Misericordia review – waking dream of a movie is one of the strangest films of the year
A man moves in with his employer’s widow in this playful but dreamlike and inscrutable drama from Alain Guiraudie, the director of Stranger By the Lake
‘A kitchen film with no food porn’: how Alonso Ruizpalacios sold Rooney Mara on his abortion drama
The Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios on making movies under the Trump-Vance administration, why Oscars don’t matter and his time as a khaki-shorted waiter at the Rainforest Cafe
When Autumn Falls review – a small gem of a mystery from François Ozon
Hélène Vincent is a treat as a devoted grandmother who isn’t quite what she seems in this understated French tale of family dysfunction
Santosh review – gripping police procedural about the murky side of modern India
Documentary-maker Sandhya Suri’s remarkable feature debut pitches a new female cop into a complex rural murder case
Satu – Year of the Rabbit review – scene-stealing runaways on picturesque road trip across Laos
Ittiphone Sonepho as temple orphan Satu and Vanthiva Saysana as budding journalist Bo hit the road on her dirt-bike to find his mother in Joshua Trigg’s charming odyssey
The Summer With Carmen review – crisply observed Greek film-making comedy
Two friends on a gay nudist beach are tasked with writing a low-budget movie in this fabulously frothy tale about love and a stray dog
Post your questions for François Ozon
The French auteur behind 8 Women, In the House and most recently When Autumn Falls is joining us to answer your questions, from how does he coax such amazing performances from actors to his visual influences
I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule
When a former congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda Torres
‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando
As the film that caused havoc at its Paris premiere resurfaces, the great French actor looks back on an extraordinary career, from the furore of Meetings With Anna to the meltdown of Apocalypse Now
Ari review – a French primary teacher flunks out in daydreaming misfire
The promising French director Leonore Serraille delivers a dud with this undercooked story of a selfish drifter who was once a talented educator and now can’t teach for toffee
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles review – sex, secrets and the unbearable silence of loneliness
A 50th-anniversary release for Chantal Akerman’s meticulous masterpiece, voted the best film of all time by Sight and Sound
Shanghai Blues review – delirious screwball comedy from Hong Kong’s Spielberg
Tsui Hark’s classic tale of love and mistaken identity, with plentiful helpings of farce and wackiness, has been restored for its 40th anniversary
By the Stream review – gentle college comedy of manners from Hong Sang-soo
The Korean director applies his languid style to the tale of a college campus coping with the arrival of a famous visitor
The Tasting review – French midlife romcom takes its leads guzzling fine wines
Easygoing tale has Hortense meet Jacques while buying a bottle at his shop, but the real star is the picturesque setting of Troyes
Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth
Victor Kossakovsky’s follow-up to Gunda is a gorgeously shot reverie about our use of materials such as stone and concrete