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‘Kids were second to their drinking and partying’: Stephen Bogart, son of Bogie and Bacall, on his screen icon parents

What’s it like to grow up the son of Hollywood legends? Stephen Bogart, whose parents left him for six months even after his nanny dropped dead, reveals how he finally shook off the past

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

April review – Dea Kulumbegashvili comes into her own with haunting abortion drama

Shocking violence is tempered by strange, silent sequences in a sophomore feature about an obstetrician under investigation, in which buried trauma has echoes of The Piano Teacher

‘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

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