The Whistlers (La Gomera) review – thrilling Romanian corrupt-cop noir
A bent detective becomes entangled in the crimes he’s investigating in Corneliu Porumboiu’s nifty, twisty drama
Portrait of a Lady on Fire review – burning desires and flashes of Hitchcock
Girlhood director Céline Sciamma’s gripping 18th-century story of obsession demonstrates a new mastery of classical style
Birds of Passage review – powerful Colombian drug trade saga
An indigenous family are torn apart by the marijuana boom
The Wild Goose Lake review – Diao Yinan’s shady lady noir is no quacker
The Chinese director’s followup to his Berlin-winning 2014 drama proves absorbing, original – and psychologically limited
Joan of Arc review – child warrior on the march in an absurdist pageant
Lise Leplat Prudhomme has undoubted charisma as the doomed heroine, but Bruno Dumont’s dead-straight biopic is passionless and exasperating
Atlantique review – African oppression meets supernatural mystery
Mati Diop’s feature debut forces young Senegalese lovers to choose between love, duty and servitude, then adds a surreal twist
Les Misérables review – savvy cop procedural swerves into molotov mayhem
Ladj Ly’s debut feature is a police drama set in a tough Paris suburb that loses subtlety as it erupts into violence
Birds of Passage review – dark odyssey to the heart of the drugs trade
Ciro Guerra’s poetic – and shocking – drama about marijuana trafficking in Colombia digs deep into the culture of the indigenous people involved
Cannes 2019: the top 10 must-see films
Jim Jarmusch’s starry zombie horror opens, Quentin Tarantino returns and rising director Alice Furtado makes her debut
‘Feel free to nod off!’ Meet the DIY directors of wild screwball comedy Diamantino
It’s got giant frolicking dogs, a cloned soccer star, and it was made with the help of YouTube special effects tutorials. We meet the boundary-busting duo behind football fantasy Diamantino
Diamantino review – delightfully daft football fantasy
A disgraced world-class striker’s life descends into chaos as he adopts a child refugee, becomes a vote-leave poster boy – and gets cloned by the government
Cannes festival 2019: full list of films
All the films screening at the 72nd edition of France’s celebrated film festival
Ash Is Purest White review – epic outlaw romance in a changing China
A resilient gangster’s moll burns with misguided love in Jia Zhangke’s melancholy drama
Styx review – refugee dilemma tests moral compass
Should a lone yachtswoman act when authorities tell her to sail away? Wolfgang Fischer’s drama steers into Europe’s migrant crisis with conviction
The World Is Yours review – brash Franco-crime caper
Isabelle Adjani and Vincent Cassel star in a carnivalesque romp peopled by the chancers and artful dodgers of France’s immigrant underclass