If you've ever wondered how the likes of Guillermo Del Toro, Jane Campion, Guy Maddin or Alfonso Cuaron made their start, heres your chance to see some of their early and very detectable promise. Cinema 16's latest essential collection pulls in over five hours of film, focusing on the first short films of directors who have gone on to pull in the crowds in arthouses and cineplexes worldwide. Highlights include Maddin's typically surreal docu-fantasy presented by Isabella Rossellini, Del Toro's hugely entertaining tale of corrupt, coke-dealing cops outsmarted by a wily old lady, Andrea Arnold's Oscar-winning depiction of a Dartford single mother in Wasp and Alexander Sokurov's originally banned short Sonata for Hitler.

Hannah Lack