April director Dea Kulumbegashvili: ‘The woman was still alive, but they already knew they would not be able to save her’
The film-maker was taken aback by an incident at a hospital as she prepared to make her second feature. Everyday life in Georgia can be horrible, she says
Verdigris review: Irish director Patricia Kelly’s remarkable debut is a delicate drama about tricky subjects
Patricia Kelly’s first film is powered along by tremendous performances from Geraldine McAlinden and Maya O’Shea
Grand Tour review: An epic, enchanting globe-trotting adventure
The Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes thoroughly deserved his best-director award at Cannes
Julie Keeps Quiet director Leonardo Van Dijl: ‘I didn’t want to make a film about a hashtag’
The director’s debut feature is a gripping post-#MeToo drama about a teenage tennis prodigy. Has she been groomed?
Four new films to see this week
Engrossing Lennon/Ono doc is a fascinating time capsule. Plus an amusing Irish spin-off, a gritty, austere take on The Odyssey, and an exuberant, smash-hit French comedy
Holy Cow review: Box-office smash powered along by youthful exuberance, earthy sex scenes and keen naturalism
Louise Courvoisier’s film about an orphaned teen on a mission to make a prize-winning wheel of cheese has been a huge hit in France
The Return: In Ralph Fiennes’s new film, a minimalist take on The Odyssey, even the loincloths are skimpy
Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of the gory closing chapters of Homer’s epic poem eschews witches, monsters and goddesses in favour of PTSD
Four new films to see this week
Pleasant Irish comedy Four Mothers, plus Richard Burton’s origin story, a cracking British thriller, and a slacker vibe video game adaptation
A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess: ‘On a big movie there’s so much to do, so much to pull off. You’re always dry-heaving’
Hess, the film-maker behind the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, on his love of Minecraft, working with Jack Black and making a big budget film
A Minecraft Movie review: Jason Momoa and Jack Black have a ball in a proudly silly family adventure
There’s plenty here for fans of Minecraft to recognise and enjoy
Mr Burton review: Absorbing Richard Burton origin story features a tremendous Harry Lawtey as the future Hollywood star
Lawtey doesn’t simply inhabit the role in Marc Evan’s fine biopic: he metamorphosises
John and Yoko’s One to One gig: ‘This was his only full-length concert after leaving The Beatles. It’s of huge significance’
Kevin Macdonald on his new film, based around the benefit event Lennon and Ono performed at in New York in 1972
La Cocina review: A kitchen drama that makes The Bear feel like listening to Enya in a garden centre
Alonso Ruizpalacios’s thrilling, sprawling drama is seldom less than operatic, with an emotional register to match
Misericordia review: We know whodunit in this Hitchcockian murder-comedy. But what’s everyone else up to?
This heavily decorated French film offers a heady and murky marriage of enigmatic motivations, sexual and otherwise