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358 articles available in total starting from 24/05/2002. Last article published on 05/12/2025.

REPORT: Next Step 2025 @ Cannes’ Critics’ Week

REPORT: Next Step 2025 @ Cannes’ Critics’ Week

Ten young filmmakers will take part in the programme steered by Cannes’ Critics’ Week, supporting directors making the leap to feature films  

05/12 | Industry | Market | France

Review: Left-Handed Girl

Review: Left-Handed Girl

Shih-Ching Tsou's engrossing and boisterous solo debut is an enchanting and colourful ride through today’s Taipei, as seen through the eyes of multiple generations  

13/10 | Zurich 2025

REPORT: Next Step II 2025 @ Cannes Critics’ Week

REPORT: Next Step II 2025 @ Cannes Critics’ Week

The line-up includes sophomore-feature projects by Cristèle Alves Meira, Michael Borodin, Graham Foy, Felipe Gálvez and Mikko Myllylahti  

08/10 | France

Momoko Seto • Director of Dandelion’s Odyssey

Interview: Momoko Seto • Director of Dandelion’s Odyssey

“When you are watching this film, you are no longer human”

Four surprising characters go on a real odyssey in this ambitious, dialogue-free movie that asks the audience to change their perspective  

19/06 | Annecy 2025

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

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: 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

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

Review: Sleepless City

Review: Sleepless City

CANNES 2025: Guillermo Galoe’s vibrant social-realist drama sees a young Roma teenager from Madrid’s exurban slums struggling to leave that world behind  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

Interview: Guillermo Galoe • Director of Sleepless City

“In La Cañada, I felt a profound wound in people”

CANNES 2025: The Spanish director gives us the low-down on his film, shot in a slum on the outskirts of Madrid, in which a teenager stares out at a broken world  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

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