The Green Inferno, Welcome to Leith and Zoolander 2

J.C. Chandor, Aleksey Fedorchenko and Hirokazu Koreeda: Bert Rebhandl shares his highlights from 2015

Highlights of the best new artist's film and releases in the cinema

Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s exploration of the post-Soviet condition

Included in the German pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Hito Steyerl’s pointed and playful disruptions in digital environments

Stefan Hayn’s new film STRAUB and his painterly approach to documentaries

The life and work of Swiss filmmaker Peter Liechti, who died in April

The films of Albert Serra

How German-language cinema is joining the global horror boom

Has Hollywood primed us for total surveillance?

The quasi-documentaries of Viennese filmmakers Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel

For 20 years, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has been documenting icons of Modernist architecture

Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies trilogy brings the moving image to a standstill

The new wave of social-realist storytelling in American cinema

What’s all the fuss about Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master? The first rave reviews of Anderson’s new, well, designated 'masterpiece' came on the social media, of course. Friends and colleagues who had seen a 70mm-projection at the Venice Film Festival a couple of weeks ago were mostly in awe and expected a sure win of the Golden Lion (it went to Kim Ki-duk instead).

Philip Scheffner’s work stands for a new wave of German political documentary. His latest film Revision restores the history of two refugees who died under mysterious circimstances

The filmmaker Romuald Karmakar is redefining his oeuvre – and cinema itself – on YouTube

Working between documentaries and blockbusters, Brazilian director José Padilha is reviving the legacy of neo-realism

Does Michael Haneke’s lauded new film mark a shift away from his earlier critique of mainstream cinema?