A shortlist of six films is made by the UK's leading critics, film-school heads and festival directors from the foreign language films released in that year in the UK. The winner is selected by a panel of judges whose decision making process is screened as part of the award ceremony, screened live on BBC Four.
Against the backdrop of more than a decade of austerity, high unemployment, and a pandemic of mental ill-health, Brassed Off serves to remind us of the importance of community in hard times. Set…