Black Dog review – ex-con and stray dog bond in searching Chinese social drama

Guan Hu’s low-key Cannes winner is a heartfelt tale of redemption set against the dramatic backdrop of the Gobi desert

The Count of Monte Cristo review – a good-looking gallop through Dumas’ tale of revenge

Pierre Niney plays the man behind the multiple masks in this fast-moving adaptation that needs a touch more finesse

French film star Alain Delon dies aged 88

Celebrated actor and star of Plein Soleil and Le Samouraï has died, his children have said

Only the River Flows review – stylishly enigmatic Chinese crime drama

An overburdened detective investigates a series of murders in 1990s rural China in Wei Shujun’s slow-burning noir

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