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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

Anatomy of a Fall wins best original screenplay Oscar

French Palme d’Or winner takes prize for its writer-director Justine Triet and co-writer Arthur Hariri

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World review – bracingly anarchic Romanian black comedy

Radu Jude’s portrait of an underpaid, overworked film production assistant with an obscenity-spewing alter ego lays into workplace ethics with brio

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell review – jewel of slow cinema is a wondrous meditation on faith and death

Much is open-ended about this realist yet dreamlike exploration of midlife crisis and regret set in Vietnam

Driving Mum review – droll Icelandic road movie

With the body of his mother in the backseat, a man fulfils her last wish on a life-changing drive across the country in Hilmar Oddsson’s oddball odyssey

Red Island review – cocktails, colonialism and comics in 70s Madagascar

The last days of French rule on the island play out though the eyes of a young boy in 100 Beats Per Minute director Robin Campillo’s autobiographically-inspired drama

Four Daughters review – emotionally wrenching look at why two Tunisian girls turned to fundamentalism

​Director Kaouther Ben Hania weaves a real family’s reminiscences with dramatic reconstructions in this compelling, Oscar-nominated documentary

Sex, lies and sundowners: Robin Campillo on turning his army brat childhood into a film

The cult director grew up on the luscious island of Madagascar just as it was casting off French rule. It was a deliriously happy time for him – but now he realises what was really going on

Driving Mum review – happy-sad Icelandic road movie hits the spot

This quirky story of a lonely farmer and his deceased mother celebrates the Nordic country’s breathtaking landscape

Berlin film festival 2024 roundup – tasty treats and the odd potboiler

A careworn Cillian Murphy excelled, Atlantics director Mati Diop returned, astronaut Adam Sandler had us drifting off, and kitchen dramas continued to sizzle

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