Close Your Eyes review – melancholy magic as Víctor Erice addresses his own enigmatic legacy

The Spanish director of 1973’s The Spirit of the Beehive returns with only his fourth feature, a beguiling if overlong tale of a missing movie actor

Opponent review – impressive drama about an Iranian refugee in limbo in Sweden

A wrestler and his family flee Iran for Sweden when rumours about his sexuality grow in Milad Alami’s intimate portrait of a man whose life is on hold

The Teachers’ Lounge review – a masterclass in playground politics

A teacher’s intervention in a spate of thefts upsets the balance of her school in Ilker Çatak’s taut, Oscar-nominated drama

Evil Does Not Exist review – slow-burning eco-parable

A proposed glamping site threatens a widower’s tranquil existence in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s strangely compelling hymn to nature

Io Capitano review – Matteo Garrone’s wrenching migrant drama is unexpectedly beautiful

Seydou Sarr is wonderful as a 16-year-old Senegalese migrant who maintains his empathy and selflessness through a hellish journey to Europe

‘As with all such moments, there are innocent victims’: Marco Bellocchio on his new film about the notorious kidnapping of a Jewish child

The octogenarian director, whose latest film dramatises the 19th-century abduction of Edgardo Mortara by the Vatican, has been plumbing the depths of the Italian psyche on screen for the past 60 years – and worries for the future of cinema

Yannick review – Quentin Dupieux goes for laughs in absurdist theatre hijack comedy

Dupieux’s melancholic comedy sees a disillusioned audience member pull a gun before demanding a word processor to write the actors a better play

‘I have not been living in the Himalayas!’ The return of Spirit of the Beehive director Víctor Erice

It is seen as one of the greatest films ever, with the most hypnotic child performance in history. So what has Víctor Erice been doing in the half century since Beehive? As his new film Close Your Eyes hits screens, the Spanish legend reveals all

The Human Surge 3 review – hopeful odyssey of globe-trotting twentysomethings

Eduardo Williams’ opaque sequel follows a group of twentysomethings in Sri Lanka, Peru and Taiwan with a 360-degree VR camera

Drift review – quietly mesmerising Greek island refugee tale

As a young Liberian woman in survival mode, Cynthia Erivo carries Anthony Chen’s unassuming drama

Disco Boy review – Franz Rogowski adds another dimension to intense French Foreign Legion drama

The German actor’s expressive performance anchors Giacomo Abbruzzese’s bold, continent-crossing feature debut

The Origin of Evil review – classy comedy-thriller with shades of Succession and Knives Out

Call My Agent’s Laure Calamy stars as a scheming factory worker with designs on a mega-rich fortune in this classy feast of backstabbing, double cross and venal greed

Cidade Rabat review – elegant, subtle study of a daughter’s grief

Portuguese director Susana Nobre explores the sadness of bereavement with deadpan obliqueness in this story about a woman’s reaction to her mother’s death

The Persian Version review – feelgood Iranian-American comedy with edge

A perceptive and candid look at mother-daughter discord drives the boisterous energy of Maryam Keshavarz’s comic crowdpleaser

‘Irreplaceable’: will Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s animation auteur, ever retire?

The Boy and the Heron’s Oscar win has prompted debate over whether the 83-year-old could put down his pencil