Black Souls review – gripping Italian crime drama

Francesco Munzi’s tale of the struggles within a Calabrian mob family is sombre and spare

Pordenone silent film festival – female spies, custard pies and skirt-ripping fun for all

The Italian celebration of the silent screen produced a bumper crop of rediscovered gems from around the world – including a Laurel and Hardy classic – to wave off outgoing artistic director David Robinson

Chantal Akerman: extraordinary artist of the everyday who we will miss for ever

The pioneering feminist film director died suddenly this week, aged 65. Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts, who have been curating a complete retrospective of her work, remember an extraordinary talent and friend

The Ang Lee Trilogy review – food and culture clashes link these early gems

Ang Lee’s ‘father knows best’ trilogy, made with the great Chinese actor Sihung Lung, propelled him to fame

From Globe to global: a Shakespeare voyage around the world

Anti-apartheid hero, Nazi favourite, Bollywood inspiration – no other writer’s work is embedded in such a variety of cultures, and today takes such different forms

Mia Madre review – warm, witty and seductive drama

Director Nanni Moretti has got his mojo back in this sad, funny and satisfying movie about a film director who carries on working while her mother is dying

Nanni Moretti: ‘I always feel there’s something missing’

Nanni Moretti’s mother was dying during the making of his last film. Now the Italian director has turned that experience into Mia Madre. But why did he cast a woman as himself?

A Girl at My Door review – first feature with a tinge of early Polanski

This strange psycho-melodrama, produced by Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong, could almost work as a pilot for a very dark TV series

Tangerines review – engaging, intelligent anti-war storytelling

The Oscar-nominated film about Georgian farmers caught up in a bloody civil war finally gets its much-deserved UK release

Horse Money review – austere work from the Samuel Beckett of world cinema

Portuguese film-maker Pedro Costa makes challenging, uncompromising films, yet his artistry always commands attention

Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot review – odd-couple pairing predictable, but watchable enough

This low-watt Italian comedy about a Falstaffian man’s relationship with his dart-wielding nephew doesn’t quite hit the mark

La Famille Bélier review – feelgood comedy

An award-winning French tale about a teenage girl and her deaf parents is frothy but moving

Avengers: Age of Ultron; The Age of Adaline; The Tribe; Hard to Be a God; The Wonders; The Salt of the Earth; The Dance of Reality; Marshland; Empire – review

Marvel’s latest lacks the wit of its forebears, and while Harrison Ford puts his heart into Adaline, the best of the week’s DVDs are foreign-language films

Abel Ferrara: ‘Pasolini’s death is not some kind of fictional event’

The fearless champion of bad taste talks spirituality, improvisation and his shamanic approach to shooting a film about Pasolini’s fateful final hours

The Second Mother review – master and servant roles under scrutiny

The delicate relationship between employer and servant is skilfully subverted and scrutinised in this funny, serious study of class in modern-day Brazil