White Shadow review – challenging but rewarding
This story of a boy struggling to survive in Tanzania is harrowing to watch but also marbled with moments of transcendent beauty
David Stratton: ‘What’s the point of making movies nobody goes to see?’
The movie critic and patron of the French film festival on seeing new-wave cinema for the first time and what France can teach Australia about film
White God (Fehér isten) review – canine carnage
Pathos, insight and political allegory light up a dark drama of feral fighting dogs in Budapest
Ida and Leviathan: under attack at home, but heading for Oscar glory
The favourites for best foreign language film – Ida and Leviathan – have already stirred controversy in Poland and Russia
Ida wins Oscar for best foreign language film
Paweł Pawlikowski’s film about a novice nun in the 1960s who discovers she is Jewish becomes first Polish film to win award
Cars, drugs and virginity tests dominate Iranian film festival
Tehran’s Fajr film festival, which marks the anniversary of the Islamic revolution, has ditched weighty themes in favour of populist blockbusters
Fifty Shades of Grey so dominates global box office it could whip Mamma Mia!
Universal’s titillator claims several eastern-European records en route to $237.7m worldwide
Dancing in Jaffa review – documentary waltzes and tangoes for peace
Hilla Medalia captures ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine as he uses fancy footwork to bring together Palestinian and Jewish children
Berlin 2015 review: The Club – think Calvary, not Father Ted
Pablo Larraín’s terrific fifth movie is the initially oddball, increasingly chilling story of greyhound-fancying ministers on a wind-whipped island
DVDs and downloads: Middle of Nowhere, Enemy, Scoop, Magic in the Moonlight and more
Selma wasn’t the first remarkable film made by Ava DuVernay
Berlin 2015: Diary of a Chambermaid review – up the garden path, but elegantly
Peter Bradshaw: The classic novel of below-stairs power struggles has become a strangely directionless study of bourgeois desperation, despite a fine central performance from Léa Seydoux
Oscars 2015: what will win best foreign language film?
The Academy creeps towards world cinema credibility with a slate of acclaimed nominees, from Pawlikowski’s wistful Ida to short story collection Wild Tales
Trash review – ‘Slumdog Millionaire meets City of God’
Stephen Daldry’s tale of Rio street kids has grit, humour and outstanding performances from its young cast, writes Mark Kermode
Pelo Malo review – coming of age in Caracas
A mother and son face personal crises amid inner-city turmoil in Mariana Rondon’s vibrant drama, writes Mark Kermode
‘Anti-Putin’ Oscar nominee Leviathan gets wide Russian release
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film has been subject to fierce official criticism for its portrayal of modern Russia and cold-shouldered by state TV – but the controversy has stoked local interest