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

Streaming: Morbius and the best films about modern-day vampires

From Jared Leto’s biochemist in the Marvel film to the avenging feminist in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

The Big Hit review – feelgood prison comedy as convicts do Beckett

A curmudgeonly actor helps prisoners put on a production of Waiting for Godot in Emmanuel Courcol’s predictable drama

Wings of Desire review – Wim Wenders’ elegiac hymn to a broken cold-war Berlin

Shot when the city seemed forever divided by the wall, this intensely romantic story of an angel who longs for human love is unlike any other

Theo and the Metamorphosis review – provocative drama of nudity and hating

An initially intriguing slice of secluded life descends into hollow indulgence, the kind of film that gives arthouse cinema a bad name

Moon, 66 Questions review – elusive but rewarding study of family tension

Jacqueline Lentzou’s highly anticipated debut feature follows a daughter struggling to reconnect with her ailing father

Everything Went Fine review – François Ozon’s nimble study of assisted dying

The French director focuses on domestic dynamics rather than the moral issues in this naturalistic drama about a family crisis