Kler review – counting the sins of the Catholic priesthood

Controversial in its native Poland, this ambitious drama skilfully shows its clerical cast are as much victims as villains

MFKZ review – frenetic world-building overkill

Adapting his graphic novel, Guillaume Renard pieces together a dense reimagining of LA that’s impressive – until you stop to think about it

Tehran Taboo review – powerful Iranian animation

A stunningly rotoscoped collection of the Iranian capital’s secret stories

My 20th Century review – tales of an adventuress and an anarchist

The witty, whimsical debut of Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is about the strange entwined fates of separated twins at the turn of the century

Fan Bingbing’s mysterious disappearance: what it means for China’s elite

Three months ago, one of the country’s best known actors went missing. Now, seemingly chastened, she has reappeared with a bill for £112m in unpaid taxes and fines

Tehran Taboo review – sex, drugs and rock’n’roll in Iran

In this multi-stranded rotoscoped narrative, crackling with tension and bleak comedy, musicians and prostitutes find ways around the strict laws of their country

Jalouse review – female rage seen through a pre-#MeToo lens

The Foekinos brothers’ sometimes tone-deaf romcom pits women against women in the pursuit of men

‘There are no different truths’: the last years of Soviet cinema

A new season at the Barbican tells the story of the USSR’s final generation through the lens of its pioneering film-makers

Wajib review – raw nerves beneath the ancient hurts

Annemarie Jacir pits tradition against modernity in this bittersweet comedy about a father driving around Nazareth with his hipster architect son

Wajib review – a jokey jaunt through Nazareth

Annemarie Jacir’s comedy-drama interleaves simmering tension in the Israeli town with moments of terrific humour as a father and son deliver wedding invitations

Manto: the writer who felt the pain of India’s partition

Saadat Hasan Manto chronicled Bombay life in all its ugly beauty – until sectarian horrors were unleashed on the streets he loved. A new biopic by director Nandita Das retells his stories