‘ET was a primitive glimpse of my queerness’: Lola Quivoron on aliens, motocross and non-binary cinema

The director of the intense new film about a scofflaw bike rider south of Paris, explains why they aim to film characters who escape all classification

Rodeo review – badass female racer stars in full throttle death-wish biker movie

Real-life rider Julie Ledru plays a young tearaway on the outskirts of Bordeaux, drawn to take desperate risks with a criminal biker gang

Love According to Dalva review – intense, raw study of girl abused by her father

When her father is arrested, 12-year-old Dalva takes his side in shocking drama rooted in careful research

‘A cinema of resistance’: how June Givanni amassed a 10,000-piece pan-African film archive

From a poster from Mogadishu film week to VHS videos of pioneering art movies, Givanni has collected the lot – and at last she has opened her legendary treasure trove to the public

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan review – one for all fans of roistering and horse-jumping

After a bromantic meet-cute with three grizzled veteran musketeers, the young fighter and his new gang journey entertainingly through palace intrigue with some excellent stunts

Private Desert review – elegant love story blooms in Brazil’s uneasy backwaters

A macho ex-cop falls for a mysterious stranger in this romance that doubles as a subtle state-of-the-nation drama

Sick of Myself review – like-chasing narcissist is focus of online fame horror-satire

A strong lead performance can’t save this unsubtle Norwegian film about a woman who goes too far in chasing social media clout

Godland review – a priest’s soul-shaking journey across Iceland

On a perilous quest to build a church in the wilds of Iceland, a zealous young Danish priest’s faith starts to crack in this striking historical epic

Godland review – beauty and terror in magnificent study of church-building priest

Hlynur Pálmason’s fictional account of a Danish pastor sent to Iceland in the 19th century is superb in its compositions and nuanced depictions of hostility

Three Colours: White review – Kieślowski’s expert black comedy of gangster capitalism

The middle film in the Colours trilogy features Julie Delpy as it takes a dagger to both France and Poland’s conception of equality and meritocracy

The thriller from Manila: how meta action comedy Leonor Will Never Die took the world by storm

The smart, retro-homage film from the Philippines went all the way to Sundance, winning one of the big awards. Film-maker Martika Ramirez Escobar talks about her inspirational grandparents, selling her car to fund her film and what it’s like to be a ‘hot young director’

Law of Tehran review – gritty Iranian crime thriller takes no prisoners

Saeed Roustayi’s tense policier about a cop hunting a drug kingpin deftly mixes brutality and gallows farce

Kill Boksoon review – intense Korean assassin thriller with satisfying complexity

This fast-moving yarn about a woman balancing contract killing with raising a teenage daughter has flair and depth to spare

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future review – heady Chilean eco fantasy

River pollution is the spur for debut director Francisca Alegría’s atmospheric Spanish-language fable with nature at its heart

1976 review – compelling drama of privilege and dissent in Pinochet’s Chile

Aline Küppenheim excels as a bourgeois housewife whose eyes are opened to the true cost of life in a military dictatorship