Lockdown watch: Mark Cousins on why he’s only seeing films from 1940
In the first of a series in which film-makers reveal their self-isolation viewing habits, the documentarian on batty curios and rare gems from 80 years ago
Haifaa Al-Mansour: ‘Female leaders are crushed. Look at Hillary Clinton’
The Saudi Arabian director directed her first film, Wadjda, hiding in the back of a van on the streets of Riyadh. Now her latest, The Perfect Candidate, is opening doors in Hollywood
The Perfect Candidate review – accidental heroine takes on the cynics
When a doctor runs for office in Saudi Arabia, her campaign gathers unexpected momentum in this assured drama by Wadjda director Haifaa Al Mansour
Domains review – eerie echoes of a world in isolation
This stark, experimental drama about a woman in a troubled marriage who reconnects with an old friend is the first movie of the coronavirus era
Fire Will Come review – emotional Spanish drama
An arsonist falls under suspicion in a Galician village in Oliver Laxe’s Cannes prize-winner
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants review – alarming antics in the sex dungeon
The hardcore story of a grieving surgeon who embarks on an odyssey of forbidden pleasures is intriguing but hard to watch
The Truth review – mothers, memory and an imperious Catherine Deneuve
A legendary movie star’s dubious memoirs outrage her daughter – played by Juliette Binoche – in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s stylish, seductive family drama
Fire Will Come review – pyromaniac’s tale obscured by smoke
Oliver Laxe’s drama about a fire-starter in rural Spain is visually arresting but exasperating as a piece of storytelling
Bacurau review – wildly entertaining Brazilian weirdness
A rural community comes under attack in a thriller with anticolonial overtones
And Then We Danced review – freewheeling story of secret love
Levan Akin’s terrific romance about two male dancers in Tbilisi is electrifying in its physicality and fervent in its storytelling
Bacurau review – ultraviolent freakout in Brazil’s outback
This disquieting horror-style western about a town under siege from a mysterious threat is executed with ruthless clarity
Strangulation, asphyxiation, rubber: making the BDSM romcom Dogs Don’t Wear Pants
Finnish director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää ensured that his new film was torture for his actors – literally. But he insists his immersive methods are just like gardening
Vitalina Varela review – secrets and lies amid the ruins
Vitalina Varela stars as herself in Pedro Costa’s bleak but beautiful film about a woman discovering the hidden life of her late husband
Immortal Hero review – silly vanity project made in bad faith
The self-produced film by faith leader Ryuho Okawa is woefully misjudged and reveals the laughable reality behind Happy Science
Poland’s world-beating new film-makers: ‘We have a common enemy’
From Kieślowski to Munk, Polish film has a mighty past. Yet can today’s auteurs survive the interference of a government hostile to ‘whingeing, arty stuff’ that shows the world as ambiguous’?