About Endlessness review – a divine comedy with moments of devilish wit
Lost souls and lonely hearts populate Roy Andersson’s deliciously odd follow-up to A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
The Painted Bird review – savage, searing three-hour tour of hell
Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel and Udo Kier star in this phantasmagorical horror about eastern Europe that saw half the Venice audience walk out. I couldn’t look away
The Perfect Candidate review – powerful insight into Saudi absurdity
Haifaa al-Mansour, the first Saudi woman to direct a feature, goes back to basics with an effective story of a doctor trying to enter politics
Aniara review – a eerily mesmerising outer-space odyssey
Disaster leaves a public spacecraft adrift and its social order on the brink of breakdown in this cleverly pertinent sci-fi chiller
Streaming: is the Brazilian film Araby the movie of the decade?
A Brazilian road movie that’s been wowing critics for two years finally makes its UK debut
A Faithful Man review – drearily frothy French romcom
The female objects of desire in this disappointing ménage à trois comedy by Louis Garrel are more fantasies than characters
Transit review – taut German thriller
A 1940s tale of refugees, riot police and stolen identities
Djon África review – globetrotting quest yields warmth and wonder
Miguel Moreira’s Portuguese idler travels to Cape Verde to find his dad in in this meandering, lusciously shot drama
Transit review – brilliant existential thriller works like a dream
In Christian Petzold’s superbly deft drama, a fugitive steals someone else’s identity with deeply disturbing results
Gaza review – heartfelt chronicle of life under political siege
This sombre, angry documentary captures a sense of ordinary life in the strip bordered by Egypt, Israel and the sea
Opus Zero review – Willem Dafoe’s no Columbo in auteurist mystery
Dafoe adds watchability in this story of a composer obsessed with a long-ago disappearance, but this arthouse drama feels like a misstep
Oldboy review – a beautifully blood-spattered modern classic
Limbs, teeth and live octopuses all come in for unblinkingly brutal treatment in Park Chan-wook’s stunning revenge epic
Une Femme Douce review – Bresson’s transcendent reflection on marriage
The French director’s 1969 spectacle about the wife of a pawnbroker who kills herself is still difficult, devastating and captivating 50 years on
The Candidate review – corruption and paranoia at the Spanish seaside
Antonio de la Torre is magnetic as a politician at the centre of a web of betrayal in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s slow-burn thriller
Holiday review – an unlovely sojourn around the twisted male psyche
Sex, violence and alpha-male malice collide with sickening consequences in Isabella Eklöf’s unflinching directorial debut