Willem Dafoe and Hillary Clinton to attend Berlin film festival

Dafoe stars in Abel Ferrara’s Siberia in a competition that beats out Cannes and Venice for female directors, while a documentary about Clinton shows outside the main lineup

How I Became a Gangster. True Story review – dire, derivative mob caper

Based on real events, this story of Polish gangsters fighting each other and abusing women is self-important and cliche-ridden

No Fathers in Kashmir review – dithering heights

A British girl and her Kashmiri friend trek into the mountains in this clunky tale of two missing fathers

Weathering With You review – thrillingly beautiful anime romance

A runaway teenager falls for a mysterious ‘sun girl’ who has the power to stop the rain in Japan’s highest-grossing film of 2019

Midnight Traveler review – refugees’ gripping escape from Afghanistan

Filmed entirely on smartphones, Hassan Fazili’s powerful documentary charts his family’s perilous, gruelling trek to sanctuary in Europe

Lullaby review – a no-thrills thriller

A middle-class French family is terrorised by the nanny from hell

El Topo review – Jodorowsky’s weird world of occult psychedelia

The veteran director stars as a black-clad horseman on a bizarre desert quest with worrying Mansonesque overtones in his rereleased head trip of 1970

Lullaby review – bad-nanny thriller up past its bedtime

A young couple make a terrible childcare choice in this strained, unsatisfying drama based on Leïla Slimani’s bestselling novel

The most exciting movies of 2020 – foreign language

Paul Verhoeven plays the provocateur, bloody excess hits Brazil’s wild west and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite finally invades these shores

La Dolce Vita review – a sexy, surreal masterpiece of modernity

Federico Fellini’s rereleased film brilliantly captures postwar Rome and its denizens as they tumble headlong into hedonistic excess – and secret melancholy

We Are from Jazz review – zany Russian musical comedy

In this entertaining fantasy from the Soviet era, a brilliant pianist is expelled from the music academy because of his passion for decadent American jazz

War epics, airmen and young Sopranos: essential films for 2020

Daniel Craig bows out as Bond, the original Ghostbusters make a slimy return and Dickens gets a razor-sharp reboot – our preview of movie highlights this year