Tag: 2025 Cannes Film Festival
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
Unless we count some items he produced, Ari Aster is one of the filmmakers coming to Cannes without any previous Croisette history. A standout...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Hafsia Herzi’s ‘La Petite Dernière’ (The Little Sister)
Actress-filmmaker (she forever stole our cinephile heart for her role in Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain back in 2007) Hafsia Herzi has...
Eddington | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
No Country for Smart Men: Aster Satirizes the Obvious
It would seem all is actually for naught in Eddington, Ari Aster’s sprawling, meandering fourth and...
La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard Adaptation
“My name is Fatima,” is one of the constant refrains utilized in Fatima Daas’ celebrated...
Que ma volonté soit faite (Her Will Be Done) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Burn Witch, Burn: Kowalski Nurses a Curse in Sinister Backwoods
For her sophomore feature Her Will Be Done (Que ma volonté soit faite), Julia Kowalski...
Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s Debut
There’s arguably a slippery slope at work in Alexe Poukine’s narrative debut Kika, a far...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Óliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’
When he was selected for the prestigious competition section this past April, Paris-born Spanish of Galician background filmmaker Óliver Laxe achieved a remarkable feat...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Dominik Moll’s ‘Dossier 137’
Known for a filmography heavy into psychological thriller portraits with noir and crime element trimmings, the French-German filmmaker saw his second and third features...
Sirat | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone
“The Zone wants to be respected. Otherwise it will punish.” Aleksandr Kayadonvsky’s line from Tarkovsky’s existential sci-fi...
Dossier 137 | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Investigation of Citizens Above Suspicion: Moll Persists with Police Procedural
Dominik Moll reunites with his usual collaborating scribe Gilles Marchand in Dossier 137, their third...
L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Snow Way: Hémon Delivers Unwanted Help in the High Alps
A young, idealistic school teacher almost literally chooses her hill to die on in Louise...
Two Prosecutors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté
A good man is hard to find, and if one were to be found, he’s likely...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’
The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the Cannes Film Festival with what feels like an easy dozen offerings in both the docu...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’
A little bit after this year's Berlinale, there was was a great deal of buzz surrounding a certain German title that opted for the...
Sound of Falling | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Schilinksi Paints a Microcosm of Misogyny
The original title of Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature was The Doctor...
L’intérêt d’Adam | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
No Bandaid Solutions: Wandel’s Suffocating Drama Explores Collective Collateral Damage
Following her remarkable debut Playground (read review), Belgian auteur Laura Wandel moves from a harrowing...
Enzo | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Call Me By Your Pain: Campillo Gently Guides Cantet’s Swan Song
Laurent Cantet was a filmmaker consistently concerned with humans existing on the margins, those...
IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Predictions
Before our official June relaunch, Kevin Jagernauth and I deliver our top three picks for what we believe has a firm chance at grabbing...
Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Chef’s Kiss: Bonnin Uses Familiar Recipe in Pleasant Debut
For her directorial debut, Partir un Jour (Leave One Day), based on her own 2021 Cesar...
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel
IONCINEMA.com has been gauging the pulse of the Palme d’Or competition since 2011. We first jumped into the water when trades such as Screen...
Exclusive Clip: It’s Chill Vibes (for Now) in Pedro Pinho’s ‘I Only Rest In The Storm’
After premiering The Nothing Factory in the Directors' Fortnight section back in 2017, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho returns to Cannes this time with I...
2025 Cannes: Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’ Makes the Palme d’Or Cut; Bourboulon, Jarecki, Akoka/Gueret Also Added
Finally, they would have been 22. Thierry Frémaux reportedly received Bi Gan's third feature film at the last possible moment and the reason it...
2025 Cannes Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for Zuzana Kirchnerová’s ‘Caravan’ (Un Certain Regard)
Among the selections found in this year's Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard line-up we find “Caravan,” Czech filmmaker Zuzana Kirchnerová's feature debut. The...
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
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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...
