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Nearly a year after its celebrated premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Bruno Dumont’s instant cult musical Jeannette: The Childhood...

Cannes 2017 is already a notable edition thanks to the festival's inclusion of auteur helmed television entries, and (to the chagrin of some traditional...

Not to be outdone by SPC and IFC (they just nabbed films Mungiu’s Graduation and the Dardenne’s The Unknown Girl), it pays to have...

We were the first on the interwebs to mention Mitulescu, Dresen, Labaki, Pierre Schoeller, Joachim Trier and Bruno Dumont's L'Empire (now going by the title of Hors Satan) as strong contenders for the Un Certain Regard 2011 edition, but as usual there are a handful of titles/filmmakers particularly from Asia, that were completely off our radars. Added to the odd inclusion of Gus Van Sant's film announce yesterday, we're happy to see Kim Ki-duk again -- we hope that Arirang is a return to form for the filmmaker and the prolific Hong Sang-soo must be in some creative surge period in his life -- he will present The Day He Arrives in the same section he won last year with Hahaha. Both of these Cannes-selected films sandwich Oki's Movie - a film which he presented at Venice.

If my last public screening at TIFF was any indication, Bruno Dumont's FIPRESCI prize-winning film will be a difficult, less obvious film to market. I'm somewhat surprised that out of all the films that have remained unbought from Toronto, that it's Hadewijch that has found a home.