Decision to Leave review – Park Chan-wook at his playful, slinky best

A married detective contemplates infidelity in the Korean director’s seductive, multilayered crime drama

The Gravedigger’s Wife review – gentle, funny drama of man and his sick spouse

Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s strong, big-hearted film is the classy story of a man seeking money for his wife’s operation

After Blue (Dirty Paradise) review – a sapphic sci-fi slog

Bertrand Mandico’s kitsch erotic tale set on an all-female planet sounds more fun than it is

The Cordillera of Dreams review – a poetic portrait of Chile

The Andes become a metaphor for Chile’s rocky political history in Patricio Guzmán’s highly personal film about his homeland

‘We were genocidal monkeys for much longer than we’ve been using knives and forks’: Sebastián Lelio on storytelling and self-destruction

Ahead of the release of The Wonder, its director talks about faith and female-led movies – while his stars past and present, including Rachel Weisz, Julianne Moore and Florence Pugh, explain his particular set of skills

After Blue (Dirty Paradise) review – Kate Bush sci-fi fantasy is on another planet

Bertrand Mandico’s trippy, erotic, preposterous odyssey is packed full of deranged details that could propel it to cult classic status

Girls Girls Girls review – Finnish friends find love, sex and figure skating

Three young women in Helsinki explore their sexuality in Alli Haapasalo’s live-wire coming-of-age tale

Wood and Water review – slender but powerful tale of a mother in search of her son

Left to fend for herself when she arrives in Hong Kong with protests in full swing, a German woman makes a series of chance encounters

Silent Land review – chilly drama of retribution on idyllic Italian island

There’s trouble in paradise as a wealthy couple’s luxury villa holiday hits the rocks in Aga Woszczynska’s impressive cautionary tale of selfish privilege

In Front of Your Face review – a gentle Korean pleasure

Lee Hye-yeong is mesmerising as a former actor confronting her past in a typically meditative study from Korean director Hong Sang-soo

Silent Land review – chilly comeuppance for picture-perfect tourists in Italian idyll

Aga Woszczynska’s incisive debut skewers guilt, desire and class for a vain pair of holidaymakers

In Front of Your Face review – quiet cine-literate magic from Korean auteur

Hong Sang-soo’s effortlessly lo-fi approach brings out the gentle humanity in his story of an actor returning to her family

One Second review – Zhang Yimou’s censored love letter to cinema reels you in

Grief and pain go to the bone in the Chinese director’s simple, beautifully shot tale about an escaped prisoner and an orphan

Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it

Godard was the inspired maverick of the French New Wave, the Lennon to Truffaut’s McCartney, and kept his radical imagination to the very end

Bloody Oranges review – bitter French comedy entertains but leaves a sour taste

A corrupt minister and a delusional pair of dance contestants are just two of the monsters of mediocrity who haunt Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s strange film