Cannes 2025 - The Film Verdict

Two Prosecutors

Aug 20, 2025 | Cannes 2025, Festivals, Sarajevo 2025

Sergei Loznitsa’s masterfully controlled, mordantly absurd drama on the fate of a just idealist in Stalin’s USSR is a timely warning on the workings of state terror.

Imago

Aug 18, 2025 | Cannes 2025, Festivals, Sarajevo 2025

In the gorgeously subtle and poetic doc ‘Imago’, Déni Oumar Pitsaev visits Pankisi to explore what kind of home it can be for the dreams of Chechnya’s displaced.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

May 27, 2025 | Cannes 2025, Festivals

Sepideh Farsi’s documentary ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’ is a devastating yet profoundly human portrait of photojournalist Fatma Hassona and her life under siege in Gaza.

Young Mothers

May 26, 2025 | Festivals, Cannes 2025

The Dardenne brothers tell another understated story of slices of female life with “Young Mothers”, winner of the Best Screenplay award in Cannes.

Asian Restorations on the Rise at Cannes

May 26, 2025 | Cannes 2025, Featured, Festivals

Some of the best discoveries of Asian cinema at Cannes this year took place in the Classics programme, with overlooked auteurs from marginal countries receiving belated acclaim.

Cannes 2025: The Verdict

May 26, 2025 | Featured, Cannes 2025, Festivals

The diversity of art was a running theme at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, where an Iranian filmmaker won the Palme d’Or and Japan emerged strong.

Eagles of the Republic

May 25, 2025 | Cannes 2025, Festivals

Director Tarik Saleh closes his Cairo trilogy with ‘Eagles of the Republic’, a daring political fantasy thriller set in the Egyptian movie industry, starring a magnetic Fares Fares.

78th Cannes Film Festival 2025: The Awards

May 24, 2025 | Cannes 2025, Featured, Festivals

Outspoken Iranian director Jafar Panahi takes the Palme d’Or with his daring ‘It Was Just an Accident’.

Orwell: 2+2=5

May 24, 2025 | Featured, Cannes 2025, Festivals

Never has the world felt closer to the threats of rising fascism described by George Orwell than now, as filmmaker Raoul Peck (‘I Am Not your Negro’) lucidly shows in his new documentary ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’.

CineVerdict: Romería

May 23, 2025 | Cannes 2025, Cine Verdict, Featured, Festivals

En la competencia por la Palma de Oro, el 3er. largometraje de la cineasta española Carla Simón, Romería, ofrece un apasionante drama familiar que gira en torno a una joven en su búsqueda por la verdad sobre la muerte prematura de su padre.