The Perfect Candidate review – powerful insight into Saudi absurdity

Haifaa al-Mansour, the first Saudi woman to direct a feature, goes back to basics with an effective story of a doctor trying to enter politics

Aniara review – a eerily mesmerising outer-space odyssey

Disaster leaves a public spacecraft adrift and its social order on the brink of breakdown in this cleverly pertinent sci-fi chiller

A Brazilian road movie that’s been wowing critics for two years finally makes its UK debut

The female objects of desire in this disappointing ménage à trois comedy by Louis Garrel are more fantasies than characters

A 1940s tale of refugees, riot police and stolen identities

Miguel Moreira’s Portuguese idler travels to Cape Verde to find his dad in in this meandering, lusciously shot drama

In Christian Petzold’s superbly deft drama, a fugitive steals someone else’s identity with deeply disturbing results

This sombre, angry documentary captures a sense of ordinary life in the strip bordered by Egypt, Israel and the sea

Dafoe adds watchability in this story of a composer obsessed with a long-ago disappearance, but this arthouse drama feels like a misstep

Limbs, teeth and live octopuses all come in for unblinkingly brutal treatment in Park Chan-wook’s stunning revenge epic

The French director’s 1969 spectacle about the wife of a pawnbroker who kills herself is still difficult, devastating and captivating 50 years on

Antonio de la Torre is magnetic as a politician at the centre of a web of betrayal in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s slow-burn thriller

Sex, violence and alpha-male malice collide with sickening consequences in Isabella Eklöf’s unflinching directorial debut

A lonely man young facing jail time strikes up an unlikely connection in this absorbing but exasperating urban drama

The debut feature by Mexican director Lila Avilés is a masterpiece of restraint