The Ape Woman review – freakshow satire with bizarre alternative-ending payoff
Watching both versions of this 1964 drama of Elephant Man-style exploitation reveals an impressive degree of tenderness and complexity
My Little Sister review – fierce and fraught family drama
Nina Hoss and Lars Eidinger give finely acted performances as they play twins brought back together through illness – but who is saving who?
The Maid review – a giddy, gory satire that sticks it to the super-wealthy
Shadowy figures lurk in Lee Thongkham’s stylised horror, which wrongfoots the audience with jump scares aplenty
The Man Who Sold His Skin review – scathing Tunisian satire
The art world and society’s attitudes towards refugees are equally skewered in this powerful Oscar nominee
Balloon review – trouble on the Tibetan steppes
A sheep farmer discovers she is pregnant again, despite China’s one-child policy, in this wry, delicate drama
Balloon review – beauty and melancholy in Tibet’s sheep-herding life
Writer-director Pema Tseden tells this story of a clash between modernity and tradition as a woman is dismayed to find she is pregnant
Gagarine review – close encounters of the banlieue kind
This mesmerising debut about a teenager looking to fix up his Paris estate passes up the usual angry social-realism in favour of something more celestial
Mélanie Laurent on The Mad Women’s Ball: ‘It was like the doctors were playing with dolls’
The French actor has directed a historical drama about women experimented on at a psychiatric hospital in Paris. She talks about the shocking story – and its resonance for women today
La Caja review – mystery box of bones ignites brooding surrogate-father tale
The final instalment in Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’s trilogy about fathers and sons takes on social issues as well as emotional ones
Jean-Paul Belmondo obituary
Star of the French Nouvelle Vague who rose to fame in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 masterpiece Breathless
Happening review – sex and abortion on the new frontline in 60s France
Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s novel, this drama about a student agonising over an illegal termination plays out as a tense, gripping thriller
Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of Breathless, dies aged 88
The actor exploded on to the screen in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 New Wave classic, which made him one of France’s biggest box-office stars
The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino exposes his childhood trauma
Going back to Naples and the disaster that changed his life, The Great Beauty director evokes his adolescence with bawdy vigour
Parallel Mothers review – Almodóvar delivers Venice film festival a little bundle of joy
Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz open the festival with a boisterous, warm-bodied swapped-at-birth melodrama about two single women who meet in a maternity ward
Shorta review – Danish urban thriller gets the heart pumping
Two cops are stranded in hostile territory when an act of police brutality triggers a riot in this slick action film