Knife + Heart review – bizarre shaggy-dog story of cheesy 70s porn

Set in the world of gay erotica, this strange, violent fantasy starring Vanessa Paradis isn’t funny – or serious – enough

Dogman review – Matteo Garrone’s terrific portrait of a criminal dogsbody

The Italian director nitpicks gangster insecurities with hilarious flair in this tale of a dog-groomer-cum-smalltime coke dealer

Jeune Femme review – down and out of sorts in Paris

Laetitia Dosch gives a powerful performance in this affecting drama about a young woman going through an extreme emotional crisis

Asako I & II review – Japanese romcom flips the gaze to tell the same old story

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s earnest romance switches things up by having a woman obsessed with a man’s beauty and then falling for his double

Shoplifters review – family of thieves steal moral high ground – and hearts

As a ne’er-do-well group keep a child they have found, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s poignant drama asks, who is winning?

Sir review – sexual tension brews in Mumbai

Social taboos and the status of women form the focus of a delicately observed drama about the relationship between a wealthy man and his maid

Happy as Lazzaro review – beguiling fable of golden, rural Italy trampled by modernity

Cannes award-winner Alice Rohrwacher’s follow-up to The Wonders is a sun-scorched, time-bending tale of a tobacco magnate and a village of sharecroppers

Climax review – Gaspar Noé’s satanic dance-troupe freak-out of sex and despair

The new film from the Irrevérsible director is a woozy, day-glo horror story of a dance troupe who drink alcohol spiked with LSD

Woman at War review – pylon-slayer faces adoption challenge in quirky Icelandic eco-drama

Benedikt Erlingsson’s follow-up to Of Horses and Men is a well-performed and stylish oddity, even if it relies too heavily on self-conscious comic effects

Ash Is Purest White review – Chinese gangster’s girlfriend saga burns bright

Jia Zhang-ke’s latest is an often glorious drama about how one woman’s journey from self-sacrificial moll to avenging criminal echoes her country’s embrace of capitalism

The Poetess review – Saudi poet’s reality TV breakthrough … and backlash

This entertaining documentary about Hissa Hilal, the first female finalist on the wildly popular Million’s Poet, reflects on her dazzling smackdown and the death threats that followed

Cold War review – wounded love and state-sponsored fear in 1940s Poland

Ida director Paweł Pawlikowski’s exquisitely chilling Soviet-era drama maps the dark heart of Poland itself

Donbass review – freakish fake-news kaleidoscope of Ukrainian civil war

Filled with the violence and Orwellian unreality ruling eastern Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa’s feverish procession of scenes is handled with steely control

Leto review – wistful throwback to Soviet rock rebellion

Kirill Serebrennikov, currently under house arrest in Russia, mines his own past for this love triangle set in the 1980s Leningrad demi-monde of western-rock connoisseurs

The Wild Boys review – uninhibited, deeply bizarre sex-swap drama

Bertrand Mandico’s feature about a group of entitled boys punished after a rape doesn’t answer all of the questions it asks