Lucky review – spirited Ghanaian romcom captures the social media age

An idling student enlists the help of a wideboy friend in pursuit of a hot date in a comedy that veers between likable and laddish

Atlantis review – strangely upbeat exploration of war-ravaged Ukraine

Valentyn Vasyanovych’s award-winning drama casts deeply likable non-professionals – most with direct experience of the conflict with Russia

Forget me not: what if a virus stole our memories?

Christos Nikou’s new comedy Apples is about a city afflicted with mass amnesia. The director explains why technology is already leading us there

Identifying Features review – a haunting portrayal of Mexico’s missing people

In this accomplished debut, a single mother refuses to give up hope while searching for her lost son

The Disciple review – Indian classical musician sings a lonely tune

Years of adherence to stringent rules leave a performer at odds with society in this melancholy film from India’s first Venice competitor for two decades

Identifying Features review – horror and heartbreak in Mexico’s borderlands

First-time director Fernanda Valadez conjures up a vision of real evil in her story of the terrors faced by migrants into the US

Labyrinth of Cinema review – cult Japanese director’s epic blitz of pop-culture hyperactivity

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s last work starts as a sentimental elegy to cinema-going’s golden age but takes us through the heart of Japanese darkness

Red Moon Tide review – sea spirits haunt the Spanish coast

A fishing community becomes frozen in time by the disappearance of a local hero, in this unsettling and austerely poetic tale

Spring Blossom review – a fleeting affair with heart

Suzanne Lindon’s debut skirts the line between schoolgirl crush and exploitation as it charts her romance with an older man, while neatly avoiding cliché

Sofia review – Moroccan society through the eyes of an unwed mother

Meryem Benm’Barek’s smart debut lays bare the scandalous consequences for a Casablanca woman who finds herself single and pregnant

Night in Paradise review – operatic Korean display of gunfire and death

This blood-splattered Korean gangster flick with a romantic subplot follows Tae-Gu as he hides out from his enemies

‘Film-making? Bring it on!’: ex-stockbroker Farah Nabulsi on her Oscar nomination

The British Palestinian is up for an Oscar with her debut, filmed at a notorious Israeli flashpoint called Checkpoint 300. The London-based director talks about her shocking visits to the Middle East

A Common Crime review – chilling ghost story with a social conscience

A career woman is haunted by a teenager she could have saved from death in this masterful political thriller from Argentina

Undine review – romance with just enough magic and mystery

A woman on the rebound gets into deep water in Transit director Christian Petzold’s playful reworking of an age-old myth

Undine review – a shaggy catfish of a story about a woman with a water obsession

The director of Transit returns with a somewhat pointless film about an art historian who has a passionate affair with a diver