120 Beats Per Minute (aka 120 BPM)

Robin Campillo co-writes and directs this French drama centred on the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s. The film follows a group of activists as they try to effect change as part of the ACT UP movement in Paris. Frustrated by the government and the pharmaceutical industry's lack of action, the guerrilla group stages a number of public protests as they try to agree on a strategy and its passionate members struggle with their own experiences with the deadly virus.