Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-language film
Leisa Gwenllian is a force of nature as working-class heroine Effi in this big screen version of Gary Owen’s one-woman play
Berlin film festival head to keep job after Gaza free speech row
German government convened a crisis meeting after several prize winners condemned Israel’s actions against Palestinians
If the Berlin film festival ousts its director, there may be no way back
Hosting an audience-friendly festival in a highly political capital city has always been a challenge. If Berlinale’s organisers push out Tricia Tuttle over the latest Gaza row, they may as well give up trying
Yellow Letters wins Golden Bear at Berlin film festival dominated by Gaza row
Wim Wenders says German director İlker Çatak’s Turkey-set warning against creeping authoritarianism gave jury ‘chills’
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
Dust review – timely fictionalisation of a tech-bro dotcom bust that blighted rural Belgium
The drama about two startup innovators defeated by their egotistical overreach feels as if it presages these AI times
Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton among those to condemn Berlinale’s ‘silence’ on Gaza
At least 80 film-makers and stars sign open letter after German festival jury president Wim Wenders says they should keep out of politics
The Blood Countess review – Isabelle Huppert reigns supreme in a surreal vampire fantasia
Vienna turns into a playground of camp, cruelty and aristocratic disdain in a blackly comic take on the Báthory legend – with Huppert gloriously suited to the title role
At the Sea review – Amy Adams plays it overly straight in insufferable upper-middle-class drama
Shame, healing and personal growth are the order of the day in this humourless, self-adoring and vapid exploration of an artistic and narcissistic Cape Cod family
Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s captivating film follows a woman passing herself off a man in 17th-century rural Germany
Nightborn review – Rupert Grint bringing up a monster baby
Dark forces give new parents more than they bargained with in this unsubtle Finnish horror from Hanna Bergholm
The Education of Jane Cumming review – sexuality, race and a real school scandal
Sophie Heldman’s drama about two teachers accused of lesbianism by a pupil is exhilaratingly candid
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’
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
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