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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,...

Set within a tightly knit Bedouin community in Lebanon, Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep unfolds less as a traditional drama than as a sensory experience, gradually revealing the constrained realities faced by women navigating systems of patriarchy, family obligation, and...

Gent, Belgium born filmmaker Felix van Groeningen has steadily offered cinema that explores intimate relationship dramas, family sagas, addiction narratives, and coming-of-age stories, and it all began back in 2004 with Steve + Sky. With an output that includes The...

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard Adaptation “My name is Fatima,” is one of the constant refrains utilized in Fatima Daas’ celebrated first novel The Last One (2020), a fragmented piece of auto-fiction which parallels the author’s...

At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, we got to chat with actor Théodore Pellerin, one of the most quietly adventurous thesps ping-ponging between films by establihsed auteurs and as witnessed last year emerging filmmakers such as Alex Russell (Lurker) and...

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years-old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical...

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and the uncomfortable stillness of contemporary existence, one of the most assured feature debuts to emerge from this year’s Directors’ Fortnight was Low Expectations. What Norwegian filmmaker Eivind Landsvik gets right is...

One of the discoveries of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was the Un Certain Regard selected (should have been in competition for the Palme) Everytime, the latest feature from Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner would go onto win Un Certain Regard Prize. Best...

Following the Grand Prix–winning Close, Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont returned to the Cannes competition with a film that explores how war reshapes identity, intimacy, and the very idea of courage. In Coward, set during World War I, Dhont uses the...

A film project we’ve been tracking when the Critics’ Week had launched her short Lili Alone, and then invited her feature debut to Next Step workshop, with her deeply moving A Girl Unknown (La Deuxième fille), Chinese filmmaker Zou Jing...