Two Prosecutors
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.
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
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
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
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
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
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
Outspoken Iranian director Jafar Panahi takes the Palme d’Or with his daring ‘It Was Just an Accident’.
Orwell: 2+2=5
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
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.
Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier makes a powerful return to the Cannes Competition with “Sentimental Value”, a meditation on art, family and depression with a distinctly Nordic flair.
Woman and Child
In Saeed Roustaee’s ‘Woman and Child’, a young widow loses control when her son dies, in a well-made, well-acted and unrestrained Iranian melodrama gauged primarily to local audience tastes.
It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi has never been more explicit in denouncing the torture political prisoners are subjected to in Iran, or the furious longing for revenge that haunts the state’s victims, than in ‘It Was Just an Accident’.
The Secret Agent
A dazzling if confusing thriller set in 1977 Brazil during the worst years of the dictatorship, ‘The Secret Agent’ finds actor Wagner Moura embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the corrupt police of Recife.
CineVerdict: Un poeta
Humor negro, ironía y desafío de los estereotipos cinematográficos hacen de ‘Un poeta’ una comedia para ser disfrutada.
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Kirill Serebrennikov’s muscular biopic ‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ about the elusive Nazi fugitive is a real-life horror story, sprawling at times but powered by strong performances and great visual swagger.
Love Letters
In 2013, the Taubira Law granting same-sex couples marriage equality and the right to adopt children, was signed into effect in France. However, where one bureaucratic injustice ended, another began as Alice Douard explores in her debut feature Love Letters. Just because the right to adopt was legal, didn’t mean it didn’t require a few...
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A Useful Ghost
In the middle of the Venn diagram of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Quentin Dupieux, and Charlie Kaufman, you might find Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke and his debut feature film A Useful Ghost. Marvellously inventive, what begins as an unlikely ghost story and tragic romance, evolves into an affecting look at what haunts Thailand’s national memories, and the dreams of...
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Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay returns to the big screen with the peculiar Cannes Competition entry ‘Die My Love’, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
The Great Arch
Stéphane Demoustier directs an elegant film about the dilemma of creators on a real-life project.
The Little Sister
A devout young Muslim woman struggles to reconcile faith with being lesbian in Hafsia Herzi’s ‘The Little Sister’, celebrating the LGBTQIA culture in Paris in its many aspects as it explores how religion and sexuality shape self-identity.
Behind the scenes of Cannes Classics
Since 2004, the Cannes Film Festival has actively devoted part of its programming to restored gems, via the Cannes Classics strand.