Bad Tales review – suburban dysfunction in visceral Italian drama
Superbly shot, the D’Innocenzo brothers’ film focuses on families, neighbourly envy and the feral behaviour of men which culminates in tragedy
‘My father and I disagree on the purpose of cinema’: Anders and Nicolas Winding Refn on film-making
The two Danish directors have known the joy of success and the pain of failure in their respective careers. Just don’t expect them to see eye to eye on anything else
Oscars release first shortlists for 2021 Academy Awards
Boys State, MLK/FBI and Crip Camp among contenders as categories announced include best documentary and best international film
Breeder review – muddled torture porn horror
Gonzo violence brings down what could have been an enjoyably bizarre melodrama about a creepy eternal-youth biotech facility
Dead Pigs review – winding tale of life in cash-crazed Shanghai
Cathy Yan’s sprawling drama uses a real-life discovery of 16,000 porcine corpses to pick away at Chinese commercialism
If It Were Love review – a dance doc powered by the exuberance of youth
Patric Chiha’s film follows a troupe rehearsing a major production and draws its charm from the carefree energy of its performers
The Recce review – madness of war in a wondrous land
An elite soldier is sent on a perilous solo mission in this underwhelming drama set during the Namibian war of independence
Birds (Or How to Be One) review – flighty avian-themed drama-doc
Babis Makridis takes to the sky with an experimental and sometimes difficult to watch manifesto inspired by Aristophanes’s play The Birds
Winter Flies review – teen tearaways ride their luck with a smile
Olmo Omerzu steers this Czech road movie gently, teasing wonderfully natural performances from his young leads
God of the Piano review – icy family drama is a virtuoso debut
A family worships musical greatness above all else in Itay Tal’s film about a mother raising a pianist son under the scrutiny of her family
‘I’ll never forget the silence on set’: revisiting the Srebrenica massacre
The devastating drama Quo Vadis, Aida? explores the run-up to the 1995 genocide. Actor Jasna Đuričić hopes the film will accelerate the healing process
Persian Lessons review – hard-to-believe Holocaust survival drama
Claiming to be inspired by true events, the story of a young Jewish man who stays alive by pretending to be half-Iranian strains credibility
Are We Lost Forever review – breakup drama runs out of steam, if not sex
This Swedish relationship drama starts promisingly, but the script is too soapy and laboured
Heroes Don’t Die review – reincarnation mystery is on life support
A young man searches for the truth after being told he is the reincarnation of a Bosnian soldier killed on the day he was born
About Some Meaningless Events review – attempted murder and the movies
In this intriguing film, banned in the 70s, Mostafa Derkaoui grapples with the purpose of cinema on the streets of Casablanca