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The Fever review – dreamy film about a mysterious illness in Brazil

Maya Da-Rin’s subtle, poetic debut engages with the hidden lives of the Desana people of Brazil

All Hands on Deck review – fresh and funny French holiday romance

A romantic surprise has unexpected consequences in a gentle comedy channelling Éric Rohmer crossed with Carry on Camping

The Psychic review – Lucio Fulci’s ravishing giallo thriller with nasty taste for violence

Jennifer O’Neill stars as a fabulously dressed clairvoyant in Fulci’s revived 1977 thriller that looks amazing, even if the sexual politics are dodgy

Teddy review – wince-inducing French werewolf horror

Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma show promisingly grim tendencies in a supremely confident horror that lacks a bit of thematic bite

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World review – devastating exposé of showbiz abuse

Luchino Visconti emerges badly from this desperately sad documentary about the exploitation of his Death in Venice child star Björn Andrésen

The Offering review – a sizzling Hitchcockian love triangle

A psychologist is forced to confront the fallout of a past romance in a neo-noir from Ventura Durall lacking visual punch

Riders of Justice review – Mads Mikkelsen revenge thriller turns screwball

Anders Thomas Jensen’s film is far-fetched, tonally wayward and shouldn’t work at all, but somehow it all comes together

Bye Bye Morons review – frantically misjudged French farce doesn’t travel well

Albert Dupontel stars in his own hectic romp, which tries and fails to be funny about disability and dying

Luz: The Flower of Evil review – arty Colombian horror shot through a trippy filter

Colombian horror about a micro-cult is rather too fascinated by the barbarity of its leader, rather than the daughters he has hidden from the world

Reset review – beautiful footage of extreme-sports thrill-seekers

French director Thierry Donard, ‘the Fellini of adventure film-making’, shoots four sets of daredevils throwing themselves headlong into intense experience

Night of the Kings review – Ivory Coast prison drama escapes into magical realism

This imaginative and unique Ivorian tale blends modern-day thriller dynamics with older storytelling traditions

Here We Are review – superb performances and insight in Israeli autism drama

Drawn on the writer’s personal experience, Nir Bergman’s father-son runaway adventure delivers poignancy through myriad insights

I Never Cry review – endearingly spiky girl’s odyssey from Poland to Ireland, and back again

In a striking debut, Zofia Stafiej sets about repatriating her late father’s body from Dublin, and finding herself along the way

The Restless review – unflinching study of an anguished artist

Damien Bonnard is a bipolar painter whose life is unravelling in this earnest drama that avoids cliches and pulls no punches

Memoria review – Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton make a dream team

The Thai master’s English-language debut – about an expat attuned to strange frequencies in Colombia – more than matches his past mystic odysseys

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