Sujo review – Mexican coming-of-age drama in the shadow of a cartel killing
A story about a boy deciding whether to enter the criminal underworld or become a student that lacks enough passion and anger to really hit home
The Universal Theory review – chilly German sci-fi noir splices genres with style
Ambitious feature by Timm Kröger moves from lurid colour to stark black and white following an academic’s Alpine adventures in the metaverse
Remembering Every Night review – drifting drama follows three Tokyo women living their lives
Yui Kiyohara’s film of long shots and silences could be deeply boring or oddly fascinating depending on your point of view
All We Imagine As Light review – Cannes prize-winning Indian drama is a quiet, tender marvel
Payal Kapadia’s poetic, everyday tale of three women who work at the same hospital is all the more remarkable for being her fiction feature debut
Snow Leopard review – striking Tibetan drama about one big cat’s fate
A rare snow leopard becomes the centre of a tense family dispute in the late Pema Tseden’s final film
Memories of a Burning Body review – Costa Rican older women talk about sex and desire in deft docudrama
The vivid recollections of three women who grew up in the repressive 1950s and 60s are elegantly re-enacted in Antonella Sudasassi’s prize-winning drama
The Last Dance review – the Chinese funeral home comedy you’ve been waiting for
A wedding planner turned undertaker struggles to win over a Taoist priest in writer-director Anselm Chan’s drama with hidden depths
‘I felt this film was my duty’: director Mati Diop on Dahomey, about the return of looted African treasures
The French-Senegalese film-maker on winning the top prize at Berlin for her otherworldly new work, cultural identity and her beef with Beyoncé
The Goldman Case review – compelling real-life French courtroom drama
The 1970s appeal hearing of far-left activist and armed robber Pierre Goldman is mined for all its showboating excitement in Cédric Kahn’s film
Sugarcane review – impressive account of the Catholic church’s abuse of Indigenous children in Canada
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s documentary is all the more powerful for its measured telling
Girls Will Be Girls review – simmering emotions in Himalayan boarding school coming-of-age drama
A head prefect’s burgeoning romance is one more thing she needs to excel at in Shuchi Talati’s Sundance audience prize-winning tale of sexual awakening
My Favourite Cake review – lovely, quietly subversive late-life Iranian romance
A lonely widow seizes the day in this bittersweet comedy drama, which drew the ire of the Iranian authorities on its release earlier this year
‘The main issue was always the hijab’: the Iranian directors arrested for their gentle septuagenarian comedy
Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, makers of My Favourite Cake, received an ovation at the Berlin film festival while under house arrest in Tehran. They speak about the struggle of creating art under a dictatorship
Fawzia Mirza and Amrit Kaur on The Queen of My Dreams: ‘People want to hear more queer Muslim stories’
Mirza’s feature debut may have started with a wish to better understand her conservative Pakistani mother, but the joy it finds as it hops from 90s Canada to 60s Karachi speaks to big questions about south Asian identities
The Count of Monte Cristo review – highly enjoyable French costume spectacle
Three Musketeers screenwriters Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte move on to Dumas’s swashbuckling tale of revenge with verve