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
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