Only the River Flows review – accomplished Chinese noir is intriguing and ingenious thriller

An ambitious police detective attempts to solve a series of murders from a disused cinema in director Wei Shujun’s crime drama

Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny

Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism

About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist

A village teacher is accused of inappropriate behaviour in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s handsome, beautifully performed, three-and-a-half-hour fable

Coma review – vital signs are weak in Bertrand Bonello’s mopey lockdown drama

There are stabs of the same fear that made The Beast fascinating, but this tale of a bored teenager in a scary, affectless future is too unfocused

Crossing review – terrific Istanbul-set culture-clash drama

A stern Georgian ex-teacher on a mission to make amends with her trans niece learns a thing or two in Levan Akin’s rich, rewarding ensemble film

Shayda review – tense Australian-Iranian domestic abuse drama

A woman is determined to create joy for her daughter while struggling to escape her violent husband in Noora Niasari’s assured debut

‘My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary

The Hungarian film director is known for his existentially daunting black and white films. He explains why he left his home country to run his own film school, and why he loves Chekhov, Hitchcock – and Gus Van Sant

A Prince review – queer erotic drama of sexual enlightenment through gardening

Pierre Creton’s literary film is about the carnal blossoming of a gardener’s apprentice under the tutelage of a series of older men

The Imaginary review – beguiling fantasy from Japan’s Studio Ponoc

A young girl and her made-up friend are separated in an exquisitely drawn anime reminiscent of Studio Ghibli

‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

The Swedish actor is playing a bamboozled police officer in What Remains, a film written by his wife and starring one of his sons. He looks back on mixing Marvel with arthouse, taking risks with Lars von Trier and Sweden joining Nato

Green Border review – an angry and urgent masterpiece about Europe’s migrant crisis

Agnieszka Holland’s vital drama about refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland could hardly be more topical

Anouk Aimée was an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

The star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, had a unique screen presence that was at once alluring and forbidding

Anouk Aimée, star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, dies aged 92

The French actor was one of the key faces of the New Wave, starring in classics by directors including Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy and Claude Lelouch

Àma Gloria review – French coming-of-age drama is a modest gem

Marie Amachoukeli’s low-key tale of a child and her nanny boasts a star turn from six-year-old Louise Mauroy-Panzani

Hounds review – grim and quirky Moroccan crime drama

An ex-con and his son spin around Casablanca trying to dispose of a huge corpse in Kamal Lazraq’s good-looking, if uneven, Cannes winner