Awkward clapping, no-sand beaches and Alexander Skarsgård’s thigh-high boots: a trip to Cannes to see my film

Harry Lighton’s film Pillion is based on the novel Box Hill so, misgivings riding alongside, it felt right for the author to motorbike to the film festival for its premiere

Resurrection review – fascinating phantasmagoria is wild riddle about new China and an old universe

In Bi Gan’s ambitious alternate reality, where humans can live indefinitely, a reincarnating dissident dreamer travels through history in different guises

Woman and Child review – drama of rage and pain in the Iranian marriage market

Saeed Roustaee’s new film takes aim at a slippery, entitled male who thinks he can lord it over a widow he plans to marry

On the road to somewhere … Cannes film festival reminds us world cinema and ‘globalism’ are not the same

It might look like a platform for the films ‘produced in foreign lands’ that Donald Trump despises. But a surprising number of pictures at this year’s festival side with the locally rooted over cosmopolitan elites

Paul Mescal says comparing his film romance with Josh O’Connor to Brokeback Mountain is ‘lazy and frustrating’

In Cannes to promote The History of Sound, the actor said ‘I don’t see the parallels at all, other than we spent a little time in a tent’

Romería review – Carla Simón’s gripping pilgrimage tackles Aids, parents and the legacy of secrets

A young woman arrives in a Spanish coastal city to meet the family of her dead father, who are hiding information about his life and death, in Simón’s distinctive drama

‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state

Sentimental Value review – Stellan Skarsgård is an egomaniac director in act of ancestor worship

Joachim Trier’s entertaining drama sees Norwegian auteur-on-the-slide Skarsgård putting his showbiz family through the wringer in the service of his fading career

The History of Sound review – Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance is full-bodied but tin-eared

A love story of two folk song aficionados in the early days of recorded music is told with tiresomely mournful awe at its own sadness

The Six Billion Dollar Man review – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s rise, fall and limbo

Focusing on the rogue’s gallery of hypocrites and crooks surrounding him, Assange himself is in the background of a pretty definitive examination

Banned film-maker Jafar Panahi says friends lost hope he would direct again

Speaking during his first visit to Cannes in 22 years, Panahi who has previously been imprisoned in Iran said he wasn’t doing ‘anything heroic’

A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French-language Hitchcockian mystery

Foster plays a psychoanalyst who suspects her client may not have killed herself, and sets out to investigate with ex-husband Daniel Auteuil

Eleanor the Great review – June Squibb takes on Holocaust survivor trauma in Scarlett Johansson’s iffy directing debut

The 95-year-old actor gives an enjoyably twinkly performance in a film that misjudges how seriously its story should be taken

‘I think of those I left behind in prison’: Iran’s Jafar Panahi on life as a banned film-maker

He’s been jailed, gone on hunger strike and been forced to sell his house for bail. In his first newspaper interview for 15 years, the great director explains why every film is worth the consequences

Spike Lee says Highest 2 Lowest is his last film with Denzel Washington

Director says his fifth movie with the actor will probably be their last project together as Washington ‘has been talking about retirement’