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Heavy hitters and hot tickets: Cannes 2017 is as mouthwatering as ever

Michael Haneke’s Happy End leads the charge for this year’s Palme d’Or, but there are tasty spectacles on the Croisette wherever you look

Raw review – cannibal fantasy makes for a tender dish

Julia Ducournau’s debut about a young woman’s taste for human flesh is an exhilarating blend of horror, humour and heartbreak

Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang review – high-stakes fun for real kids

Mischievous twins on a summer-school mystery in this Spanish-language children’s adventure

Graduation review – a scalding study of corruption

A philandering doctor’s life starts to unravel in Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s superb satire

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul review – a searing tale of love and prejudice

Fassbinder’s 1970s spin on All That Heaven Allows is re-released as part of a BFI season celebrating his work

Fear Eats the Soul review – love versus racism in Fassbinder’s exquisite tale

Cleaner Emmi loves immigrant Ali, 20 years her junior – to the chagrin of 1970s Munich – in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s heart-rending and extremely prescient drama

The muse and the monster: Fassbinder’s favourite star on surviving his abuse

He tormented his actors, threw drinks at his cameraman, and died of an overdose at 37, leaving behind two dead lovers – and an extraordinary body of work. As a Fassbinder season begins at the BFI, Hanna Schygulla reveals how she survived

Aquarius review – she shall not be moved

Sônia Braga is outstanding as a retired music critic refusing to be forced out of her apartment in a powerful Brazilian satire

The Age of Shadows review – handsome 1920s double-agent spy drama

Set in Japanese-occupied Korea, Kim Jee-woon’s violent tale delivers bang for its buck in the form of brash action sequences and a chase on a train

Aquarius review – Sônia Braga brilliant as a widow on the warpath

The Brazilian actor delivers her finest performance in this affecting tale of a woman defiantly refusing to move out of her flat while also determinedly pursuing a thrilling sex life

The Salesman review – Oscar-winning excellence

This Iranian domestic drama from the director of A Separation lays its symbolism on with a trowel – but it works

A Silent Voice review – lushly emotional

Naoko Yamada’s animation about a young man seeking forgiveness from the victim of his childhood bullying, is a real tear jerker

The Salesman review – Asghar Farhadi’s potent, disquieting Oscar-winner

The film caught up in the travel ban row tells the story of a sexual assault that exposes the emotions seething beneath the surface of Iranian bourgeois life

Seoul Station review – social realism infects animated zombie prequel

The prequel to Train to Busan is a more downbeat affair – a social satire with political ideas and a nasty conclusion

The Olive Tree review – captivating Spanish drama

A young woman decides to rescue her grandfather’s olive tree, sold to a German company as a green symbol, in Icíar Bollaín’s low-key, heartfelt film

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