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699 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/09/2026.

Review: Donkey Princess

Review: Donkey Princess

The latest film by the Chilean directorial duo composed of Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña - who are known for their stop-motion universe - also features flesh and blood actors for the first time  

07/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Aung Phyoe • Director of Fruit Gathering

Interview: Aung Phyoe • Director of Fruit Gathering

“Love is never a binary thing, a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’”

The director discusses a story of longing, ambiguity and unequal privilege, and how he merged social realism with memory, confinement and imagined escape  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Fruit Gathering

Review: Fruit Gathering

Aung Phyoe’s feature debut turns the ambiguous intimacy between two seamstresses into a delicate study of desire, labour and social repression in contemporary Myanmar  

10/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

Interview: Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

“This film has become a highly political appeal for individual freedom”

The Czech director chatted with us about turning queer identity, drag culture and rural family comedy into mainstream cinema, shaped by “radical positivity” and “radical hope”  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: Chica Checa

Review: Chica Checa

In Šimon Holý’s warm, intergenerational dramedy, a son’s hidden drag persona becomes the catalyst for a widowed mother’s late-life reawakening and hard-won acceptance  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Cristian Mungiu picks up a second Palme d’Or at Cannes with Fjörd

Cristian Mungiu picks up a second Palme d’Or at Cannes with Fjörd

CANNES 2026: The Grand Prix has gone to Minotaur, while other trophies were awarded to Pawel Pawlikowski, duo Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, Valeska Grisebach, Emmanuel Marre, and four performers  

23/05 | Cannes 2026 | Awards

Valeska Grisebach • Director of The Dreamed Adventure

Interview: Valeska Grisebach • Director of The Dreamed Adventure

"It was important to me that my lead character owned her gaze"

CANNES 2026: The German filmmaker talks about the film’s border setting, working with non-actors, and creating a refreshingly rare female protagonist  

23/05 | Cannes 2026 | Competition

Review: The Dreamed Adventure

Review: The Dreamed Adventure

CANNES 2026: German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach’s long-awaited return is a realist film noir set in the border zone between Bulgaria and Turkey, enacted by a strong non-professional cast  

23/05 | Cannes 2026 | Competition

Review: The Birthday Party

Review: The Birthday Party

CANNES 2026: Léa Mysius directs a sharp, tense and stripped back thriller telling a dark, modern tale about family and the return of the murky past in a nigh-on huis clos context  

22/05 | Cannes 2026 | Competition

Léa Mysius • Director of The Birthday Party

Interview: Léa Mysius • Director of The Birthday Party

"We never really know the people we live with"

CANNES 2026: The filmmaker shares the genesis of her adaptation of Laurent Mauvignier’s novel and explains her approach towards fear and violence which blends drama and thriller codes  

22/05 | Cannes 2026 | Competition

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