Tanna review – volcanic South Pacific love story shot entirely in Vanuatu

With its magnetic cast and Venice award-winning cinematography, this film treads the familiar theme of star-crossed lovers with shimmering vitality

Taxi Tehran review – Jafar Panahi’s joy ride

Again thumbing his nose at the regime that has banned him, the courageous Iranian director makes his latest film in a car

Black Souls review – gripping Italian crime drama

Francesco Munzi’s tale of the struggles within a Calabrian mob family is sombre and spare

Pordenone silent film festival – female spies, custard pies and skirt-ripping fun for all

The Italian celebration of the silent screen produced a bumper crop of rediscovered gems from around the world – including a Laurel and Hardy classic – to wave off outgoing artistic director David Robinson

Chantal Akerman: extraordinary artist of the everyday who we will miss for ever

The pioneering feminist film director died suddenly this week, aged 65. Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts, who have been curating a complete retrospective of her work, remember an extraordinary talent and friend

Chantal Akerman, pioneering Belgian film director and theorist, dies aged 65

Chantal Akerman, a highly influential voice in experimental and feminist cinema, has died unexpectedly

The Ang Lee Trilogy review – food and culture clashes link these early gems

Ang Lee’s ‘father knows best’ trilogy, made with the great Chinese actor Sihung Lung, propelled him to fame

From Globe to global: a Shakespeare voyage around the world

Anti-apartheid hero, Nazi favourite, Bollywood inspiration – no other writer’s work is embedded in such a variety of cultures, and today takes such different forms

Mia Madre review – warm, witty and seductive drama

Director Nanni Moretti has got his mojo back in this sad, funny and satisfying movie about a film director who carries on working while her mother is dying

Film-maker sues Chinese censors over ‘ban’ on gay-themed movie

Mama Rainbow, about Chinese mothers who have learned to embrace their lesbian or gay children, disappeared inexplicably from streaming sites in 2014

Nanni Moretti: ‘I always feel there’s something missing’

Nanni Moretti’s mother was dying during the making of his last film. Now the Italian director has turned that experience into Mia Madre. But why did he cast a woman as himself?

A Girl at My Door review – first feature with a tinge of early Polanski

This strange psycho-melodrama, produced by Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong, could almost work as a pilot for a very dark TV series

Tangerines review – engaging, intelligent anti-war storytelling

The Oscar-nominated film about Georgian farmers caught up in a bloody civil war finally gets its much-deserved UK release

Horse Money review – austere work from the Samuel Beckett of world cinema

Portuguese film-maker Pedro Costa makes challenging, uncompromising films, yet his artistry always commands attention

Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot review – odd-couple pairing predictable, but watchable enough

This low-watt Italian comedy about a Falstaffian man’s relationship with his dart-wielding nephew doesn’t quite hit the mark