Vagabond review – Agnès Varda’s classic chronicle of a death foretold

Revived to mark the director’s 90th birthday, the story of a young woman’s short, troubled life is cool, enigmatic and as gripping as any thriller

Little Vera review – nudity and sex behind the iron curtain

Made in the final years of the Soviet Union, the sensational tale of a sexually voracious teenager was the key perestroika movie

Best films of 2018 so far

The very best of 2018, from Black Panther rewriting the rules for superheroes, Gary Oldman going to war as Churchill, and Maxine Peake blazing her way through 70s sexism

A Ciambra review – a coming-of-age tale with real family at heart

A young Roma boy and his relatives play fictionalised versions of themselves in a fascinating study of Italian society

How Beyoncé and Jay-Z put a visionary African film back in the spotlight

Touki Bouki was a commercial flop in 1973. But the arresting image used in the couple’s latest tour has sparked new interest

Tranny Fag review – cheeky melodrama in real-time portrait

This documentary about transgender artist and performer Linn da Quebrada eschews biography for an in-the-moment snapshot

The Ciambra review – rush of storytelling and style

Non-professional actors light up the screen in this coming-of-age story – produced by Martin Scorsese – set in a Roma gypsy community

Ismaël’s Ghosts review – self-indulgent French drama

Arnaud Desplechin’s disappearance mystery ruins a promising start with tedious, wordy excess

Lucrecia Martel: ‘The Oscars are a joke’

The ‘Terrence Malick of Latin American cinema’ quit directing, bought a boat, sailed upriver, then sold it to make a movie about how her ‘difficulties as a white, middle-class woman are nothing’

The Breadwinner review – clarity and charm in twist-of-fate animation

How do you keep your family going in Kabul when the only male provider has been imprisoned? Parvana steps up in this delightful film

The Wild Pear Tree review – Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s delicious, humane tableaux

The Turkish director’s unhurried, magnificently acted film follows a bumptious young writer who returns home to face bittersweet truths

Early warning: why are films about childhood in crisis looming over Cannes?

From shoplifting kids to a girl growing up in the wild, a crop of films at Cannes focus on children finding unusual ways to navigate a terrifying modern world

Capernaum review – kid sues parents in angry tale of Beirut child poverty

Once it overcomes its cloying setup, Nadine Labaki’s film about an 12-year-old embittered by his grim circumstances is an arresting look at crushed innocence