Futuro Beach review – pining for the waves
In this tenderly composed, languid study of the nature of exile, Brazilian lifeguard Donato finds himself living in Berlin – but he’s not sure why
Mad Max: from the Ozploitation wilderness to the mainstream
George Miller’s post-apocalyptic classic emerged from the misfit band of trash cinema that was the byproduct of Australia’s art-movie boom. But his road warrior ended up defining a new, quirkier alternative to the Hollywood mainstream
If you can create a new lexicon, why then resort to genre cliches?
New Ukrainian film The Tribe and Paul Kingsnorth’s latest novel both rethink how we use language, but then fail to buck convention with their plots
Samba review – upbeat French comedy drama
From the directors who brought us the breezy Intouchables comes the story of a Senegalese kitchen worker struggling to stay in France
The 10 best films about films
With Fellini’s flamboyant 8½ back in cinemas this week, here are the 10 best self-referential movies
Cannes 2015: how foreign-language film-makers took over English-language arthouse
This year’s film festival is dominated by movies made in English by non-native English-speaking directors. Is this an ominous sign of Hollywood killing off foreign cinema?
Samba review – tough social realism meets sugary romantic comedy
A mismatch of tones, weird narrative leaps, scenes that go nowhere, but at least it doesn’t decend into miserablism
A Letter to Momo review – painterly Japanese anime full of magic and emotion
Anime veteran Hiroyuki Okiura changes pace with this charming but disquieting tale of a bereaved young girl making a new life – and some strange new friends – on a remote, sleepy island
Au revoir l’été review – subversive drama
Koji Fukada skewers modern Japanese society through the eyes of a teenage girl who dreams of escape
Exit review – bittersweet midlife crisis
A woman’s lonely battle against a life in collapse provides comedy and pathos in Chienn Hsiang’s directorial debut
Exit review – sensitive Taiwanese mid-life drama
Chen Shiang-chyi gives an outstanding performance as a lonely menopausal women in Chienn Hsiang’s semi-hopeful drama
The Dorkels review – grotty reality and symbolism in French crime drama
A youngster accompanies his relatives on an armed robbery in Hue’s film blurring the lines between fiction and documentary
Rigor Mortis review – startlingly grisly if occasionally cliched horror
Juno Mak’s effective semi-remake of 1980s Hong Kong horror-comedy series Mr Vampire finds an actor plunged into a maelstrom of supernatural shocks
Au Revoir l’Été review – sweetly erotic Japanese drama in the Eric Rohmer vein
Here is a sweet summer breeze of a film – the charming, sensuous tale of an 18-year-old girl who goes to stay with her aunt at the seaside and gets mixed up in all manner of romantic entanglements
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence review – a unique hallucinatory trilogy
A new darkness of tone pervades the conclusion to Swedish auteur Roy Andersson’s incredible film about the human condition