Sasquatch Sunset review – Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg suit up for ingenious Bigfoot comedy

Four mythical hairy creatures, communicating in grunts, inhabit what could be a post-apocalyptic world in the Zellner brothers’ witty and unnerving film

Dying review – the biggest conductor meltdown since Cate Blanchett’s Tár

Lars Eidinger plays the man embarking on a major orchestral project, but whose professional status is threatened by family turmoil behind the scenes

Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) review – lockdown memoir revives childhood bliss

Olivier Assayas’ thinly disguised autobiographical study of a film-maker’s Edenic experience during Covid isolation is a civilised pleasure

A Different Man review – Adam Pearson shines in oddball Doppelganger parable

The Under the Skin actor is a standout in a story starring Sebastian Stan as a man whose appearance is transformed by surgery

Last Swim review – a London school leaver’s complicated A-level results day

Deba Hekmat is impressively subtle as a British-Iranian teen whose celebrations come unstuck

My Favourite Cake review – charming portrayal of a 70-year-old Iranian’s appetite for romance

Heroine Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) is fiercely determined to revitalise her mundane existence and taste a better life

Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy’s piercingly painful Magdalene Laundries drama

Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s church’s abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history

Cillian Murphy calls Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries scandal a ‘collective trauma’

The Oppenheimer actor spoke about the abuses at the homes for unwed women ahead of the premiere of Small Things Like These, the new film about the scandal, at the Berlin film festival

Middle East crisis, Ukraine and far right combine to disrupt Berlin film festival

Jury president Lupita Nyong’o and colleagues were involved in a heated press conference opening a film festival with a history of political engagement

Do I want to watch arthouse films with fascists? No thanks, Berlin

With Germany rocked by revelations about the AfD, the Berlin film festival’s excuse for inviting them never made sense, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

Big swings, big misses and big deals: what happened at this year’s Sundance?

The 40th edition of the independent film festival saw some multimillion-dollar deals but also had attendees question if there was a drop in quality

‘I think therefore I scam!’ The lost masterpiece about the con artist who said he performed 36 successful hysterectomies

Chameleon Street, a true-crime comedy about the fraudster who purportedly passed as a lawyer, a surgeon and even a basketball-player, fell foul of a racist Hollywood. Can it now be a hit? We speak to its director

Sundance film festival roundup – Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, wild provocations and indie grit

The two stars had four films premiering between them in Utah, but the best performances came from Sebastian Stan and Saoirse Ronan, while a first-time director sold his horror film to Netflix for a cool $17m…

Dìdi review – a tender, specific rendering of adolescence on the early internet

Sundance film festival: Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical tale of an Asian American teen’s life played out online in 2008 is moving and detailed

It’s What’s Inside review – buzzy, big-sale Sundance thriller is a little empty

Netflix forked out $17m for the low-budget, high-concept mystery but while there’s some fun to be had, there’s something missing