Breeder review – muddled torture porn horror
Gonzo violence brings down what could have been an enjoyably bizarre melodrama about a creepy eternal-youth biotech facility
Dead Pigs review – winding tale of life in cash-crazed Shanghai
Cathy Yan’s sprawling drama uses a real-life discovery of 16,000 porcine corpses to pick away at Chinese commercialism
If It Were Love review – a dance doc powered by the exuberance of youth
Patric Chiha’s film follows a troupe rehearsing a major production and draws its charm from the carefree energy of its performers
The Recce review – madness of war in a wondrous land
An elite soldier is sent on a perilous solo mission in this underwhelming drama set during the Namibian war of independence
Birds (Or How to Be One) review – flighty avian-themed drama-doc
Babis Makridis takes to the sky with an experimental and sometimes difficult to watch manifesto inspired by Aristophanes’s play The Birds
Winter Flies review – teen tearaways ride their luck with a smile
Olmo Omerzu steers this Czech road movie gently, teasing wonderfully natural performances from his young leads
God of the Piano review – icy family drama is a virtuoso debut
A family worships musical greatness above all else in Itay Tal’s film about a mother raising a pianist son under the scrutiny of her family
‘I’ll never forget the silence on set’: revisiting the Srebrenica massacre
The devastating drama Quo Vadis, Aida? explores the run-up to the 1995 genocide. Actor Jasna Đuričić hopes the film will accelerate the healing process
Persian Lessons review – hard-to-believe Holocaust survival drama
Claiming to be inspired by true events, the story of a young Jewish man who stays alive by pretending to be half-Iranian strains credibility
Are We Lost Forever review – breakup drama runs out of steam, if not sex
This Swedish relationship drama starts promisingly, but the script is too soapy and laboured
Heroes Don’t Die review – reincarnation mystery is on life support
A young man searches for the truth after being told he is the reincarnation of a Bosnian soldier killed on the day he was born
About Some Meaningless Events review – attempted murder and the movies
In this intriguing film, banned in the 70s, Mostafa Derkaoui grapples with the purpose of cinema on the streets of Casablanca
Dear Comrades! review – stunning re-creation of a Soviet-era massacre
Andrei Konchalovsky’s account of the day Red Army soldiers and KGB snipers opened fire on strikers is a rage-filled triumph
Franka Potente: How we made Run Lola Run
‘I had to sprint across Berlin in a pair of Dr Marten boots – and I was smoking two packs a day back then’
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection review – an uncompromising tale of resistance
Mary Twala gives an intimate yet epic performance as an 80-year-old widow fighting plans for a dam that will obliterate her village in Lesotho