The Bilbaos review – soulful study of a tough guy boxer dealing with emotional baggage
Pedro Speroni’s documentary follows Iván Bilbao’s return from prison to a family full of troubles and tenderness
‘I couldn’t tell my parents I loved them’: documentary-maker Duncan Cowles on giving silent men a voice
The Scottish film-maker on bringing humour to his look at male emotional repression, being compared to Louis Theroux, and his problems with reality TV
One Mother review – poignant memoir grapples with trauma of foster care
Mickaël Bandela’s documentary reflects on the events that left him in care as a child, and the generational losses that came before
A Long Journey Home review – family pressures reach boiling point in a shocking documentary
It’s almost painful to watch this oppressive autobiographical film, pieced together from footage the director shot in her family’s Chinese home
Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives review – fresh take on pregnant-woman-in-peril horror
Unfolding in what looks like a single take, Thomas Sieben sends his protagonist into a house that’s haunted by historical trauma
‘I miss him being here’: A daddy-daughter dance inside a jail is captured in a gripping new film
The documentary, shot over years, pushes audiences to ask: who is being punished when we send fathers away?
A Life Like Any Other review – wonderfully moving look back at a mother’s resilience
Faustine Cros’s documentary revisits home videos from her childhood through fresh eyes having learned as an adult what her young self had missed
‘Sobbing in the aisles’: writers on their most memorable parent-kid film experiences
Whether a terrifying Postman Pat, a mortifying sex scene, or a brush with button-phobia, our writers report on the family viewing they will never forget
A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived
Many struggling cinemas depend on sales of pricey food and drink as ticket revenue mainly goes to film studios. But does banning outside supplies really add up, asks Stuart Heritage
Reggie Yates looks back: ‘I went from a council estate to working with the people I watched on TV’
The actor and broadcaster on how his mum kept him grounded, an awkward encounter with Sting, and why making documentaries changed him
Bye Bye Tiberias review – heartfelt memoir of Palestinian family reunion in Galilee
Hiam Abbass, AKA Marcia Roy from Succession, returns to the village she left 30 years ago to become an actor, with her daughter Lina Soualem behind the camera
Ultraman: Rising review – endearing kaiju animation battles the monster that is parenting
Appealing superhero film saddles a kaiju fighter with an orphaned infant, who brings challenges to test supernanny’s domestic mettle
Àma Gloria review – amazing performances in sensitive drama about a kid and her nanny
Six year old Louise Mauroy-Panzani is wonderful as Cléo, strongly bonded to her carer Gloria, who has to leave her
Four Little Adults review – polyamory drama shows a Finnish couple working through their issues
Alma Pöysti stands out as a feminist politician in this irritatingly cosy portrait of a very complicated relationship worked out all too easily
Deep Sea review – underwater restaurant yarn cooks up dazzlingly psychedelic images
Kaleidoscopic visual overload is on the menu in this chaotic animation from the director of Chinese blockbuster Monkey King: Hero Is Back