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Grandma Scamma: Margolin Steals a Win with Squibb Although there’s a prodigious sub-genre of kooky comedies featuring elderly resilient women (though more often in European cinema), few of them steer clear of screwball conceits which often seem cheap or cheesy....

The passing of the torch was confirmed around Cannes, and rather than what might have been an August shoot, Les Films de Pierre producer Marie-Ange Luciani and filmmaker Robin Campillo are moving full steam ahead on Enzo – the project...

Goodbye, First Love: Atef Explores Pangs of Passion Amidst Detached Reunification For her sixth feature film, Germany’s Emily Atef returns to themes of circumstance keeping lovers (and loved ones) apart with the languorously titled Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything...

A Place in the Sun: Sy’s Fascinating Debut on Ruinous Social Obligations It takes a village…to put you in your place, or so it would seem in French-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s commanding debut, Banel & Adama. A striking tale on...

Earlier today, Cineuropa’s Fabien Lemercier revealed an alluring-sounding project that we’ll be keeping a close eye on. Heading into production this week, Armenia-born, Lebanese documentary filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan has lassoed Camille Cottin and Zar Amir Ebrahimi for a complex, perhaps...

Beyond Harmony Korine, the Florida film community has produced some solid American indie cinema. Last year, we witnessed this through a family portrait that captured the struggles of staying together as gentrification threatened to further bulldoze their community. Winner of...

The Un Certain Regard jury of five in Xavier Dolan, Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, and Todd McCarthy offered a total of seven awards/mentions this year and as per our tradition, we were front row at the ceremony...

The jury of Greta Gerwig, filmmakers J. A. Bayona, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nadine Labaki, acting folks Eva Green, Omar Sy, Lily Gladstone and Pierfrancesco Favino with the all-in-one Ebru Ceylan chose Sean Baker’s Anora as the film worthy of the Palme...

Not to be confused with Louise Courvoisier’s excellent feature debut which just received its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, The Mother Of All Lies helmer Asmae El Moudir might indeed be making...

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. Though Cannes might be over, we still have unpublished...