About Dry Grasses review – Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s absorbing drama of a teacher-pupil crisis

The latest film from the Turkish film-maker is a studied, Chekhovian film about a schoolteacher accused of abuse by a female student

Banel & Adama review – Senegalese village love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet

Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s debut film pairs reluctant chief Adama and troublesome widow Banel as they battle local hostility to continue their relationship

Helmut Berger, star of Visconti’s The Damned, dies aged 78

Acclaimed actor in European art cinema also secured a prominent role in US soap opera Dynasty

The Delinquents review – beguilingly surreal slow-motion Buenos Aires heist tale

If Pedro Almodóvar and Eric Rohmer teamed up to compose a meanderingly long crime caper it might look like this

Monster review – Hirokazu Kore-eda’s hydra of modern morals and manners

Japanese director Kore-eda offers a deliberately dense but ultimately hopeful examination of how to negotiate family dysfunction with intelligence and humanity

Johnny Depp on comeback trail in Cannes amid criticism of festival organisers

With protesters banned, the premiere of Depp’s first film in three years saw him receive a seven-minute standing ovation – but opponents argue he is being given a free pass

Tiger Stripes review – coming-of-age body horror releases the monster inside

Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu’s debut about a young girl discovering the truth behind her rebellious nature bristles with supernatural energy thanks to a tremendous young cast

Jeanne du Barry review – entertaining spectacle with Johnny Depp’s purring and peculiar royal dandy

Louis XV’s infatuation with a sexy, smart courtesan played by Maïwenn – who also writes and directs – is a preposterous confection with preening Depp’s king overshadowing her story

Under the Fig Trees review – beguiling battle of the sexes in Tunisian fields

Largely improvised, Erige Sehiri’s film packs argument, gossip, romance and social criticism into a busy day of fruit picking

Plan 75 review – Japanese euthanasia drama grapples with tough questions

Japan’s over-75s are offered a painless death in exchange for a modest payment in Chie Hayakawa’s slow-burning film

The Eight Mountains review – a movie with air in its lungs and love in its heart

A meditation on our capacity for love shapes this sweeping story of two friends, torn apart by family and life’s journeys but bound by something deeper

Plan 75 review – life is terminated at 75 in melancholy anti-euthanasia drama

To combat an ageing population, a future Japan passes a law to pay older citizens to sign up for an easeful death, in this weird and poignant film

Pamfir review – gripping Ukrainian crime thriller

A reformed smuggler takes one last trip across the Romanian border in Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s bold debut

Harka review – unflinching Tunisian drama

A gasoline seller with dreams of a better life is driven to despair in Lotfy Nathan’s powerful film inspired by real events

The Blue Caftan review – finely crafted Moroccan love story

The secret of a tailor’s homosexuality is woven into his married life in Maryam Touzani’s gently observed drama