DAU. Natasha review – an exquisitely sinister study of Soviet oppression

As part of a colossal art project, Ilya Khrzhanovsky has made an intimately eerie examination of the banality of evil

Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier

Making films in another language is always a risk – for every Yorgos Lanthimos-style success, there’s a Wong Kar-wai disaster lurking around the corner

Pinocchio review – wooden-puppet fairytale goes back to the sweet-sour original

Director and co-writer Matteo Garrone embraces the grotesqueness and sentimentality of Collodi’s 1883 story

End of the Century review – post-coital reverie of sex, love and memory

Two men who meet in Barcelona have an unsettling feeling of deja vu in this elegant romantic drama

First Love review – a bloody slice of Tokyo pulp fiction

A flamboyantly violent boy-meets-girl crime caper

Classics of modern South Korean cinema – ranked!

Global interest in Korean film has been piqued by Bong Joon-ho’s satirical Parasite, which has won the Palme d’Or and best picture at the Oscars. Here are 19 more Korean masterpieces

First Love review – brilliantly bizarre, ultra-violent yakuza caper

A terminally-ill boxer helps out a troubled sex worker in Takashi Miike’s strange and wildly energetic film – his 103rd

A Paris Education review – partying in Paris like it’s 1968

A bunch of attractive young people study film, quote poetry and have sex, in a black and white drama fatally lacking narrative drive and passion

Korean cinema’s global reach highlighted by Parasite’s Oscar win

Fans emphasise rich diversity of film-making, which has been thrilling audiences for years

Parasite’s best picture Oscar could kickstart a new era of internationalism

If the Academy Awards want to regain relevancy and excitement, they should reward more global success stories

Parasite review – searing satire of a family at war with the rich

Members of an unemployed family target a wealthy household in Bong Joon-ho’s superbly written, horribly fascinating comedy-drama

Fando y Lis review – Jodorowsky’s freaks-and-flesh debut

Embarking on a bizarre desert quest, a mysterious couple encounter strange scenes and lots of nudity in the Chilean director’s rereleased 60s ‘happening’

Willem Dafoe and Hillary Clinton to attend Berlin film festival

Dafoe stars in Abel Ferrara’s Siberia in a competition that beats out Cannes and Venice for female directors, while a documentary about Clinton shows outside the main lineup