The Ethics of Looking Away
Sandra Wollner’s Everytime and the uneasy intimacy of a cinema that refuses certainty There are films that invite interpretation, and then there are films…
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Cannes 2026
The Weight of a Brief Encounter
Federico Luis and the fragile intensity of rivalry distilled into a short film that refuses to behave like one There are short films that…
The Courage of Beginning: Ben’Imana and the Cinema of First Times
Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s debut in Cannes, a film that resists definition and finds its strength in the fragile space between emergence and recognition. There are…
The Silent Fear of Those Who Learn Too Early to Hide
With Coward, Lukas Dhont returns to Cannes with a devastating film about male vulnerability, adolescence and the emotional violence that emerges when a body…
The Exact Instant a Life Changes Direction
With Sudden, Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns to Cannes with a film shaped by silences, encounters and minimal decisions, where what truly matters unfolds in what…
The Red That Remembers: Didier Zakine and the material memory of Cannes, where cinema leaves behind more than images
There is something about the red of the Croisette that refuses to fully vanish. Even when it is rolled up, stored away, or replaced,…
The Men Who No Longer Know How to Belong to the World
With The Dreamed Adventure, Valeska Grisebach returns to cinema with a quiet and profoundly physical film about masculinity, labour and the emotional fragility of…
The Bodies Europe No Longer Wants to See
With Notre Salut, Emmanuel Marre films the human periphery of Europe through a physical and emotional intimacy that transforms desire, precarity and migration into…
Europe After the Ruins
With Fatherland, Paweł Pawlikowski returns to Cannes to portray a Germany fractured by the aftermath of war, transforming the intimate journey between Thomas Mann…
The Monster Living Inside the State
With Minotaur, Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to Cannes after nearly a decade with a devastating film about power, war and the slow moral corruption of…