Rise up: Alain Kassanda’s documentary captures Nigeria's campus protests—and the role that cinema can play in politics

Window on the world: incarcerated journalist Phillip Vance Smith, II delves into how people in prisons watch movies—the streaming devices available, the viewing options, the costs of renting a film, and more

Dirty work: Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera unearths the contradictions at the heart of a brittle society where culture is yet another arena in which the wealthy exploit the poor

Easy rider: the late cinematographer Navroze Contractor wielded the camera as both a weapon and a paintbrush, giving stunning form to bold adventures in independent Indian fiction

Smackdown: Doug Liman’s Road House remake and Dev Patel’s the vigilante thriller Monkey Man, two exemplars of the Action Movie, balance style and substance to different effect

More please: Arnow’s comedic auto-portrait of a woman adrift in New York City is a moving exploration of romantic and existential indecision, sexual self-expression, humiliation, and the uses of first-person experience in storytelling