12 O’Clock Boys: the documentary for those suffering The Wire withdrawal
Paul Owen: Lotfy Nathan's account of young bikers on the rough streets familiar from The Wire illuminates Baltimore's social divisions
Jarvis Cocker on The Big Melt: ‘It’s not about steel, it’s the attitude’
Jarvis Cocker's The Big Melt combines archive film and live music in an alloy of heavy industry, Kes, electronica and sex. Interview by Catherine Shoard
The future of everything: book your ticket to FutureFest’s world of ideas
Festival curator Pat Kane explains the thinking behind the event and what visitors can expect to see and hear
The Crash Reel – first look review
Henry Barnes: The crash reel – a montage of falls by snowboarders – is turned painfully on its head in Lucy Walker's documentary about the long drop from athletic excellence to frail humanity
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer – first look review
Catherine Shoard: Sheffield Doc/Fest kicks off with a film on Russia's feminist punk collective, an at-times unsubtle study of naivety forced into acuity
Russian LGBT film festival targeted under ‘foreign agent’ laws
Bok o Bok (Side by Side) festival hit with heavy fine after failing to register foreign funding, which organisers deny receiving
Guardian Firestorm film about Tasmanian bushfire in competition
Interactive project about the plight of the Holmes family is in official selection at Sheffield's Doc/Fest
Trailer Trash
Shane Meadows on being a 'mad little Stone Roses fan', Gemma Arterton on perfecting her French, and actor Michael Shannon on working with rising indie director Jeff Nichols. By Jason Solomons
Richard Dreyfuss on Duddy Kravitz: ‘I hated it. Then I realised I was nuts’
The star of Jaws and Close Encounters made another early film, but it never got the credit it was due. Its rerelease reminds us that the young actor really had something special
Edinburgh international film festival announces lineup for 2013
New British films and American independents loom large in the Scottish cinema showcase, which also features two retrospectives and a revival of The Gorbals Story
Blue Is the Warmest Colour sex scenes are porn, says author of graphic novel
Julie Maroh is disappointed at absence of lesbian actors in film adaptation and describes lesbian sex scenes as 'ridiculous'
Blue Is the Warmest Colour is too moving to be porn
Peter Bradshaw: Julie Maroh, as author of its source novel, has unique credentials to comment, but for what it's worth I felt the film's descent into agony and tears took it clear of titillation
Cannes 2013 Palme d’Or goes to film about lesbian romance
Winning director of Blue Is the Warmest Colour pays tribute to French youth and Tunisian revolution
Cannes celebrates the movie mavericks
Four films from directors who have consistently gone against Hollywood's grain premiered at the festival last week, a sign that the outsider can still thrive in cinema