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Clara Sola review – miraculous drama of burgeoning sexuality and divine grace

Wendy Chinchilla Araya makes a tremendous debut as a neglected woman with learning difficulties who is believed to have spiritual powers – and who falls for a handsome local boy

Rise (En Corps) review – a ballerina’s dramatic comeback from devastating injury

Marion Barbeau, a Paris Opera ballerina making her acting debut, is terrific as an injured performer who finds strength in a contemporary dance company

The Box review – Mexican teen’s search for missing father attains tragic status

Hatzín Navarrete makes an impressive debut as a boy searching for the truth about his parent in a hostile world

Return to Dust review – paean to the simple life

A bullied woman finds contentment in her marriage to a peasant in a quietly affecting portrait of rural life in China

Hilma review – handsome biopic about mystic Swedish artist

Lasse Hallström explores the tumultuous life of Hilma af Klimt, now recognised as a pioneer of abstract art

Kunle Afolayan on Aníkúlápó : ‘I said this movie would be bigger than Game of Thrones’

The Nigerian director explains how his film has become a huge Netflix hit and why he doesn’t care it’s been overlooked for an Oscar

The Gravedigger’s Wife review – powerful Djiboutian fable about family bonds

Tough times come all at once for a man and his wife in Finnish-Somali director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s spare, affecting film

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

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