Film

Nearly three hours long and containing only two jokes, with this film somehow you don’t mind

From Syrian construction workers in Beirut to life under post-Socialism: the 2017 Open City Documentary Festival in London

On the Marxist-inspired children's films of Hartmut Bitomsky and Harun Farocki, screened for the first time in more than 40 years 

From a close study of the American voting booth to a plague of hydrangeas: the New York Film Festival’s Projections slate, 6-9 October

The telling literalism in Western reviews of China’s summer blockbuster hit

The winner of this year's Palme d'Or is a fictionalized portrait of contemporary culture's new villain: the curator 

Two comedies from the recent Toronto International Film Festival highlight the relationship change between TV and cinema

Fifty years of writing by the filmmaker Thom Andersen 

What Luc Besson’s Valerian and a number of recent artists’ 3D films are getting right about our current reality

From a tribute to Straub/Huillet to Valerie Massadian’s portrait of teenage motherhood, the turn to real situations and people for fiction films

A new documentary portrays the Italian village that has performed plays about itself every summer for 50 years 

From a wild child to a talking mongoose: what to read this weekend

The filmmaker on being placed on a terror watch list, aesthetic approaches, and Julian Assange’s gender politics in her new documentary Risk

A digital portrait of the landscape that transformed our planet

This year’s Sundance Film Festival featured more movies directed by women than ever before, but gender discrimination in the industry is still endemic

On Alan Clarke’s Rita, Sue and Bob Too, the death of Ian Brady, and what laughter might conceal

Celebrating its 70th anniversary, a preview of some of the highlights of this year’s festival which opens today

From situationists to shame: what to read this weekend

Characters. Impersonations. Rumours.

From the virtues of cannibalism to how to photograph yourself naked: what to read this weekend