Kaleem Aftab

The Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film Winter Sleep, competing at Cannes, is ponderously long but the crackling dialogue keeps you riveted until the end.

In Shira Geffen's Self Made, which is playing in the Critics' Week sidebar selection in Cannes, an Israeli performance artist and a Palestinian shop worker, swap lives following a clerical error at a checkpoint.

Catch Me Daddy is a visceral chase movie that is being touted as a British Western, with outlaws and bounty hunters chasing their prey through the Yorkshire Moors.

Salma Hayek is bringing Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, a book she loved as a child, to life with the help of nine famous animators and the Doha Film Institute.

In conversation with Alice Kharoubi, head of Cannes Short Films and in charge of programming at ADFF.

The best moments in the Godzilla film are those featuring the seemingly mad scientist Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) as he talks of conspiracies and cover-ups.

Grace of Monaco is a car crash that creates a fiction out of factual situations.

Stars Dane DeHaan and Felicity Jones talk about their latest comic book blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

The British Film Institute's Discover Arab Cinema programme is dedicated to the late Sheila Whitaker, the former director of the London Film Festival who promoted cinema from the Arab region in the UK and was heavily involved with the Dubai International Film Festival.

The Palestinian film director and two-time Oscar nominee Hany Abu-Assad steps away from politics for his next film: a love story set in America.

Stars Jude Law and Emilia Clarke talk to us about their new film Dom Hemingway.

Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Sebastian Stan talk about their latest Captain America movie, out this weekend in cinemas.

Blood Ties, despite pumping out some exhilarating action sequences, ends up becoming a cliché-ridden work.

In Viola Shafik’s Arij – Scent of Revolution, the accounts of a Coptic activist, a socialist writer, a young cyberspace designer and the biggest collector of photo negatives in Egypt are combined to form a complex portrait of history and politics.

The big problem with this time-travelling romp is that it already feels dated.