A Man Called Ove review – black comedy with a big heart

A moving and funny tale of a suicidal Swedish mechanic being helped by his pregnant Persian neighbour

Hidden Figures; Heal the Living; A Cure for Wellness and more – review

Theodore Melfi’s feelgood drama about Nasa’s black female mathematicians in the 60s adds up to something special, while Heal the Living is a sublime opera of feeling

A Man Called Ove review – tiresome tale of an old grump

A Scrooge-like character spends his life railing against his neighbours – and trying to kill himself – in a drama that’s not funny, or sad or interesting

In This Corner of the World review – 1940s Japan through the eyes of a teen

A girl is married off to a boy she barely knows in this rich but unfocused anime

By the Time It Gets Dark review – engrossingly mystical Bangkok protests drama

This fascinating, enigmatic feature confidently leaps down the conceptual rabbit hole to mix a historic massacre with transcendent forests and telekinesis

Slack Bay review – hilarious high jinks on the beach

Bruno Dumont’s wacky, macabre crime comedy, starring Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini, is very strange and very funny

After the Storm review – bittersweet family comedy

Three generations clash in Hirokazu Koreeda’s gentle, witty film

The Shepherd review – modern-day western brings pain to Spain’s plains

This thriller about a reclusive loner who comes under pressure to sell his land showcases the film-making craftmanship of Jonathan Cenzual Burley

The Other Side of Hope review – wry refugee comedy

A Syrian asylum seeker finds friendship with a hapless Finnish restaurateur in part two of Aki Kaurismäki’s migrant trilogy

I Am Not Madame Bovary review – slow boat from China

An overlong Kafkaesque comedy drama about a woman’s bid to save her reputation runs out of steam

I Am Not Madame Bovary review – smart satire cuts through China’s bureaucracy

Fan Bingbing is on fine form as an obstinate divorcee-to-be in a singular film that is ultimately worth the effort it requires

I Am Not a Witch director Rungano Nyoni: ‘The chief Whatsapped his people to find our star’

The Welsh-Zambian director’s debut feature is premiering at Cannes: an everyday story of choosing between life in a travelling witch camp or being transformed into a goat

The Other Side of Hope review – coolly comic take on the refugee crisis

Aki Kaurismäki’s tale of a Syrian refugee who stows away to Finland mines the deadpan humour he’s famous for while refusing to flinch from heartbreak and hardship

Radiance review – a poignant vision of the power of sight

In Naomi Kawase’s gentle, thoughtful story, a photographer with deteriorating eyesight meets a woman who writes audio descriptions for the visually impaired

24 Frames review – a mesmeric glimpse into Abbas Kiarostami’s mysterious mind

The Iranian director has produced a posthumous marvel with this bizarre, experimental ghost-film that even puts his hated cinema seats to decent use