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She broke onto the scene when her 2023 short landed in the Sundance Film Festival (it was our top ranked short of that edition) and from there Alexandra Qin has been riding a wave morphing the short into her ambitious...

After a trio of shorts a decade or so back, Polish filmmaker Aga Woszczyńska landed on the film scene when her feature debut Silent Land shored up in the prestigious Platform section at TIFF back in 2021 for the hybrid...

Rebecca Marder, recently seen in Ozon’s The Stranger, Nadia Melliti, who captured the Cannes Best Actress prize for La petite dernière, and Antoine Reinartz (Anatomy of a Fall) are set to lead the cast of Chercher la fille, the third...

IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones. Our Cannes coverage continues well beyond the festival dates....

The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley, Angele Diabang, Laura Samani, and Lebanese composer Khaled Mouzanar handed out the prizing for the Un Certain Regard section (and we have those moments captured on video). Sandra Wollner deserving won...

Last week Clive Owen let it slip that he was working on a new project by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (we’ve been patiently waiting for his sophomore post The Tribe effort) and now we’ve got the first wave of updates in terms...

Beginning with Karlovy Vary world preemed The Wednesday Child (2015) and then the Venice-TIFF preemed Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020), Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát has been attracted to themes of female identity, connection and...

Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen is set to take the plunge, not only will he be switching languages, but he’ll be changing landscapes for his upcoming third feature film (which was recently featured 2026 Investors Circle Initiative). Lensing on Dream Come...

This year, the Critics’ Week gifted us a feature debut that layers a visual sensibility to a coming-of-age film that captures the fragile moment when adolescence fractures into adulthood. Most recently praised for other Cannes showcases in The Girl in...

Making his second splash in Cannes after seeing his short Lori land a Special Mention in 2022, Nepali filmmaker Abinash Bikram Shah looks towards balancing realism with spirituality in a text that is an intersection between politics, faith, gender identity,...