Streaming: the best farming films
Award-winning Catalan peach farm drama Alcarràs joins an impressive crop of movies about living off the land, from Minari and The Grapes of Wrath to Babe
The Beasts review – unsettling rural noir is a Euro-arthouse twist on Straw Dogs
Middle-class incomers to a remote village in Spain’s ‘wild west’ expose fear, resentment and nationalism in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s disturbing true-crime drama
1976 review – nerve-jangling noir unpicks middle-class guilt of Pinochet era
A wealthy woman is drawn into Chile’s anti-Pinochet resistance in this thrilling feature debut from actor turned director Manuela Martelli
The Five Devils review – superpower sense of smell in intriguingly weird psychodrama
A child’s Perfume-style ability enables her to witness emotional crises in her parents’ past, in this disquieting movie
The Killer review – super-violent South Korean thriller with well-coiffed assassin
A retired mercenary must free a kidnapped teen in this lurid and drum-tight thriller
The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future review – gripping tale sprinkled with animal magic
Chilean director Francisca Alegría weaves together singing cows and family trauma in this thoughtful magical realist fable with an environmental message
The Whisper of Silence review – coffee-taster drama makes most of stunning locations
Alfonso Quijada’s feature follows a young woman gifted with an extraordinary sense of smell. It looks great, but fails to satisfy
Winners review – a gentle Persian-language homage to cinema
Scottish-based Hassan Nazer’s drama, filmed in Iran, is slight but powered by its young, non-professional cast
Winners review – Oscar statuette goes missing in free-spirited ode to Iranian cinema
An award belonging to director Asghar Farhadi goes missing in Iran in this slow-paced, heart-on-sleeve comedy about the curative magic of the movies
‘Eighty-nine perfect minutes’: 30 of the best short films and novels
Is the trend for epic movies and hefty novels getting too much? Our critics redress the balance with a classic compilation of shorter works – plus 10 long ones that are worth your time
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom review – Bhutan school drama is a breath of fresh air
A disillusioned teacher is sent to a remote Himalayan school in this charming, visually stunning first feature
Charcoal review – tremendous thriller has family looking after mafia interloper
A Brazilian family struggling with their ailing grandfather are offered an unusual way out in Carolina Markowicz’s darkly comic and suspenseful feature debut
Electric Malady review – dreamlike study of one man’s debilitating illness
Swedish director Marie Lidén’s documentary about a musician with a chronic sensitivity to electricity is desperately sad yet visually poetic
Close review – achingly poignant tale of the end of a childhood friendship
Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s Oscar-nominated drama about two inseparable boys tragically driven apart is a low-key treat
Electric Malady review – life under a blanket for man who fears ‘electrosenstivity’
This tactful documentary follows William, living in a tinfoil-covered cabin and covered in a blanket. But is there anything behind his condition?