Between Two Dawns review – powerful workplace drama over safety failings

A workplace incident pitches a young man into a battle of conscience with his family and the law in Selman Nacar’s debut

The Deer King review – a beautiful muddle from Studio Ghibli regular

Animator turned director Masashi Ando creates a strikingly handsome work let down by sketchy storytelling

Hit the Road review – all of Iranian life on four wheels

Panah Panahi juggles joy, heartbreak and surreal humour in a road movie his imprisoned father would be proud of

Hit the Road review – irrepressible defiance in beautifully composed debut feature

Directed by Panah Panahi, the son of jailed Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, this tense family drama is drenched in a subtle but urgent political meaning

Robust review – Gérard Depardieu at his larger-than-life best

The French star plays an actor who forms a complex friendship with a young security guard in this refreshingly understated comedy drama

The Big City review – Satyajit Ray’s miraculous look at a new world of possibility

The struggles and triumphs of a 1950s Kolkata family whose highest earner is a woman is told with marvellous lucidity in an optimistic masterpiece

A Chiara review – an Italian girl’s war against mob rule

A teenager demands to know the truth about the media’s portrayal of her father in this authentic, slow-burning drama

Ode to the Spring review – manipulative Chinese Covid-onset drama

These sentimental, pandemic-based stories, all set in Wuhan, might struggle to find an audience

Futura review – fascinating snapshot of Italy’s young adults

In this charming documentary, Italian teenagers from across the country share their hopes and fears as they contemplate the future

Streaming: Benedetta and the best films about nuns

Paul Verhoeven’s lesbian nuns romance joins a heavenly sisterhood that ranges from Black Narcissus and Doubt to Viridiana

The Spirit of the Beehive director Víctor Erice to make his first feature in 30 years

Spanish auteur behind the 1973 arthouse hit will direct a new film, Cerrar los Ojos, due for release in 2023

Ode to the Spring review – Chinese exploration of pandemic ground zero in Wuhan

Telling five Covid-related stories, this platitudinous urban-interconnection drama offers lectures on virtue and self-sacrifice and feels like state propaganda

Some Interviews on Personal Matters review – offbeat Coppola-esque romcom from 1970s Tbilisi

A journalist discovers her husband’s infidelity in a poetic, pleasingly surreal drama by Georgian director Lana Gogoberidze

The Big Hit review – impressive French prison comedy-drama

Based on the true story of a drama teacher who worked in a high-security jail, this film crackles with charm and nervous energy

Moon, 66 Questions review – oblique view of a family reunion is a cinematic pleasure

Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou’s elliptical tale of an estranged father and daughter is a supremely confident debut