Alexe Poukine • Director of Kika

Interview: Alexe Poukine • Director of Kika

"In life, you can think you’re in a romantic comedy but then suddenly find yourself in a social drama, which you didn’t see coming"

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  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Review: Wild Foxes

Review: Wild Foxes

CANNES 2025: Valéry Carnoy delivers a sensitive, embodied first feature, in the breath of its hero, who for the duration of an intense interlude will question the rest of his story  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: I Only Rest in the Storm

Review: I Only Rest in the Storm

CANNES 2025: Portuguese auteur Pedro Pinho crafts an epic chronicle of an expat NGO worker discovering himself in Guinea-Bissau  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Renoir

Review: Renoir

CANNES 2025: Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa weaves an infinitely delicate work on childhood’s look at the tortured world of adults  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

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Industry Reports

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - Women talk reshaping genre film at the Marché du Film - 15/05/2025

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – 15/05/2025
Women talk reshaping genre film at the Marché du Film
CANNES 2025: At an event run in collaboration with Yes She Cannes, five women shared how they’re remoulding the genre landscape using radical creativity

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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

Produce – Co-Produce... - EAVE’s inclusive co-production roadmap debuts at the Marché du Film - 17/05/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 17/05/2025
EAVE’s inclusive co-production roadmap debuts at the Marché du Film
CANNES 2025: The new report turns co-production into a conscious practice, offering producers real tools for building equitable, respectful and enduring creative partnerships

New Media - Auschwitz Memorial announced as a certified virtual film location at Cannes Next - 17/05/2025

New Media – 17/05/2025
Auschwitz Memorial announced as a certified virtual film location at Cannes Next
CANNES 2025: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation has launched Picture from Auschwitz, a virtual filmmaking project preserving authenticity, history and truth

New Media - Yannick Bossenmeyer • Co-CEO, Blockframes - 17/05/2025

New Media – 17/05/2025
Yannick Bossenmeyer • Co-CEO, Blockframes
CANNES 2025: The co-CEO delves into the intricacies of AI Magic Import, a groundbreaking tool automating film revenue waterfalls

Produce – Co-Produce... - The European Parliament urged to safeguard Creative Europe and its MEDIA support - 16/05/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 16/05/2025
The European Parliament urged to safeguard Creative Europe and its MEDIA support
CANNES 2025: Political and creative leaders have been at the Marché du Film to debate the role of culture in democracy and defence as talks begin on the next seven-year budget

Produce – Co-Produce... - Kristele Pudane • Producer, Sunday Rebel Films - 16/05/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 16/05/2025
Kristele Pudane • Producer, Sunday Rebel Films
We sat down with Latvia’s Producer on the Move, who spoke about her country’s film scene, her new projects and her work on co-productions

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - Industry leaders explore the shifting power dynamics in genre filmmaking at Cannes - 15/05/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 15/05/2025
Industry leaders explore the shifting power dynamics in genre filmmaking at Cannes
CANNES 2025: A panel examined audience behaviour, marketing strategies and the data-driven forces transforming how genre films are made, marketed and consumed

Review: Love Letters

Review: Love Letters

CANNES 2025: Ella Rumpf and Monia Chokri shine as the pioneers of medically assisted procreation in Alice Douard's debut feature, a sensitive novel about the intimacy of a couple and motherhood  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

The announcements made at Cannes' Marché du Film

The announcements made at Cannes' Marché du Film

CANNES 2025: An overview of acquisitions, sales, new films and more unveiled at the Cannes market, taking place from 14-22 May  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

EAVE’s inclusive co-production roadmap debuts at the Marché du Film

EAVE’s inclusive co-production roadmap debuts at the Marché du Film

CANNES 2025: The new report turns co-production into a conscious practice, offering producers real tools for building equitable, respectful and enduring creative partnerships  

17/05 | 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: A Useful Ghost

Review: A Useful Ghost

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

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Review: The Little Sister

Review: The Little Sister

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  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: A Pale View of Hills

Review: A Pale View of Hills

CANNES 2025: Japanese director Kei Ishikawa takes on a subtle, mysterious novel by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, and mostly succeeds in translating it to cinema  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Auschwitz Memorial announced as a certified virtual film location at Cannes Next

Auschwitz Memorial announced as a certified virtual film location at Cannes Next

CANNES 2025: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation has launched Picture from Auschwitz, a virtual filmmaking project preserving authenticity, history and truth  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

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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

Spot the Composer explores music’s role in cinema

Spot the Composer explores music’s role in cinema

CANNES 2025: The Marché du Film panel uncovered the emotional, logistical and collaborative magic behind cinematic music-making  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Yannick Bossenmeyer • Co-CEO, Blockframes

Interview: Yannick Bossenmeyer • Co-CEO, Blockframes

“AI Magic Import is a small revolution and will save producers a huge amount of time in film revenue management”

CANNES 2025: The co-CEO delves into the intricacies of AI Magic Import, a groundbreaking tool automating film revenue waterfalls  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Laura Wandel • Director of Adam’s Sake

Interview: Laura Wandel • Director of Adam’s Sake

"The question of empathy, care and treatment is at the heart of the film"

CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmaker talks to us about her breathless, immersive portrait of a paediatric nurse who reaches the limits of her practice  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Reviews

Renoir - by Chie Hayakawa

Renoir
by Chie Hayakawa
CANNES 2025: Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa weaves an infinitely delicate work on childhood’s look at the tortured world of adults

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

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

Case 137 - by Dominik Moll

Case 137
by Dominik Moll
CANNES 2025: Dominik Moll takes on France’s dirty secrets – and its famed “almost revolution” – ending up with something uncomfortably universal

Two Prosecutors - by Sergei Loznitsa

Two Prosecutors
by Sergei Loznitsa
CANNES 2025: Sergei Loznitsa returns to fiction with a relentless, masterfully staged tale of communist justice at the height of Stalinist terror

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

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

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

Review: Kika

Review: Kika

CANNES 2025: In her first fiction feature, Alexe Poukine paints the tragicomic portrait of a young woman who can’t stop for fear of falling  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Review: Baise-en-ville

Review: Baise-en-ville

CANNES 2025: Through the prism of the passage to adulthood, Martin Jauvat continues his tenderly humorous wanderings and his x-ray of life in the Paris suburbs  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Julia Kowalski • Director of Her Will Be Done

Interview: Julia Kowalski • Director of Her Will Be Done

“This is a witch film”

CANNES 2025: The French director talks to us about the dark magic in her film, religion and her Polish roots  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

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Interviews

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

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

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

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

Yannick Bossenmeyer • Co-CEO, Blockframes

Yannick Bossenmeyer • Co-CEO, Blockframes
CANNES 2025: The co-CEO delves into the intricacies of AI Magic Import, a groundbreaking tool automating film revenue waterfalls

Julia Kowalski • Director of Her Will Be Done

Julia Kowalski • Director of Her Will Be Done
CANNES 2025: The French director talks to us about the dark magic in her film, religion and her Polish roots

Kristele Pudane • Producer, Sunday Rebel Films

Kristele Pudane • Producer, Sunday Rebel Films
We sat down with Latvia’s Producer on the Move, who spoke about her country’s film scene, her new projects and her work on co-productions

Diego Céspedes • Director of The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

Diego Céspedes • Director of The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
CANNES 2025: The young Chilean filmmaker broaches issues such as dissident parenting, the upheaval caused by AIDS and LGBTI+ discrimination

Review: Amrum

Review: Amrum

CANNES 2025: Fatih Akin’s latest is an endearing coming-of-age tale interwoven with the death throes of the Nazi regime, filtered through the eyes of a child on the cusp of adolescence  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

In 2024, Spanish cinema attracted almost 14 million viewers in Spain

In 2024, Spanish cinema attracted almost 14 million viewers in Spain

A gross of 85.6 million euros, according to the Spanish Ministry of Culture, confirms that audiences are increasingly choosing domestic productions  

16/05 | Box Office | Spain

Review: The Great Arch

Review: The Great Arch

CANNES 2025: An outstanding screenwriter, Stéphane Demoustier signs an intelligently accessible film, bringing to light the unique career of a forgotten creator  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Renoir - by Chie Hayakawa

Renoir
by Chie Hayakawa
Cannes 2025 - Competition

The Little Sister - by Hafsia Herzi

The Little Sister
by Hafsia Herzi
Cannes 2025 - Competition

A Useful Ghost - by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

A Useful Ghost
by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Cannes 2025 - Critics’ Week

Love Letters - by Alice Douard

Love Letters
by Alice Douard
Cannes 2025 - Critics’ Week

Sirât - by Oliver Laxe

Sirât
by Oliver Laxe
Cannes 2025 - Competition

Urchin - by Harris Dickinson

Urchin
by Harris Dickinson
Cannes 2025 - Un Certain Regard

A Magnificient Life - by Sylvain Chomet

A Magnificient Life
by Sylvain Chomet
Cannes 2025 - Special Screenings

The Phoenician Scheme - by Wes Anderson

The Phoenician Scheme
by Wes Anderson
Cannes 2025 - Competition

Review: Dalloway

Review: Dalloway

CANNES 2025: Yann Gozlan’s AI thriller might have just ruined the very idea of the artist’s residency  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Midnight Screenings

Review: Her Will Be Done

Review: Her Will Be Done

CANNES 2025: Julia Kowalski plays a wicked game in a highly stylised feminist film, maliciously blending documentary realism and fantastic derangement  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

The European Parliament urged to safeguard Creative Europe and its MEDIA support

The European Parliament urged to safeguard Creative Europe and its MEDIA support

CANNES 2025: Political and creative leaders have been at the Marché du Film to debate the role of culture in democracy and defence as talks begin on the next seven-year budget  

16/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

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Reviews

Wild Foxes - by Valéry Carnoy

Wild Foxes
by Valéry Carnoy
CANNES 2025: Valéry Carnoy delivers a sensitive, embodied first feature, in the breath of its hero, who for the duration of an intense interlude will question the rest of his story

The Great Arch - by Stéphane Demoustier

The Great Arch
by Stéphane Demoustier
CANNES 2025: An outstanding screenwriter, Stéphane Demoustier signs an intelligently accessible film, bringing to light the unique career of a forgotten creator

Amrum - by Fatih Akin

Amrum
by Fatih Akin
CANNES 2025: Fatih Akin’s latest is an endearing coming-of-age tale interwoven with the death throes of the Nazi regime, filtered through the eyes of a child on the cusp of adolescence

Kika - by Alexe Poukine

Kika
by Alexe Poukine
CANNES 2025: In her first fiction feature, Alexe Poukine paints the tragicomic portrait of a young woman who can’t stop for fear of falling

Her Will Be Done - by Julia Kowalski

Her Will Be Done
by Julia Kowalski
CANNES 2025: Julia Kowalski plays a wicked game in a highly stylised feminist film, maliciously blending documentary realism and fantastic derangement

Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... – 17/05/2025

EAVE’s inclusive co-production roadmap debuts at the Marché du Film

CANNES 2025: The new report turns co-production into a conscious practice, offering producers real tools for building equitable, respectful and enduring creative partnerships

New Media – 17/05/2025

Auschwitz Memorial announced as a certified virtual film location at Cannes Next

CANNES 2025: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation has launched Picture from Auschwitz, a virtual filmmaking project preserving authenticity, history and truth

New Media – 17/05/2025

Yannick Bossenmeyer • Co-CEO, Blockframes

CANNES 2025: The co-CEO delves into the intricacies of AI Magic Import, a groundbreaking tool automating film revenue waterfalls

Produce – Co-Produce... – 16/05/2025

The European Parliament urged to safeguard Creative Europe and its MEDIA support

CANNES 2025: Political and creative leaders have been at the Marché du Film to debate the role of culture in democracy and defence as talks begin on the next seven-year budget

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