Berlin film festival defends Wim Wenders after Arundhati Roy attacked ‘jaw-dropping’ comments
Berlinale head says artists should not be pushed into soundbites after author quit over president’s remarks that film-makers should ‘stay out of politics’
‘Every role I do, I’m going to be a Black man first’: David Jonsson on winning Baftas, rebooting Alien and leaving TV’s hottest show
He went from being the east London boy who was expelled from school to becoming the Bafta award‑winning star of Alien: Romulus. Ahead of his prison drama Wasteman, David Jonsson discusses the pressures of being a leading Black British actor
Animol review – gritty young offenders drama challenges conventional machismo
Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest film
To infinity and beyond! Visitors can dive into Pixar worlds in immersive London show
Shrink to toy-size or dive into an ocean in exhibition where studio brings Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Up to life
Plantation weddings and pre-civil war fashion: the film that critiques the historical fantasy of Natchez
A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement
‘Full of emotional wisdom’: Guardian writers on the best movie romances you might not have seen
For Valentine’s Day, writers picked their favourite lesser-known film love stories – from a dom-sub chamberpiece to a magical teen comedy
My cultural awakening: Thirteen influenced my hedonistic youth, until a psychotic episode ended it
My teenage self was shy and miserable, before a coming-of-age film unleashed an adolescence of drink, sex and drugs. It was a years-long party that eventually came crashing down
From Wuthering Heights to Mario Tennis Fever: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Emerald Fennell’s film brings the raunch to Brontë’s romance, while Nintendo’s beloved plumber stars in a colourful, family-friendly sports game
No Good Men review – intelligent and urgent Afghan romance
Shahrbanoo Sadat is a charming presence in front of the camera and a skilled film-maker behind in this shrewd and contemporary tale
Sunny Dancer review – ‘chemo camp’ gives teen drama a fresh spin
Bella Ramsey leads this likable coming-of-age story where the shared experience of adolescent cancer gives new warmth to a familiar genre
A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long
Johnny Flynn and John C Reilly offer casting heft, but this moody, technically sound tale of an unfolding epidemic in 1870s Wisconsin lacks emotional substance
‘It’s not a documentary’: costume designers on ditching accuracy for spectacle
Wuthering Heights is the latest film to turn heads over anachronistic costumes, but it’s not by any means the first
Everybody Digs Bill Evans review – absorbing delve into the tumultuous world of the great jazz man
Grant Gee’s film thoroughly inhabits the creative and personal torment experienced by the American pianist – with a terrific supporting Bill Pullman turn
Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics
From ‘honour’ killings to nuclear war, some screen works have led directly legislative action – despite what jury head Wenders suggested at the Berlin film festival
‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film
Staff at Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth embrace Emerald Fennell’s sex-laced take, while Emily Brontë’s most recent biographer calls BDSM version ‘a lot of fun’