2073 review – Asif Kapadia rages against the death of democracy and our planet

The documentary-maker loses some nuance but he is tackling big issues, as Samantha Morton picks through post-apocalyptic ruins in a sombre futurist reverie

Red Rooms review – fashion model fixates on a serial-killer in unsettling dark-web horror

Juliette Gariépy’s disquieting performance overcomes the more unbelievable elements of this tale of snuff-movie murder rooms

The Whip review – carer turns to crime in a heist movie with a conscience

Austerity-minded MPs are the target of this likable drama, in which a struggling carer hatches an implausible plan to get her own back on the government

My First Film review – charismatic new star beefs up audacious grad school-style project

Slippery and unsubtle, Zia Anger’s film about a film-maker is saved from self-indulgence by its sly humour

‘Always outsiders, always men, always white’: how women are changing the narrative of wildlife film-making

Three female film-makers talk about their pioneering work documenting nature in Africa, the Amazon and India, and paving the way for future generations to build a career in film

The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar spins a gorgeous, fragile tale of life and death

The Spanish director’s first English-language feature sees Tilda Swinton’s dying journalist trying to reconnect with an old friend played by Julianne Moore

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘There should be the possibility to have euthanasia all over the world’

The Spanish director’s latest film, The Room Next Door, in which Tilda Swinton plays a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life, premieres at the Venice film festival

‘Let them kick the crap out of the songs’: how we recreated the Beatles to make Backbeat

‘I knew people who said John Lennon was angry, insecure and cruel in the early days. When I met Ian Hart, I saw he could provide that’

Fitting In review – rare biological condition gets thrown into typical teen movie mix

Writer-director Molly McGlynn’s own experience adds a new dimension to the usual tropes of virginity loss, relationships and high school politics

Ian McKellen says he is fine but has ‘emotional residues’ after onstage fall

Actor, 85, says he is taking the rest of the year off after accident in June but plans to keep playing Gandalf

Fragile Memory review – a personal tribute to a prolific Soviet film-maker

Ihor Ivanko’s documentary looks at his grandfather Leonid Burlaka’s career through a treasure trove of undeveloped photos and explores the role film has in preserving history

Don’t Forget to Remember review – art, identity and the slow disintegration of dementia

This elegiac Irish film documents the relationship between street artist Asbestos and his mother, and the public art project he makes to help process his grief

Wolfs review – Pitt and Clooney are job-sharing loners in Spidey-meme of a thriller

Brad Pitt and George Clooney have near identical roles as veteran crime fixers who are called into the same assignment in a fun, infectious caper

I’m Still Here review – loving family negotiates the horror of Brazil’s military rule

Walter Salles’s first drama feature since 2012 tells the story of the Paivas, whose sunny 70s existence is wrecked by the arrest and disappearance of their father

Don’t believe supposed salary figures for new film Wolfs, says Clooney

At sweltering Venice film festival the actor denies that he and Brad Pitt have been paid $35m each