunni participation in the January 2005 elections is essential. Yet all around him, Dr. Riyadh sees only chaos, as his waiting room fills each day with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence.

Nomination, Best Documentary, Academy Awards.

n(d. Jafar Panahi, Iran, 88 minutes, subtitles)

Many young Iranian women love soccer but they are prevented by law from attending live matches in their country. Inspired by the day when his own daughter was refused entry to a soccer stadium in Iran, the film follows a day in the life of a group of young women who attempt to watch their team?s World Cup qualifying match against Bahrain. A disparate group, united only by their desire to see their beloved team play, disguise themselves in myriad ways, risking arrest to try to get into the match. They are all caught and taken to a holding area where they can hear the roar of the crowd but cannot see what is happening in the match. Hilariously offbeat, this delightful comedy also features some quietly intelligent observations on authoritarian rule and the treatment of women.

Winner, Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival.

(d. Andrea Arnold, United Kingdom-Denmark, 113 minutes)

Director Andrea Arnold?s highly accomplished first feature is set in Red Road, the name of a run-down high-rise tenement block in Glasgow. Jackie (Kate Dickie) works as a CCTV operator. Each day, she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. Many of her days are routine, but one day a man appears on her monitor ? a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. As Jackie stalks her quarry in this white-knuckle thriller, the filmmaker?s brilliant command of tension and atmosphere builds to an explosive finale.

Winner, Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival.

n(d. Rolf de Heer, Australia, 92 minutes)

This extraordinary film, featuring only aboriginal Australians who speak the aboriginal language, allows the viewer to experience a traditional story telling. Introduced by a present day narrator who speaks in English, the film is actually two stories nested inside one another; one is set 1,000 years ago, the other a very, very long time before that. They are the same story and we come to realise that the tales of the ancients and the lessons they teach are still as relevant today as they were at the beginning of the world. The story, full of sorcery, gluttony, kidnap and revenge, is told to teach a younger brother the proper way to live.

Winner, Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival.

(d. Kim Ki-duk, South Korea, 96 minutes, subtitles)

Prolific filmmaker and enfant terrible of Korean cinema, Kim Ki-duk explores the dark, jealous core of a relationship gone wrong in this film about obsessive love. Ji-woo and his girlfriend, Seh-hee, are lovers who should simply be enjoying the gift of their mutual love. But she becomes obsessed with the thought that his passion will wane ? and that he will become tired of seeing her face daily. Seh-hee decides to have cosmetic surgery in order to re-invent herself for Ji-woo. She disappears from his life, and the frantic Ji-woo searches for her to no avail. He meets other women, but rejects them until he falls under the spell of one of them.

Winner, Best International Film, Chicago International Film Festival.

(d. Francisco Vargas Quevedo, Mexico, 99 minutes, subtitles)

In a time of war, everyone must do his part. Francisco Vargas Quevedo?s debut feature, expanded from his well-received short of the same name, is a tender and poignant film about the 1970s peasant revolution in the Guerrero region of Mexico. Shot in black and white, and unfolding with a dreamlike languor, the film tells the story of the quietly dignified Don Plutarco (Don Angel Tavira), his son Genaro (Gerardo Taracena) and grandson Lucio (Mario Garibaldi), who make a living as travelling musicians. They also live a secret life, collecting supplies for the guerrilla movement that has arisen in response to the tyrannical regime. When the army occupies their home village, they must find a way to salvage a secret arms cache.

Winner, Best Actor (Don Angel Tavira), Cannes Film Festival.

(d. Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 120 minutes, subtitles)

With this film, Almodovar comes back to comedy, to the female world ? and to his birthplace, La Mancha. Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality. They are Raimunda (Penelope Cruz), who is married to an unemployed labourer and has a teenage daughter (Yohana Cobo); Sole (Lola Duenas), her sister, who makes a living as a hairdresser; and the mother of both (Carmen Maura), who died in a fire along with her husband.

Winner, Best Director and People?s Choice, European Film Awards.