Closer to the Moon review: political theory just got much more interesting

The story of a heist movie, made using real-life robbers and based on actual events, released as a propaganda film in 1960s Romania to deter political seditionaries – you couldn’t make it up

Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision review – addictively epic

Edgar Reitz’s fifth, beautifully monochrome instalment in the supra-epic Heimat series sees the German villagers dreaming of escape to Brazil

The Invisible Life review – intriguing study of male loneliness

Vítor Gonçalves’s first film for 29 years displays a devotion to darkness but is sometimes exasperatingly inert

Stones for the Rampart: Battle for Warsaw review – all the fun of the fight

A pair of young saboteurs undermine German occupation, but at what cost, in Glinski’s thrills-and-spills wartime drama

Gente de Bien review – growing up fast in Bogotá

A reluctant father has much to learn in this believably naturalistic drama that artfully explores Colombia’s class differences

Force Majeure review – compelling, intelligent and grimly entertaining

Ruben Östlund’s tale of a couple’s disintegrating relationship in the wake of an avalanche is a triumph of calm detachment

Jauja review – a magical mind-bender of the subtlest kind

Lunar landscapes and a haunting score co-written by star Viggo Mortensen lend a surreal quality to Lisandro Alonso’s Patagonian period drama

Russian film directors win $19m state backing for patriotic fast-food chain

Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov awarded around a billion rubles to help finance Eat At Home! – billed as a homegrown rival to McDonald’s

Blind review – impeccably composed

Joachim Trier collaborator Eskil Vogt’s directorial debut is an intense piece about a blind woman withdrawing in a fantasy world, writes Peter Bradshaw

Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) review – gripping Argentinian revenge portmanteau

This delicious chocolate box of nasty, untamed tales about revenge from Argentina will have you biting your fist with traumatised horror

DVDs and downloads: Paddington, The Drop, The Homesman and more

A 21st-century Paddington is a triumph, Tom Hardy is outstanding in The Drop, and Hilary Swank rides high on the prairie

White Shadow review – challenging but rewarding

This story of a boy struggling to survive in Tanzania is harrowing to watch but also marbled with moments of transcendent beauty

David Stratton: ‘What’s the point of making movies nobody goes to see?’

The movie critic and patron of the French film festival on seeing new-wave cinema for the first time and what France can teach Australia about film

White God (Fehér isten) review – canine carnage

Pathos, insight and political allegory light up a dark drama of feral fighting dogs in Budapest

Ida and Leviathan: under attack at home, but heading for Oscar glory

The favourites for best foreign language film – Ida and Leviathan – have already stirred controversy in Poland and Russia