Guardian-produced Gaza documentary from Oscar-winning Israeli directors of No Other Land to screen at Venice film festival

Film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, co-directors of No Other Land along with Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal , investigates ‘Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians’ during the war

‘I love provocative stories’: producer Christine Vachon on fighting for her ‘offensive’ movies

The maker of indie classics Kids, Swoon and Poison on daring to have a temper in the 90s, what some producer credits mean – and what happened between her and Joaquin Phoenix

Mission review – dangerous quest to mend a broken childhood

George MacKay plays a troubled restaurant worker embarking on bleak inner and outer journeys reflecting the pressures on young men

Borges and Me review – a sweetly imagined literary odyssey through the Highlands

Luis Gnecco brings warmth, wit and quiet melancholy to Jorge Luis Borges in this gently enchanting adaptation of Jay Parini’s semi-fictional memoir

Snapshot review – fun found-footage scarer follows amateur Ripper hunters in the 1880s

A women’s spiritualist investigation team go after the serial killer, braving evil forces conjured into being by fear, misogyny and political rage

These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling

A taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance film

Mad Rush review – an intricate phone scam isn’t quite enough to drive this very Melbourne movie

In Hollywood’s hands this would be a pulse-pounding thriller, but Maddelin McKenna’s lithe feature debut is all about street-level authenticity

Post your questions for Robert Carlyle

Bond villain, Begbie, male stripper … the Trainspotting and Full Monty star has played everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Rumpelstiltskin. As his latest directorial project premieres in Edinburgh, he is here to answer your questions

Brian Robinson obituary

Other lives: BFI press officer and programmer for its Flare film festival

Borges, ballet and BDSM: 10 must-see movies at Edinburgh international film festival

The great Argentinian’s Highlands holiday, a mischievous doc about Jack the Ripper, the hypnotic latest from Nicolas Winding Refn and a kinky noir romp are among the best of this year’s lineup

Edinburgh international film festival showcases a Scottish industry in rude health

This year’s festival is superpowered by a strong year for Scottish cinema, showing it can thrive under the ‘four dimensional perpetual catch-22’ of global ambitions

In Venice, it’s not politics as usual as film-makers aim to recapture our attention

As social media shrinks and distorts the EU’s crises, the Venice film festival is delivering politically forthright epics from directors such as Sergei Loznitsa and Alex Gibney

‘I turned down Gandhi because I’m terrified of snakes’: the amazing movie memories of Bruce Dern

Famed for playing loners, cranks and wayward angels, the Hollywood star is now a wolfish 90 – but he still jogs daily. As he takes his latest film to Edinburgh, we meet the man Hitchcock called ‘the golden calf’

I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming review – brilliant bulletin from Ukrainian frontline dives deep into culture war

A couple attempting to leave Ukraine when the war begins encounter gender identity issues in this bold and challenging film

On tour with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth and Foo Fighters: raw music documentary captures Australia’s ‘best summer’

In 1995, US film-maker Tamra Davis travelled to Australia to capture the one-off Summersault tour on her camcorder. Thirty years on she has made The Best Summer, an intimate snapshot of an era that can never be repeated