Parables and paradoxes: the Czech festival marked the centenary of Franz Kafka's death with a retrospective of films exploring the writer's influence in the movies
Worlds apart: the Japanese auteur discusses his Cannes Queer Palm–winner Monster, a clever, multiperspectival drama about the inner world of children that adults cannot—often to great detriment—access or comprehend
A flurry of metaphors: Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a profane and laugh-out-loud funny film about the open (and oft-denied) wounds of Romania’s fraught history
