A Season in France review – the loves and losses of two Africans in Europe
Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun portrays the pride and pain of the refugee experience with compassion and a sharp edge
Lovers, haters and dead dictators: the must-see movies of autumn 2017
Kicking off our guide to the season’s cultural highlights, we head to the cinema for the return of Blade Runner, a tale of taboo sex and Armando Iannucci’s stunning Stalin satire. Here are the 20 films we’re most looking forward to this autumn
Insyriated review – horror of home life in Syria
A mother tries to protect her family from gunfire in this tense thriller that’s difficult to watch
Tramontane review – on the right path
A blind musician tries to trace his ancestry in this Lebanese road trip
Insyriated review – claustrophobic drama from the heart of the Syrian war
This brutally tough but absorbing film is set in a Damascus apartment in which a family with a tragic secret have barricaded themselves
Back to Burgundy review – sweet but unsatisfying family drama
Structural flaws let down Cédric Klapisch’s tale of siblings who return to run the family vineyard when their father dies
Zama review – Lucrecia Martel emerges from the wilderness with a strange, sensual wonder
After a nine-year absence, the Argentinian director returns with an audacious and antic tale set in a 18th-century colony on the Asuncion coast
Hotel Salvation review – redemption on the banks of the Ganges
Father and son face up to mortality in this beautiful debut feature from a young Indian writer-director
Children of the Mountain; Adama; Layla Fourie and more – review
There’s a wealth of African film on demand through Okiki and Mubi, from stirring drama to moral thrillers
Mimosas review – Moroccan mountain trail movie maintains enigmatic air
Shot with non-professionals on location in the Atlas mountains, this dreamy, beautifully shot parable has been compared to Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Hotel Salvation review – life, death and marijuana-laced lassis in trippy Indian arthouse flick
Shubhashish Bhutiani’s comedy-drama about an Indian businessman embarking on a final journey with his father is smart, spellbinding and achingly relatable
La Soledad review – a flower of a film amid the ruins of Caracas
This parable about the crumbling economy and desperate people of Venezuala, has the hypnagogic rhythms of an Apichatpong Weerasethakul film
The Untamed review – a film about love, pleasure and a tentacular sex monster
This sly and subversive allegorical body horror from the Mexican director of Heli is about the universal drives and addictions that power us all through life
Le Doulos review – Jean-Pierre Melville’s brilliant but moody tough-guy drama
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a safe-cracker in this distinctive, ruminative take on tough-guy archetypes and genre conventions, from 1962
Shin Godzilla review – Japan’s great monster rises from the deep once more
The giant of the deep rises to terrify humanity, destroy buildings and give the bureaucrats something to deliberate