‘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
Four Little Adults review – polyamory drama shows a Finnish couple working through their issues
Alma Pöysti stands out as a feminist politician in this irritatingly cosy portrait of a very complicated relationship worked out all too easily
Deep Sea review – underwater restaurant yarn cooks up dazzlingly psychedelic images
Kaleidoscopic visual overload is on the menu in this chaotic animation from the director of Chinese blockbuster Monkey King: Hero Is Back
Cold review – theatrically evocative folk-tale treatment of the pain of miscarriage
A man spins a story in a doctor’s waiting room, sparking a fairy tale of loss and desperation
Do Aur Do Pyaar (Two Plus Two Is Love) review – refreshingly nonjudgmental infidelity romcom
Vidya Balan shines in this witty remake that sees a married couple, both cheating on each other, on the verge of breaking up
‘My sons hated it’ … Shakira says Barbie film is ‘emasculating’
The Colombian pop star – and mother of two boys – disliked the global blockbuster, saying its message robs men of chance to ‘protect and provide’
‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family
Her father was Rudolf Höss, the camp’s commandant. He was arrested by the Jewish great-uncle of the writer Thomas Harding, to whom Brigitte gave this, her final interview – and confession
Motherboard review – enthralling smartphone self-portrait of family life
Victoria Mapplebeck’s documentary stitches 20 years’ worth of footage into a home video love letter to her son, whose whole life so far is observed