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I, Olga review – an alienating look back in anger

A disjointed character study in stark monochrome makes for a tough but rewarding viewer experience

Divines; Ghostbusters; The BFG; Star Trek: Beyond and more – review

Houda Benyamina adds a thrilling feminist twist to the ghetto life genre with the direct-to-Netflix Divines

United States of Love review – liberation is desperation in a sick new world

Four women living in Poland as the Soviet empire falls are oppressed by joyless sex and yearning in Tomasz Wasilewski’s unnervingly sad and icy film

We Are the Flesh review – welcome to the eroto-pocalypse

It’s all red filter, hardcore action and impending doom in this orgiastic dystopian nightmare set in Mexico

The Innocents review – striking and sober

This powerful tale of sexual abuse of nuns in wartime Poland recalls both Ida and Of Gods and Men

Divines director Houda Benyamina: ‘It’s better to make a film than a bomb’

Inspired by the fury of France’s 2005 riots, the French-Moroccan film-maker channelled her anger into art. The result was a Camera D’Or-winning below-the-banlieues thriller

Girls Lost review – magical realism with gender issues

Three bullied girls are turned into boys in this sensual Swedish drama-cum-fairytale

The Last Family review – mesmerising portrait of a battling brood

Jan P Matuszynski recreates the real-life story of a fractious family living on a bleak Warsaw housing estate with incisive aplomb

Matt Dillon to play serial killer in new Lars von Trier film

Actor takes lead in Danish director’s latest, The House that Jack Built, in which he plays a murderer who believes he is creating art with his killings

After Love review – Bejo and Kahn prove that breaking up is hard to do

Bérénice Bejo and Cédric Kahn star in a painfully intimate, horribly fascinating drama about the emotional and financial complexities of a separation

Sonita review – profile of an irrepressible wordsmith

An Afghan teen uses rap to attack the practice of selling daughters into marriage in this powerful documentary

Sembène! review – legacy trumps scrutiny in Senegalese director doc

This respectful documentary stays faithful to Ousmane Sembène’s iconoclastic legend, leaving questions and contradictions by the wayside

Tharlo review – a Tibetan fable

There’s rich allegory and inventive use of sound in this tale of a goatherd’s adventures in the big city

Under the Shadow review – ghostly Iranian gem

Otherworldly forces terrorise a mother and daughter in this provocative horror set in 1980s Tehran

Under the Shadow review – supremely scary horror from Iran

Babak Anvari’s disturbing ghost story, set in Tehran during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, is a brilliant parable of supernatural invasion

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