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“THE STATION”
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THE STORY – Layal runs a women-only petrol station in Yemen, a safe haven in a war-torn country. There, the rules are simple: no men, no weapons, no politics. When Layal’s younger brother faces enlistment, she reunites with her estranged sister...
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“HER PRIVATE HELL”
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THE STORY – When a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from...
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Cannes Review: Ben’Imana Is a Powerful Drama About Lingering Anguish
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In Ben’Imana, the perpetrators of a genocide are being put on public trial, but it just as often feels like the families of their victims are being forced to plead their case. The first Rwandan film to premiere in Cannes’...
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Echoes: How Laika Studios Beat Hollywood Giants
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Allow me to take you into a bewitching world of animation styled by Laika. Laika is known for visually satisfying aesthetics with soft and comforting hues that haven't been witnessed in any other animated films produced by several other studios....
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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’
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The Romanian master filmmaker Cristian Mungiu moves away from a backdrop he knows far too well to explore the family unit way further up north. Winner of the Palme d’Or in 2007 for his sophomore feature 4 Months, 3 Weeks...
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The Unknown (L’Inconnue) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
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She Who Is Not: Harari Explores Existential Identity Issues in the Body Swap “A woman, for me, must remain a woman,” stated Andrey Tarkovsky when once asked what he thought about women, proposing their innate femininity and weakness as their...
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2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Arthur Harari’s ‘The Unknown’
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French director Arthur Harari might be best known as the co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall, but prior to that he saw 2013’s Peine perdue land at the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week and his 2021’s Onoda: 10,000 Nights in...
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“JIM QUEEN”
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THE STORY – In the heart of Paris’s gay scene, Jim reigns supreme: the ultimate Gym Queen, influencer, and object of universal thirst. But when a bizarre virus called Heterosis starts turning gay men straight, his reign ends overnight. Unfollowed, abandoned,...
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“WHEN THE NIGHT FALLS”
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THE STORY – August 1942. Amid the occupation, the Vichy government organizes a mass round-up of foreign Jews. Gilbert Lesage, a young civil servant at the Service Social des Étrangers, is tasked with setting up a screening commission to rule on...
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“THE UNKNOWN”
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THE STORY – Photographer David Zimmerman rarely leaves home until friends bring him to a wild party. He becomes fixated on a mysterious woman and follows her. By dawn, his life transforms – he awakens in her body. THE CAST – Léa...
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