Review: Heads or Tails?

Review: Heads or Tails?

CANNES 2025: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppi’s new film is an entertaining and insolent anti-western about the arrival of Buffalo Bill’s show in Italy and the flight of two lovers on the run  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Tarik Saleh • Director of Eagles of the Republic

Interview: Tarik Saleh • Director of Eagles of the Republic

"Some people think my film is a satire, but it really isn’t, it’s an enormous system which no-one is putting a stop to"

CANNES 2025: The Swedish filmmaker of Egyptian origin unpicks his captivating film noir, which is the third chapter of his Cairo-based trilogy  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Anna Cazenave Cambet • Director of Love Me Tender

Interview: Anna Cazenave Cambet • Director of Love Me Tender

"I wanted a character combining incredible softness and sensitive vulnerability with righteousness and strength"

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker reflects on what drew her to adapt Constance Debré’s book and bring it to the big screen, with Vicky Krieps in the lead role  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Romería

Review: Romería

CANNES 2025: Golden Bear winner Carla Simón brings another beautifully crafted personal story, which captivates with its deceptive simplicity  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

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Industry Reports

New Media - AI takes centre stage once again at Cannes Next - 19/05/2025

New Media – 19/05/2025
AI takes centre stage once again at Cannes Next
CANNES 2025: The experts participating in the “Reimagining Production” panel explored how AI is revolutionising creativity, business models, workflows and legal frameworks

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A busy spring festival season awaits the European film industry. Cineuropa will continue to keep its readers up to date with the latest news and market insights, covering the buzziest events, including Cannes, Kraków, Karlovy Vary, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Annecy, Brussels, Munich and many others

New Media - The National Film School of Denmark probes the future of filmmaking at Cannes - 22/05/2025

New Media – 22/05/2025
The National Film School of Denmark probes the future of filmmaking at Cannes
CANNES 2025: The panel explored collaboration, education, storytelling gaps and the industry’s resistance to change when it comes to new technologies

Europe and the Rest of the World - Audiovisual cooperation between Europe and Latin America explored at the Marché du Film - 20/05/2025

Europe and the Rest of the World – 20/05/2025
Audiovisual cooperation between Europe and Latin America explored at the Marché du Film
CANNES 2025: The EULAC panel has spotlighted co-productions as a key element in building bridges between the two continents

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - The European Audiovisual Observatory presents Key Trends in the Film Sector - 20/05/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 20/05/2025
The European Audiovisual Observatory presents Key Trends in the Film Sector
CANNES 2025: At a panel, the Council of Europe’s research body discussed global cinema attendance trends, highlighting a 9% worldwide decline in 2024, but with Europe showing resilience

Market Trends - The Nostradamus Report serves as a wake-up call for the screen industries - 19/05/2025

Market Trends – 19/05/2025
The Nostradamus Report serves as a wake-up call for the screen industries
CANNES 2025: The Göteborg Film Festival’s latest industry foresight report argues that the future of cinema depends on structural adaptability and meaningful audience connection

Produce – Co-Produce... - Experts rethink public film funding at the Marché du Film - 19/05/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 19/05/2025
Experts rethink public film funding at the Marché du Film
CANNES 2025: As audience behaviours evolve, a panel presented by Film i Väst confronted the urgent need for public film agencies to adapt or risk irrelevance

Produce – Co-Produce... - UK-French VFX synergies explored at the Marché du Film - 18/05/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 18/05/2025
UK-French VFX synergies explored at the Marché du Film
CANNES 2025: Representatives of both countries discussed enhanced VFX tax incentives, burgeoning co-productions and cross-border collaboration

Review: The History of Sound

Review: The History of Sound

CANNES 2025: In Oliver Hermanus’s film, gentle voices echo through time, creating a poetic, musically rich tale of memory, love and loss  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Mara Prohaska Marković, Marko Grba Singh • Festival director and artistic director, Beldocs

Interview: Mara Prohaska Marković, Marko Grba Singh • Festival director and artistic director, Beldocs

“This year’s selection reflects our commitment to cinema as a form of resistance, reflection and awakening”

We sat down to talk to the executives of the Serbian festival about the 2025 edition, happening amidst extraordinary global and local circumstances  

22/05 | Beldocs 2025

The National Film School of Denmark probes the future of filmmaking at Cannes

The National Film School of Denmark probes the future of filmmaking at Cannes

CANNES 2025: The panel explored collaboration, education, storytelling gaps and the industry’s resistance to change when it comes to new technologies  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

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Episode 76: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark/Poland/Sweden) - 08/05/2025

08/05/2025
Episode 76: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark/Poland/Sweden)
The producers of the film by Magnus von Horn are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium) - 25/03/2025

25/03/2025
Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Maura Delpero are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 74: Crossing (Sweden/ Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia) - 20/03/2025

20/03/2025
Episode 74: Crossing (Sweden/ Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia)
The producers of the film by Levan Akin are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium) - 10/12/2024

10/12/2024
Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Gints Zilbalodis are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 72: Wishing on a Star (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia) - 28/11/2024

28/11/2024
Episode 72: Wishing on a Star (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia)
The producers of the film by Peter Kerekes are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 71: Superluna (Italy/Belgium) - 14/11/2024

14/11/2024
Episode 71: Superluna (Italy/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Federico Bondi are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 70: Robot Dreams (Spain/France) - 27/06/2024

27/06/2024
Episode 70: Robot Dreams (Spain/France)
The producers of the film by Pablo Berger are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 69: Black Tea (France/ Mauritania/ Luxembourg/ Taiwan/ Côte d'Ivoire) - 30/04/2024

30/04/2024
Episode 69: Black Tea (France/ Mauritania/ Luxembourg/ Taiwan/ Côte d'Ivoire)
The producers of the film by Abderrahmane Sissako are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

Review: Connemara

Review: Connemara

CANNES 2025: Alex Lutz tackles Nicolas Mathieu's landmark book, a melancholy love story set against a backdrop of social breakdown, starring Mélanie Thierry and Bastien Bouillon  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

Review: The Last One for the Road

Review: The Last One for the Road

CANNES 2025: Italian director Francesco Sossai morphs into Aki Kaurismäki, and delivers a loveable ode to drunken encounters and that first hungover cigarette  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Sentimental Value

Review: Sentimental Value

CANNES 2025: Joachim Trier comes close to going full Bergman in this touching family psychodrama but amps up the gentle humour  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Life is strange in the Cannes Short Film Competition

Life is strange in the Cannes Short Film Competition

CANNES 2025: The shorts vying for this year’s Palme d’Or seem to head down a more obtuse route than normal  

22/05 | Cannes 2025

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Cannes 2025 – Photogalleries - 13/05/2025

13/05/2025
Cannes 2025 – Photogalleries
The international film industry is gathering again on the Croisette for a packed edition of the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, unspooling from 13-24 May. Discover the festival highlights in our exclusive photo galleries

Berlinale 2025 – Photogalleries - 13/02/2025

13/02/2025
Berlinale 2025 – Photogalleries
The Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 75th edition, the first under the direction of Tricia Tuttle, from 13-23 February. Check out the festival highlights in our exclusive photogalleries

San Sebastian 2024 – Photogalleries - 23/09/2024

23/09/2024
San Sebastian 2024 – Photogalleries
The San Sebastián International Film Festival cements its position on the global festival circuit with its 72st edition, which is unspooling from 20-28 September. Check out our exclusive photo galleries

Venice 2024 – Photogalleries - 27/08/2024

27/08/2024
Venice 2024 – Photogalleries
After the media storm triggered by last year's SAG-AFTRA strike, the global film community is back on the Lido for the 81st Venice Film Festival, unspooling from 28 August-7 September. Discover the festival highlights and the international stars walking the red carpet in our exclusive photo galleries

Cannes 2024 – Photogalleries - 14/05/2024

14/05/2024
Cannes 2024 – Photogalleries
The international film industry is gathering again on the Croisette for a packed edition of the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, unspooling from 14-25 May. Discover the festival highlights in our exclusive photo galleries

Berlinale 2024 – Photogalleries - 15/02/2024

15/02/2024
Berlinale 2024 – Photogalleries
The Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 74th edition, the last under the direction of Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, from 15-25 February. Check out the festival highlights in our exclusive photogalleries

San Sebastián 2023 – Photogalleries - 25/09/2023

25/09/2023
San Sebastián 2023 – Photogalleries
The San Sebastián International Film Festival cements its position on the global festival circuit with its 71st edition, which is unspooling from 22-30 September. Check out our exclusive photo galleries

Venice 2023 – Photogalleries - 01/09/2023

01/09/2023
Venice 2023 – Photogalleries
After the media storm triggered by the SAG-AFTRA strike, the global film community is back on the Lido for the 80th Venice Film Festival, unspooling from 30 August-9 September. Discover the festival highlights and the international stars walking the red carpet in our exclusive photo galleries

Review: Mirrors No. 3

Review: Mirrors No. 3

CANNES 2025: Christian Petzold and actress Paula Beer continue their collaboration, this time finding a hall of mirrors in two women sharing their grief  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Love That Remains

Review: The Love That Remains

CANNES 2025: Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason’s new film proves he can invite you into his home and pull the rug from right under your feet  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

Review: Imago

Review: Imago

CANNES 2025: Combining personal reflection and sociopolitical undercurrents, Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s slow-burning documentary captures his emotional return to his origins  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Reviews

A Useful Ghost - by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

A Useful Ghost
by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
CANNES 2025: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke reveals his exceptional talent with a highly original, funny, subtle, inventive and intelligent first feature

A Private Life - by Rebecca Zlotowski

A Private Life
by Rebecca Zlotowski
CANNES 2025: Rebecca Zlotowski doesn't hold back and delivers a hectic, false-bottomed comedy that's all thrills and spills, toplined by Jodie Foster

Imago - by Déni Oumar Pitsaev

Imago
by Déni Oumar Pitsaev
CANNES 2025: Combining personal reflection and sociopolitical undercurrents, Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s slow-burning documentary captures his emotional return to his origins

Nino - by Pauline Loquès

Nino
by Pauline Loquès
CANNES 2025: Following the footsteps of a young man wandering around Paris in the throes of a revelation, Pauline Loquès paints a moving portrait of the modern urban world

It Was Just an Accident - by Jafar Panahi

It Was Just an Accident
by Jafar Panahi
CANNES 2025: A gripping tale of revenge and reckoning, Jafar Panahi’s latest drama lays bare the vicious cycle of violence under repression

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - by Kirill Serebrennikov

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
by Kirill Serebrennikov
CANNES 2025: Kirill Serebrennikov’s latest feature is a rich, dense, complex, absorbing and eventually unbiased portrait of a fascist in exile

Fuori - by Mario Martone

Fuori
by Mario Martone
CANNES 2025: Mario Martone’s film about writer Goliarda Sapienza breaks free from the classic biopic and makes use of the vibrant performances of Valeria Golino and Matilda De Angelis

A Poet - by Simón Mesa Soto

A Poet
by Simón Mesa Soto
CANNES 2025: Simón Mesa Soto paints a humorous and thoughtful portrait of a good-for-nothing poetry bum worth rooting for

Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

Interview: Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

"We wanted to make something that services us, our community and masculinity in general"

CANNES 2025: The British-Nigerian filmmaker discusses his first feature, a film that is set over the course of one day, in which he plays with the concept of time  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: A Private Life

Review: A Private Life

CANNES 2025: Rebecca Zlotowski doesn't hold back and delivers a hectic, false-bottomed comedy that's all thrills and spills, toplined by Jodie Foster  

22/05 | Cannes 2025 | Out of Competition

A Useful Ghost triumphs in the Cannes Critics’ Week

A Useful Ghost triumphs in the Cannes Critics’ Week

CANNES 2025: The feature debut by Thailand’s Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s has won the Grand Prize; other gongs have gone to Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s Imago and Canada’s Théodore Pellerin in Nino  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week/Awards

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Interviews

Hafsia Herzi • Director of The Little Sister

Hafsia Herzi • Director of The Little Sister
CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker talks about why and how she adapted the novel by Fatima Daas, and what personal elements she brought to the film

Chie Hayakawa • Director of Renoir

Chie Hayakawa • Director of Renoir
CANNES 2025: The Japanese director shares her thoughts about art, life and death, and describes how her movie parallels her own life journey

Óliver Laxe • Director of Sirât

Óliver Laxe • Director of Sirât
CANNES 2025: The Spanish filmmaker explains why his film was born to build a rite of passage for himself, and also invite the viewers to look inside themselves

Valéry Carnoy • Director of Wild Foxes

Valéry Carnoy • Director of Wild Foxes
CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmaker explores subjects such as the injunction to be virile and the relationship with violence in his first feature film

Alexe Poukine • Director of Kika

Alexe Poukine • Director of Kika
CANNES 2025: The filmmaker chatted with us about her first fiction feature film, a comic drama inspiring laughs and tears about a woman in love and grieving

Erige Sehiri • Director of Promised Sky

Erige Sehiri • Director of Promised Sky
CANNES 2025: The French-Tunisian filmmaker explains the intentions which fed into her second fiction feature film which revolves around three migrant women brought together by circumstance in Tunis

Laura Wandel • Director of Adam’s Sake

Laura Wandel • Director of Adam’s Sake
CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmaker talks to us about her breathless, immersive portrait of a paediatric nurse who reaches the limits of her practice

Robin Campillo • Director of Enzo

Robin Campillo • Director of Enzo
CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker talks about the genesis of Laurent Cantet's last project, a film about the enigma of adolescence

GoCritic! Review: Savages

GoCritic! Review: Savages

Claude Barras’ second feature tells a story of environmental precarity in Borneo’s rainforest, where family is the last line of defence against the expansion of the local palm oil plantation  

21/05 | GoCritic! | Anifilm Liberec 2025

Yintah and Bedrock win at the 22nd Millennium Docs Against Gravity

Yintah and Bedrock win at the 22nd Millennium Docs Against Gravity

The film by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano has emerged triumphant in the Main Competition, while Kinga Michalska’s title won the Polish Film Competition  

21/05 | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2025 | Awards

Stéphane Demoustier • Director of The Great Arch

Interview: Stéphane Demoustier • Director of The Great Arch

“He’s a mystery, very well-suited for a piece of cinema, I immediately thought”

CANNES 2025: The French director talks about creating a monument to the unknown Danish creator of Paris’ Great Arch of la Défense  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Romería - by Carla Simón

Romería
by Carla Simón
Cannes 2025 - Competition

A Private Life - by Rebecca Zlotowski

A Private Life
by Rebecca Zlotowski
Cannes 2025 - Out of Competition

The Last One for the Road - by Francesco Sossai

The Last One for the Road
by Francesco Sossai
Cannes 2025 - Un Certain Regard

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain - by Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
by Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
Cannes 2025 - Special Screenings

It Was Just an Accident - by Jafar Panahi

It Was Just an Accident
by Jafar Panahi
Cannes 2025 - Competition

Fuori - by Mario Martone

Fuori
by Mario Martone
Cannes 2025 - Competition
Italian release May 22

Resurrection - by Bi Gan

Resurrection
by Bi Gan
Cannes 2025 - Competition

Young Mothers - by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Young Mothers
by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Cannes 2025 - Competition

Asphalt, Everybody to Kenmure Street and Something Familiar win big at Cannes’ Docs-in-Progress Awards

Asphalt, Everybody to Kenmure Street and Something Familiar win big at Cannes’ Docs-in-Progress Awards

CANNES 2025: Selected from a diverse pool of showcases, the winning films underscore the power of documentary to confront war, celebrate activism and explore intimate personal stories  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film/Awards

ECAM Forum presents the projects for its second edition

ECAM Forum presents the projects for its second edition

From 10 to 13 June, filmmakers such as Mihai Mincan, Ion de Sosa, Francisca Alegría, Leire Apellaniz and Rai María will meet in Madrid to look for partners for their new works  

21/05 | Industry | Market | Spain

Hideo Kojima and Fatih Akin explore technology’s role in narrative art at Cannes Next

Hideo Kojima and Fatih Akin explore technology’s role in narrative art at Cannes Next

CANNES 2025: The Japanese video game visionary and the German filmmaker analysed how AI and technology are reshaping authorship, freedom and the structure of storytelling  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

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Reviews

The Love That Remains - by Hlynur Pálmason

The Love That Remains
by Hlynur Pálmason
CANNES 2025: Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason’s new film proves he can invite you into his home and pull the rug from right under your feet

Militantropos - by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi

Militantropos
by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi
CANNES 2025: The Ukrainian documentary by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi observes and investigates the psychological stakes of living in wartime

Eagles of the Republic - by Tarik Saleh

Eagles of the Republic
by Tarik Saleh
CANNES 2025: Tarik Saleh rounds off his Cairo trilogy with a delectable film noir about lies and truths, thrusting a big-screen star faced with some difficult decisions into a minefield

Alpha - by Julia Ducournau

Alpha
by Julia Ducournau
CANNES 2025: Titane’s Julia Ducournau returns with an exhausting, weird AIDS parable that’s somehow not weird enough

The Secret Agent - by Kleber Mendonça Filho

The Secret Agent
by Kleber Mendonça Filho
CANNES 2025: Kleber Mendonça Filho creates a playful, choral and sophisticated cinematic partition in dizzying narrative arpeggio, revealing the dark memory of Brazil under dictatorship

Industry Reports

New Media – 22/05/2025

The National Film School of Denmark probes the future of filmmaking at Cannes

CANNES 2025: The panel explored collaboration, education, storytelling gaps and the industry’s resistance to change when it comes to new technologies

Europe and the Rest of the World – 20/05/2025

Audiovisual cooperation between Europe and Latin America explored at the Marché du Film

CANNES 2025: The EULAC panel has spotlighted co-productions as a key element in building bridges between the two continents

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 20/05/2025

The European Audiovisual Observatory presents Key Trends in the Film Sector

CANNES 2025: At a panel, the Council of Europe’s research body discussed global cinema attendance trends, highlighting a 9% worldwide decline in 2024, but with Europe showing resilience

Market Trends – 19/05/2025

The Nostradamus Report serves as a wake-up call for the screen industries

CANNES 2025: The Göteborg Film Festival’s latest industry foresight report argues that the future of cinema depends on structural adaptability and meaningful audience connection

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