Still the Water review – diverting Zen water-feature romance

Serene and engaging, if a little indulgent, Naomi Kawase’s feature is a prose-poem about death and love

Les combattants review – outlaw humour meets heartfelt emotion

Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel bring wit and warmth to this tale of young love and survivalism

Les Combattants review – slow-burner of a romance from French talent

Thomas Cailley’s debut, about a college dropout and a young carpenter in northern France, takes its own sweet time about showing its hand, but proves the director is one to watch

Mano Khalil: Refugees are like you – they have children, they cry, they laugh

Born and later imprisoned in Syria, Kurdish director Mano Khalil found asylum in Switzerland where he befriended a fellow refugee: a beekeeper. As his own family faces the twin threats of Assad and Isis, he tells both their stories

In bed with Belmondo: Raymond Cauchetier and the new wave

Francois Truffaut sharing a cigarette with a choirboy, Jean Seberg nervously biting her nails, and a topless Jean-Paul Belmondo … Raymond Cauchetier was there with his Rolleiflex. The veteran photographer shares his secrets from the birth of 1960s cool

Sydney film festival 2015: 10 things to see and do, from Scientology to sushi cinema

From a five-hour Filipino epic to a three-course Japanese meal and Blacktown’s retro drive-in, Luke Buckmaster picks top screenings and experiences to savour

The New Girlfriend review – witty French psychosexual comedy

Anaïs Demoustier puts in a storming performance as a woman who discovers another side to the husband of her late best friend

Yakuza Apocalypse review – berserk mess of a gangster-vampire hybrid

Japanese genre master Takashi Miike comes to Cannes with a yakuza-meets-vampires-meets-monsters movie; no wonder, perhaps, that it’s just a mish-mash

Hirokazu Kore-eda: ‘They compare me to Ozu. But I’m more like Ken Loach’

The Japanese auteur talks about his Cannes drama Our Little Sister, absences in families, and his TV-movie and fast-food childhood

Mountains May Depart review: Jia Zhangke scales new heights with futurist drama

This giddily ambitious new movie from the Chinese film-maker begins relatively conventionally, before spinning out into a commentary on globalisation and a glimpse of a bravura new world

Mustang review: The Virgin Suicides in Anatolia is a sweet, sad Turkish delight

The fear of lost sexual innocence underpins this ebullient sibling comedy-drama with shades of Sofia Coppola

Son of Saul review: an outstanding, excoriating look at evil in Auschwitz

This remarkable debut film, about a prisoner in the concentration camp employed in the industrial processes of body disposal, is a horror movie of extraordinary focus and courage

The Tribe review – one of the most disturbing films of the year

Squeaking shoes and grunts of anger are the only soundtrack to this brutal and supremely strange Ukrainian film about a school for the deaf falling into anarchy