Dear Comrades! review – stunning re-creation of a Soviet-era massacre

Andrei Konchalovsky’s account of the day Red Army soldiers and KGB snipers opened fire on strikers is a rage-filled triumph

Franka Potente: How we made Run Lola Run

‘I had to sprint across Berlin in a pair of Dr Marten boots – and I was smoking two packs a day back then’

Mary Twala gives an intimate yet epic performance as an 80-year-old widow fighting plans for a dam that will obliterate her village in Lesotho

French documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addicted to online romance

Broadway’s Eva Noblezada ably holds a tune and the screen in this bittersweet story of an immigrant trying to break into country and western

It’s number one time, and it’s a picture from the beginning of the year that nothing else has quite eclipsed for wit, thrills and sheer watchability

Bong Joon-ho’s satirical invasion-of-the-lifestyle-snatchers movie is cruel, ingenious and positively hums with malice

This fictional cycling and doping drama focuses on a support rider – an unsung hero who sacrifices his own dreams of winning the yellow jersey

Hong Sang-soo’s nuanced, low-key film could be a criticism of Korean sexual politics, or just a series of different meetings

Director Ekwa Msangi extends equal sympathy to all the characters in this drama about a family reuniting in New York after many years apart

Hot, sunny days of calamity govern the lives of five sisters, who raised themselves after their parents died, in this touching story

The South Korean director, who has died of Covid, was at the forefront of a new wave of uncompromising cinema

Based on the true story of engineer Giorgio Rosa, who built an independent state off the coast of Italy, this is a slight offering

A young German-Iranian worker befriends two siblings facing deportation in an urgent, uncompromising tale of modern Europe

The debauchery of a bunch of bewigged 18th-century libertines is presented with cerebral seriousness, but it’s an ordeal to watch