Anton Bitel rounds up recent highlights from the Philippines’ broad and bustling film industry – plus a missive from Mongolia that couldn’t be ignored.
Sini Anderson’s crowdfunded, zine-styled portrait of riot grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna gets playful and powerful with the personal and political, says Sophie Mayer.
Congratulations to Cannes’ rising stars Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Alice Rohrwacher; commiserations to the ill-rewarded Marion Cotillard and Abderrahmane Sissako, says Nick James.
Ken Loach winds down half a century of fiction-film mastery with a relatively minor study of a dissident spirit in post-revolutionary Ireland, reports Nick Roddick.
The country’s shiny-booted bosses may have looked away, but Turkish film watchers have long known about exploitative conditions down their mines, says Kaya Genç.