Jafar Panahi wins the Palme d’Or for It Was Just an Accident

Jafar Panahi wins the Palme d’Or for It Was Just an Accident

CANNES 2025: The Grand Prix has gone to Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, and other accolades to The Secret Agent, Mascha Schilinski, Oliver Laxe, Nadia Melliti, the Dardenne brothers and Bi Gan  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Awards

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo triumphs in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo triumphs in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard

CANNES 2025: Chilean director Diego Céspedes’ film has come out on top; other prizes went to Simón Mesa Soto, Arab and Tarzan Nasser, Cleo Diáran, Frank Dillane and Harry Lighton  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard/Awards

Spain outlines a €1.7 billion investment plan for the audiovisual industry

Spain outlines a €1.7 billion investment plan for the audiovisual industry

CANNES 2025: The country has presented bold new financing tools at the Marché du Film in order to boost local productions and attract global investment  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Tarzan Nasser • Director of Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Interview: Tarzan Nasser • Director of Once Upon a Time in Gaza

"Is the hero the one who gets the credit — or the one who endures and adapts to inhuman conditions?"

CANNES 2025: The Palestinian filmmaker, director of the film alongside with brother Arab, discusses their story of survival, politics and filmmaking set in the Gaza that existed a few years ago  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

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Industry Reports

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

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Produce – Co-Produce... - Spain outlines a €1.7 billion investment plan for the audiovisual industry - 24/05/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 24/05/2025
Spain outlines a €1.7 billion investment plan for the audiovisual industry
CANNES 2025: The country has presented bold new financing tools at the Marché du Film in order to boost local productions and attract global investment

Green Industry Initiatives and Sustainability - The Eco Hub presents over forty green initiatives at the Marché du Film - 23/05/2025

Green Industry Initiatives and Sustainability – 23/05/2025
The Eco Hub presents over forty green initiatives at the Marché du Film
CANNES 2025: The industry event has spotlighted green tips, tools, trends and training initiatives

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

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

Prïncia Car • Director of The Girls We Want

Interview: Prïncia Car • Director of The Girls We Want

"When women are together, a kind of sisterhood emerges — one that offers more freedom than masculinity’s frameworks"

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker discusses her first feature, as well as directing an ensemble made of non-professional actors and the connection between gender and resilience  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors' Fortnight

Francesco Sossai • Director of The Last One for the Road

Interview: Francesco Sossai • Director of The Last One for the Road

“I wanted to experience another adventurous night by making this film”

CANNES 2025: The Italian director discusses his new movie, through which he raises a glass to the men who drink  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Déni Oumar Pitsaev • Director of Imago

Interview: Déni Oumar Pitsaev • Director of Imago

“The most Chechen aspect of the film is the sense of resilience – it’s about facing hardship without losing your humanity”

CANNES 2025: The director discusses the long journey he embarked upon to make his documentary, exploring identity, family, resilience and Chechen culture  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

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Co-Production Podcast

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

Simón Mesa Soto • Director of A Poet

Interview: Simón Mesa Soto • Director of A Poet

“This film shows the worst version of myself in 20 years’ time”

CANNES 2025: The Colombian director delves into the artistic vocation and its inherent misfortunes  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Cédric Klapisch • Director of Colours of Time

Interview: Cédric Klapisch • Director of Colours of Time

"When we invent a story, we try to go where no one has gone before, which is the opposite of what AI does, which feeds on what has already been done"

CANNES 2025: The French director talks to us about his generous and accessible film, a family story that questions our relationship with progress and modernity  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Out of Competition

Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

Interview: Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

"I asked myself why, in Egyptian cinema, we don't have any films about non-Egyptians characters"

CANNES 2025: The Egyptian filmmaker talked to us about the origins of his debut feature, centred on an African migrant in Cairo  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

Interview: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

"Babies added a documentary element to the shots, a permanent unknown"

CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmakers talk about their new film, in which they change the narrative paradigm by daring to tell a choral story  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

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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

Saeed Roustaee • Director of Woman and Child

Interview: Saeed Roustaee • Director of Woman and Child

"People haven't yet learned to be honest"

CANNES 2025: The Iranian filmmaker deciphers his multi-faceted film centred on a broken woman who opens her eyes, picks herself up and becomes a driving force for change  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: Young Mothers

Review: Young Mothers

CANNES 2025: Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne combine their cinema in the plural, always in touch with reality, its determinisms and its flashes of light  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Alex Lutz • Director of Connemara

Interview: Alex Lutz • Director of Connemara

"Beyond their opposing social backgrounds, what stands in Hélène's and Christophe's way is perhaps above all a question of timing"

CANNES 2025: The French director and actor gives details about his fourth feature film, a social melodrama about the opposing spirits of two lovers  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

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Reviews

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

Sentimental Value - by Joachim Trier

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

The Little Sister - by Hafsia Herzi

The Little Sister
by Hafsia Herzi
CANNES 2025: Hafsia Herzi directs with tenderness and energy the romantic journey of a young woman searching for new sensations but subjected to voluntary servitude

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

Sound of Falling - by Mascha Schilinski

Sound of Falling
by Mascha Schilinski
CANNES 2025: With her second feature, German director Mascha Schilinski broadens the possibilities of period filmmaking

Sirât - by Oliver Laxe

Sirât
by Oliver Laxe
CANNES 2025: Óliver Laxe launches a very high intensity artistic bomb, deeply immersed in the initiatory desert journey of a stupefying blended family

Young Mothers - by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Young Mothers
by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
CANNES 2025: Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne combine their cinema in the plural, always in touch with reality, its determinisms and its flashes of light

Resurrection - by Bi Gan

Resurrection
by Bi Gan
CANNES 2025: Bi Gan’s spectacular dream-fugue aims to resurrect the history of 20th-century cinema, one era at a time

The CNC stresses the success of its Aide aux cinémas du monde initiative at Cannes

The CNC stresses the success of its Aide aux cinémas du monde initiative at Cannes

CANNES 2025: A presentation of a selection of case studies showcased the efficacy and wide reach of the French grant  

23/05 | Cannes 2025

Hlynur Pálmason • Director of The Love That Remains

Interview: Hlynur Pálmason • Director of The Love That Remains

“There’s a lot of beauty, and you really need to take care of it – it’s so easy to take things for granted”

CANNES 2025: The Icelandic director talks about his, in a way, very strange creative process  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

Antony Cordier • Director of The Party's Over!

Interview: Antony Cordier • Director of The Party's Over!

“I recognised myself in the main character, in his situation, his reactions, his complexes and his problems”

CANNES 2025: The French director uses humour to talk about prejudices and privileges based on social classes in his latest satire  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Director's Fortnight

Interviews

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers
CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmakers talk about their new film, in which they change the narrative paradigm by daring to tell a choral story

Tarik Saleh • Director of Eagles of the Republic

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

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

Review: Dandelion's Odyssey

Review: Dandelion's Odyssey

CANNES 2025: Momoko Seto’s film is a visually stunning but slow-paced animation about four dandelion seeds, which favours atmosphere over narrative  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Review: The Girls We Want

Review: The Girls We Want

CANNES 2025: Prïncia Car’s debut feature is an ambitious but muddled coming-of-age tale  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Kirill Serebrennikov • Director of The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

Interview: Kirill Serebrennikov • Director of The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

"I wanted to get a grasp of the collective system called Mengele – the people who helped him, protected him, funded him, hid him"

CANNES 2025: The Russian director in exile elaborates on his motivation to dissect a Nazi mind on screen and reveals behind-the-scenes production details  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

It Was Just an Accident - by Jafar Panahi

It Was Just an Accident
by Jafar Panahi
Cannes 2025 - Competition
Palme d’or

Sentimental Value - by Joachim Trier

Sentimental Value
by Joachim Trier
Cannes 2025 - Competition
Grand Prix

The Little Sister - by Hafsia Herzi

The Little Sister
by Hafsia Herzi
Cannes 2025 - Competition
Best performance by an actress

The Secret Agent - by Kleber Mendonça Filho

The Secret Agent
by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cannes 2025 - Competition
Best Director and Best performance by an actor

Sirât - by Oliver Laxe

Sirât
by Oliver Laxe
Cannes 2025 - Competition
Jury Prize

Sound of Falling - by Mascha Schilinski

Sound of Falling
by Mascha Schilinski
Cannes 2025 - Competition
Jury Prize

Young Mothers - by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

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

Resurrection - by Bi Gan

Resurrection
by Bi Gan
Cannes 2025 - Competition
Special Prize

Review: Caravan

Review: Caravan

CANNES 2025: A Czech mother and her son with Down syndrome journey through Italy in Zuzana Kirchnerová’s road movie about fatigue, love and human connections  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Imago receives the Golden Eye in Cannes

Imago receives the Golden Eye in Cannes

CANNES 2025: Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s film takes the crown for Best Documentary screened this year on the Croisette; Special Mention for The Six Billion Dollar Man  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Awards

First Summer triumphs in Cannes' La Cinef Selection

First Summer triumphs in Cannes' La Cinef Selection

CANNES 2025: South Korea's Heo Gayoung wins the first prize and China's Qu Zhizheng wins the second prize ; Japan's Miki Tanaka and Estonia's Natalia Mirzoyan also in the awards list  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Awards

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Reviews

My Father's Shadow - by Akinola Davies

My Father's Shadow
by Akinola Davies
CANNES 2025: Akinola Davies Jr impresses with this tale of two brothers reuniting with their estranged father for one day in Lagos, against the backdrop of the country’s 1993 election

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - by Diego Céspedes

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
by Diego Céspedes
CANNES 2025: The desert puts on its gala clothes in Diego Céspedes' first feature, a queer film in which desire, love and death intertwine in a baroque spectacle tinged with a western atmosphere

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

Once Upon a Time in Gaza - by Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser

Once Upon a Time in Gaza
by Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser
CANNES 2025: In their humanistic, precise and relaxed style, brothers Arab and Tarzan Nasser put together the true and the false, reality and fiction, genre cinema and geo-political x-ray

I Only Rest In The Storm - by Pedro Pinho

I Only Rest In The Storm
by Pedro Pinho
CANNES 2025: Portuguese auteur Pedro Pinho crafts an epic chronicle of an expat NGO worker discovering himself in Guinea-Bissau

Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... – 24/05/2025

Spain outlines a €1.7 billion investment plan for the audiovisual industry

CANNES 2025: The country has presented bold new financing tools at the Marché du Film in order to boost local productions and attract global investment

Green Industry Initiatives and Sustainability – 23/05/2025

The Eco Hub presents over forty green initiatives at the Marché du Film

CANNES 2025: The industry event has spotlighted green tips, tools, trends and training initiatives

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

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