When I was seven, Jack Nicholson vomited cherry juice on me – it certainly beat doing schoolwork

Sassica Francis-Bruce regularly joined her father – a film editor – on set. As she grew older she loved working beside him in the cutting room

Rita Wilson looks back: ‘Cancer was terrifying, but now I see it as a gift. It gave me an extra lease on life’

The actor and producer on being a teenage model, making My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and the secret to long-lasting love

Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the lepidopterist who named them

Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward, womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this moving documentary

House of Gloss review – tender portrait of a young trans couple finding refuge in new kind of family

Away from outside discrimination, this documentary brings us into the home of graffiti artist Lana and drag queen Opal

We Are All Strangers review – two weddings and a baby in marvellously addictive family drama

Anthony Chen offers up a forthright but warm film that navigates romantic crises and Singapore’s infatuation with the rich

I confessed a deplorable secret about motherhood to a friend – and it changed my life

The ‘mum noir’ film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You brought back the difficulties of those challenging early days of parenthood, and the conversation that freed me up emotionally, writes Polly Hudson

Mother of Flies review – horror in the woods as house guests are microdosed with psychedelics

The Adams-Poser, a family of four who make low-budget horror films, return with a menacing tale of Solveig, a woman attempting to cheat death by strange means

Moving: an elegant portrait of 90s Japan through tweenage eyes

In this hypnotic, meditative film, a family’s breakdown sets a 12-year-old girl’s coming-of-age in motion as she constructs various ploys to reverse her parents’ separation

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost review – Ben Stiller’s moving study on the price his family paid for showbiz

Stiller’s documentary about his parents, comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, is a tender reflection on marriage and what it costs to keep smiling in the entertainment business

My foolproof guide to living with a partner – and not falling out about home decor

After years of marriage, my husband thinks I’m still trying to find his hideous painting of Bobby Moore ‘the right frame’ so it can go on the wall. It’s these subtle interior design lies that keep a relationship going, writes Polly Hudson

Deaf review – cinema as empathy machine as a deaf mother struggles with parenting issues

Angela’s apparently idyllic family life begins to fray when she becomes pregnant and the hearing world’s old prejudices are reawakened

‘If something goes wrong in childbirth, how will I know?’ The unflinching film about parenting with deafness

Giving birth is gruelling enough for mothers with hearing – but as the sisters behind gripping new drama Deaf explain, for disabled women labour can be brutal and traumatic

The Courageous review – rebellious mum on the edge will have you sobbing in sympathy

Call My Agent!’s Ophélia Kolb leads a Swiss drama with morally ambiguous realism reminiscent of the Dardenne brothers

Father Mother Sister Brother review – Blanchett and Rampling pick at family guilt in Jarmusch’s delectable triptych

Jim Jarmusch explores the awkwardness, guilt and the closeness of parents with their grownup children in three slyly comic panels of drama set in the US, Dublin and Paris

Daruma review – disabled veteran is landed with a four-year-old in soft-hearted indie road movie

A surly war vet takes in the daughter he never knew he had in a well-intentioned but overly sentimental film