Documentary about pioneering French director Alice Guy-Blaché, generally considered to be the first woman to direct a film, in 1896.

Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda makes his French language debut with a drama starring Catherine Deneuve as a film star who has just published her (controversial) memoirs, and Juliette Binoche as her daughter.

What we said: “An engaging, oddly moving film from Jonze: a record of the live stage show he devised at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, in tribute to white hip-hop stars and tongue-in-cheek party-libertarian activists the Beastie Boys.”

What we said: “A fiercely engaged, complex drama of sexual identity and suppressed yearning in apartheid-era South Africa – a film with a humid intensity.”

Drama starring Julia Garner as the assistant to a New York film mogul, who has to cope with numerous humiliations and micro-aggressions as she becomes an enabler for his abuse.