The farmer and author on allowing nature to transform and restore our ecology – and how the best way to measure progress is through dung beetlesAt lunch in Hove, a block back from the seafront, on the first summery day of the year, Isabella Tree is explaining the phrase that best describes her work: “Don’t just do something, stand there.”The phrase...

An ex-con and his son spin around Casablanca trying to dispose of a huge corpse in Kamal Lazraq’s good-looking, if uneven, Cannes winnerA winner at last year’s Cannes, this by turns grim and quirky crime drama, from Kamal Lazraq, is set in Casablanca and lit like a Caravaggio painting. A macho, feckless and sporadically pious Moroccan ex-con (Abdellatif...

A trip to Auschwitz raises painful family history in a film that fumbles its honourable intentions with overstuffed and miscast charactersStephen Fry and Lena Dunham play a Jewish father and daughter who miscommunicate their way through 90s Poland, until a visit to Auschwitz allows them to dig up the past (literally). There’s no doubting the good intentions...

The actor on playing a Polish Holocaust survivor alongside Lena Dunham, what he likes about hip‑hop and why a boring PM would be a reliefStephen Fry, 66, is an actor, broadcaster, writer, presenter and director. As a teenager, he was expelled from school, went to prison for credit card fraud and failed his A-levels before retaking them, resulting in...

The Zellner brothers follow a family of grunting sasquatches played by Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough in a wonderful one-off that is equal parts crass humour and genuine poignancyIt might be one of the finest pieces of acting of the year so far. Near the end of Sasquatch Sunset, the gloriously weird feature from David and Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough...

In this sequel to the celebrated 2015 animation, teenage Riley battles unpredictable new emotions and peer pressureHow typical of Pixar to make a summer sequel that explores normative social influence and introduces us to a Gallic character called Ennui, only to give said character a nickname (Wee Wee) guaranteed to make under-10s giggle. The company...