Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott calls before joining Harry Potter audiobooks

Actor, who voices Dolores Umbridge in the new full-cast recordings, says she hopes ‘we can all find respect’ amid renewed controversy over Rowling’s views on trans rights

Cutting Through Rocks review – the female firebrand fighting the patriarchy in rural Iran

Sara Shahverdi refuses to accept the norms of her deeply conservative village as she becomes its first female councillor. But for every step forward, as this dynamic documentary shows, a further obstacle is thrown in her path

Tomorrow I Leave review – poignant portrait of a care worker sacrificing her home life for her work

The paradoxical emotional push and pull of those forced to migrate for work is vividly captured in Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel’s intimate portrait

Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what has changed?

Phone bans are now well-established in many Australian primary and secondary schools. Have they made a difference?

TikTok influencers fuelling parallel market for unlicensed weight-loss drug

Guardian finds a thriving trade on Telegram for retatrutide, which is still in clinical trials and illegal to sell

Torture, blackmail, extortion: the dangers of queer online dating in Ghana

Homophobic attacks on LGBTQ+ community rising as criminals, using social media to lure victims, are emboldened by political debate

Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story – exhilarating record of game-changing photographer

Brathwaite’s empowering images of African Americans in the 1960s gave a new generation a fresh template for representation, brilliantly honoured here

Iron Ladies review – inspiring account of the women on the miners’ strike picket lines

Fascinating exploration of the women inspired to activism in the Margaret Thatcher era of union-bashing

I Swear review – biopic of pioneering Tourette syndrome activist is funny, fierce and full of heart

Kirk Jones’s moving film about of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette, offers compassion and catharsis

A Want in Her review – daughter’s searing portrait of family addiction and mental illness

Film-maker Myrid Carten exposes her relationship with her mother – who has both bipolar disorder and alcoholism – in this painful but powerful documentary

Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’

Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

The Partiful app is a ‘vibey’ nightmare. Here’s my party-invitation solution

This year was the year of Partiful, a purple mess that won’t even let me be passive-aggressive without chastising me

The Burden review – deeply personal portrait of living with Aids in secret

Elvis Sabin Ngaibino’s poignant documentary shows the pressures faced by family members forced to keep their condition hidden in their deeply religious community

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes

996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever’s wrong with 888 – or even 000?

Silicon Valley is keen, once more, on a working pattern of 12-hour days, six days a week. It really is time for a new approach, says Emma Beddington