United States of Love review – liberation is desperation in a sick new world
Four women living in Poland as the Soviet empire falls are oppressed by joyless sex and yearning in Tomasz Wasilewski’s unnervingly sad and icy film
We Are the Flesh review – welcome to the eroto-pocalypse
It’s all red filter, hardcore action and impending doom in this orgiastic dystopian nightmare set in Mexico
The Innocents review – striking and sober
This powerful tale of sexual abuse of nuns in wartime Poland recalls both Ida and Of Gods and Men
Divines director Houda Benyamina: ‘It’s better to make a film than a bomb’
Inspired by the fury of France’s 2005 riots, the French-Moroccan film-maker channelled her anger into art. The result was a Camera D’Or-winning below-the-banlieues thriller
Girls Lost review – magical realism with gender issues
Three bullied girls are turned into boys in this sensual Swedish drama-cum-fairytale
The Last Family review – mesmerising portrait of a battling brood
Jan P Matuszynski recreates the real-life story of a fractious family living on a bleak Warsaw housing estate with incisive aplomb
Matt Dillon to play serial killer in new Lars von Trier film
Actor takes lead in Danish director’s latest, The House that Jack Built, in which he plays a murderer who believes he is creating art with his killings
After Love review – Bejo and Kahn prove that breaking up is hard to do
Bérénice Bejo and Cédric Kahn star in a painfully intimate, horribly fascinating drama about the emotional and financial complexities of a separation
Sonita review – profile of an irrepressible wordsmith
An Afghan teen uses rap to attack the practice of selling daughters into marriage in this powerful documentary
Sembène! review – legacy trumps scrutiny in Senegalese director doc
This respectful documentary stays faithful to Ousmane Sembène’s iconoclastic legend, leaving questions and contradictions by the wayside
Tharlo review – a Tibetan fable
There’s rich allegory and inventive use of sound in this tale of a goatherd’s adventures in the big city
Under the Shadow review – ghostly Iranian gem
Otherworldly forces terrorise a mother and daughter in this provocative horror set in 1980s Tehran
Under the Shadow review – supremely scary horror from Iran
Babak Anvari’s disturbing ghost story, set in Tehran during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, is a brilliant parable of supernatural invasion
Tharlo review – serviceable arthouse glimpse of life in Tibet
Pema Tseden’s monochrome fable about an innocent shepherd coming to town is packed with familiar devices but none the worse for that
The Fencer review – Touché! Swordplay drama is directed with vim
Klaus Härö’s tale of a champion fencer on the run from the KGB who winds up teaching schoochildren has strong performances and is luscious to look at