Félicité review – gritty story of Kinshasa bar singer
Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu plays a mother scratching a living in the Congolese capital in Alain Gomis’s dramatic, compassionate study
Perfect Blue review – cult anime pushes teenage girl over the edge
Satoshi Kon’s 1997 exploitation movie about an ex-pop star and her stalker still packs a punch, but certain scenes are extra uncomfortable in the Weinstein era
I Am Not a Witch review – magical surrealism
Rungano Nyoni’s debut feature, the story of a girl in Zambia accused of witchcraft, is comic, tragic – and captivatingly beautiful
Lecturers recommend: non-western cinema that every student should see
University tutors select the foreign films to watch for a new perspective on the world
Boy review – big-hearted Maori coming-of-age comedy
Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi’s early paean to the strength and resilience of kids is tender and funny
Lost in La Mancha’s Jean Rochefort, veteran French actor, dies at 87
Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation
The Ornithologist review – from the sacred to the profane
Two Chinese girls rescue a drowning bird-watcher in this playful, increasingly surreal film
DVD reviews: Wonder Woman; Land of Mine; Chicken; and more
Patty Jenkins’s superheroine doesn’t quite strike a blow for women, while postwar German POWs face a new nightmare in a taut Danish drama
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl review – a hallucinogenic trip down a rabbit hole
This weird and sometimes wonderful Japanese anime is about a student on a kaleidoscopic all-night quest to find a treasured children’s book
The Ornithologist review – beautiful, erotic and baffling meditation on faith
This dreamy, seductive and playful retelling of the life of St Anthony of Padua, set in a jungle in northern Portugal, recalls the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Road to Mandalay review – potent migrant drama
This story of a young Burmese couple fleeing to Thailand is full of touching details
Zoology review – defiantly weird
This eccentric story of a Russian zookeeper who grows a tail is let down by a humdrum ending
Zoology review – woman grows a tail in sparky Russian satire
A zoo-worker’s unexpected new addition triggers an affair in this fable about conformity, reactionary sexual politics and religious fervour
The Road to Mandalay review – intensely moving drama about Burmese migrants
Midi Z offers no happy endings in this compassionate, ripped-from-the-headlines story about a couple determined to make a better life in Thailand
In Between review – the struggle of free spirits trying to fly
Three female flatmates in Tel Aviv fight the constraints of their Muslim faith and families in an inspiring directorial debut