The Un Certain Regard section now have four new items and finally Kristen Stewart‘s The Chronology of Water finally did make the cut after what have been some nips and tucks to the final cut. This highly anticipated first time feature will play alongside the sophomore feature by Anna Cazenave Cambet. Vicky Krieps who won a prize in the section (Best Performance Prize for Corsage) and would end up being a jury member last year in that same section, Love Me Tender is a book to film project which also features another Un Certain Regard fave in filmmaker-actress Monia Chokri. Filmed last November, this follows Clémence, a married lawyer who decides to drop everything in order to write and to live out her homosexuality unimpeded. But this bothers her ex-husband who ensures she loses custody of her son. She embarks upon a lengthy battle to try to get him back, but will she be forced to renounce this maternal bond in order to thrive or survive? Antoine Reinhardt and Clotilde Courau also star.
From Colombia, a filmmaker who competed for the short film Palme d’Or on a remarkable two occasions and then saw his feature debut (Amparo) premiere at the Critics’ Week in 2021, Simón Mesa Soto shot a comedy at the top of 2025. Co-written with Juan Sarmiento G., Un Poeta sees Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a humble teenager, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days, but dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho returns to Cannes – his debut fiction feature was 2017’s The Nothing Factory which premiered and played well in the Directors’ Fortight section. Before that he was working tin the docu-spehre and after Cannes he moved into producing features and shorts and under the radar made his sophomore feature. Not much is known on O riso e a faca (translates to Laughter and the Knife).
