This week's new film events

Cinema Made In Italy , London Though we don't get to see that much of it here, Italian cinema is still going strong. This renamed festival shows some of the depth, with new films at Ciné Lumière, and older stuff at the Italian Cultural Institute. The new movies cover some familiar Italian preoccupations: organised crime (boxing thriller Tatanka, from a story by Roberto "Gomorrah" Saviano), family (Kryptonite) and coming of age (Summer Of Giacomo). But there are also new angles on Italian culture, such as Li And The Poet, dealing with a Chinese immigrant in Venice, and sci-fi The Last Man On Earth. Many of the films on show are UK premieres, including Scialla!, and there are films selected by the Corriere della Sera's top critic, TV sporting dramas and a tribute to the late Sicilian documentarian Vittorio De Seta. Ciné Lumière, SW7, Sat to Thu; Italian Cultural Institute, SW1, Thu to 30 Mar Flatpack Film Festival , Birmingham This joyously inventive event interprets the notion of a film festival loosely enough to incorporate an evening of psychedelic projections and live space rock, an audience-participation remake of Citizen Kane, a Birmingham Noir walking tour, and a "gif shop" where you can make your own animation and play it on a record deck. Elsewhere, there's puppet animation, cult 1970s cartoon movies with rock soundtracks, new films by Herzog and Kaurismäki, satanist hippies, zombie bikers and even synthpop-producing Icelandic grannies (Grandma Lo-Fi). Various venues, Wed to 18 Mar Shûji Terayama , London Terayama's activities in the postwar Japanese avant garde ranged from film-maker to playwright to poet to horse racing tipster, and subversion seems to have been the only constant. His highly experimental films often took aim at traditional society, and 1971's Emperor Tomato Ketchup details a child revolt against the adult world, with more sex and violence than any film-maker would dare today. The other films in this brief survey are equally confrontational, surprising and bizarre, but in myriad ways – from direct engagement with the audience to surreal imagery to satirising Japan's relationship with the west. Tate Modern, SE1, Fri to 25 Mar 14th London Asian Film Festival , London It's generally only one type of south Asian movie that gets released in the UK but this festival casts its net wider, without excluding Bollywood completely. The presence of Abhishek Bachchan doesn't immediately scream indie, nor does Guzaarish, starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai, but you'll be satisfied by the likes of Michael, a survey of Kolkata lives, or a documentary on Pakistan's persecuted transgender community. Of the safe bets there's the box office-busting Bol, but look out for a fair amount of culture crossing: Lucky, about a South African boy adopted by an Indian woman; and The Desire – A Journey Of A Woman, which details a love affair between a Chinese painter and an Indian Odissi dancer, played by Shilpa Shetty. Various venues, Fri to 24 Mar