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
Here review – low-key love in Brussels
A moss specialist and a Romanian labourer connect over homemade soup in Bas Devos’s lovely, intimate film
The Beast review – Léa Seydoux mesmerises in wildly ambitious sci-fi romance
Bertrand Bonello’s head-spinning Henry James adaptation set in 1910 Paris, 2014 LA and an AI-controlled 2044 casts a dreamlike spell