Tag: 2025 Cannes Film Festival
2025 Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Section Say Oui to Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes’
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid was tipped as a last minute entry for the Palme d'Or competition but that didn't pan out and Directors' Fortnight...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Kristen Stewart, Anna Cazenave Cambet, Pedro Pinho & Simón Mesa Soto Un Certain Regard
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...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Lynne Ramsay & Saeed Roustayi Added to Palme d’Or Competition – Ethan Coen in Midnight
The competition section films vying for the Palme d'Or will finally have moved from the initial selection of nineteen to twenty-one with Thierry Frémaux...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: In Alice Rohrwacher We Trust – La Chimera Director is Caméra d’or Jury of One
Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher might be the most caffeinated filmmaker on the Croisette this year. After gifting us her first masterwork in La Chimera...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Bi Gan, Lynne Ramsay, Nadav Lapid, Lucrecia Martel…Who Will Claim the Final Comp Spots?
The clock is ticking—it’s the eleventh hour. The Délégué général Thierry Frémaux is deep in the final throes of curating this year’s Competition lineup...
2025 Directors’ Fortnight: 57th Edition is Book-ended by Campillo’s ‘Enzo’ & Eva Victor’s Sundance Hit ‘Sorry, Baby’
German filmmaker Christian Petzold has finally been invited to Cannes - it took the Directors' Fortnight programmers to roll out their red carpet. Starring...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Week: Laura Wandel Opener, Guillermo Galoe & Shih-Ching Tsou in Comp
Playground's Laura Wandel's highly anticipated sophomore feature L'intérêt d'Adam (Adam’s Interest) is indeed premiering in Cannes - as the opening film for the 64th...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Palme d’Or Competition Reactions
We haven't yet relaunched, but Kevin Jagernauth and I wanted to have a quick conversation about the nineteen films (plus no-shows) selected for the...
2025 Cannes: New Palme d’Or Comp Faces in Ari Aster, Hafsia, Hayakawa, Hermanus, Laxe, Carla Simón & Mascha Schilinski!
Gone are the days of the old boys club (although the Dardenne Bros will be attempting to win the record-breaking third Palme), and there...
2025 Cannes: Diego Céspedes, Morad Mostafa, Harry Lighton, Harris Dickinson & Scarlett Johansson in the Un Certain Regard
Handing in their almost finished homework, we expect an extra of titles to be added to the sixteen titles that were unveiled today. The...
2025 Cannes: Kirill Serebrennikov in Cannes Premiere, Juno Mak in Midnight, Rebecca Zlotowski in OOC
A competition filmmaker mainstay, Kirill Serebrennikov has been downgraded to the Cannes Premiere section for the world premiere to The Disappearance of Josef Mengele....
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Hafsia Herzi, Óliver Laxe & Rebecca Zlotowski?
La Petite Dernière
Hafsia Herzi
Producers: June Films' Naomi Denamur and Julie Billy
World Sales: mk2
In her first pair of attempts, actress-filmmaker Hafsia Herzi has managed to...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
The Juliette Binoche-led main competition jury could have their work cut out for them, as this might be one of those years where Thierry...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Cannes Premiere
After putting out our predictions for the Critics' Week, Directors' Fortnight and Un Certain Regard programmes we now look at the Cannes Premiere section....
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard
Last year, the Un Certain Regard section had several gems. Caméra d'Or jury prized Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's Armand and the UCR jury of Xavier...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
In the inaugural year of his mandate, Directors' Fortnight (aka Quinzaine des cinéastes) Artistic Director Julien Rejl could point to Caméra d'Or Award winning...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week
Located at the opposite end of the Croisette, the Critics’ Week section typically showcases just under a dozen feature films heavy on Caméra d'Or...
