RITA DI SANTO contemplates two films about journalism that opened this year’s festival

Memory, inheritance and resistance: a compelling Brazilian memoir, Argentinian short stories about the Japanese diaspora, and the Chilean skies of childhood, with LEO BOIX

MARY CONWAY keeps up with the sheer pace of a drama about the terrible gap between sanitised reporting and real-life turmoil of race and gender

GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a world-class production King Lear that pits late feudalism against a rising bourgeoisie

New releases from Brian Fallon, Antony Szmierek and Hollow Hand

PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries

APURBA CHATTERJEE explains how British artists in India used the “picturesque” to reshape colonial landscapes and celebrate imperial power

SIMON PARSONS applauds an exceptional performance of Wesker’s little-known play, by the same actor for whom it was written 45 years ago

JAMES NALTON feels history in the making, witnessing the latest shoegaze sensation in an intimate club

ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Late Fame, The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

ANGUS REID recommends a uniquely accomplished documentary collage that contemplates our relation to the natural world

GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience