Babel (2006)

Alejandro González Iñárritu's multi-strand globe-spanning drama featuring Gael García Bernal in a pivotal Mexican sequence won the Best Director prize at Cannes and completes his trilogy of linked-narrative films begun with Amores Perros. The film's portrayal of the Mexico-US border and of the vulnerability of migrant domestic workers is one of the most politically resonant in Mexican-produced cinema.