Tag: 2026 Cannes Film Festival
2026 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews
IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
The jury of Leila Bekhti and peers Thomas Cailley, Angele Diabang, Laura Samani, and Lebanese composer Khaled Mouzanar handed out the prizing for the...
Interview: Marine Atlan – La Gravida | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
This year, the Critics' Week gifted us a feature debut that layers a visual sensibility to a coming-of-age film that captures the fragile moment...
Interview: Abinash Bikram Shah – Elephants in the Fog | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Making his second splash in Cannes after seeing his short Lori land a Special Mention in 2022, Nepali filmmaker Abinash Bikram Shah looks towards...
Interview: Rakan Mayasi – Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Set within a tightly knit Bedouin community in Lebanon, Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep unfolds less as a traditional drama than as a sensory...
Interview: Théodore Pellerin – Unifrance 10 to Watch 2026 | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, we got to chat with actor Théodore Pellerin, one of the most quietly adventurous thesps ping-ponging between films...
Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and the uncomfortable stillness of contemporary existence, one of the most assured feature debuts to emerge...
Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film Festival was the Un Certain Regard selected (should have been in competition for the Palme)...
Interview: Lukas Dhont – Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Following the Grand Prix–winning Close, Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont returned to the Cannes competition with a film that explores how war reshapes identity, intimacy,...
Interview: Zou Jing – A Girl Unknown | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
A film project we've been tracking when the Critics' Week had launched her short Lili Alone, and then invited her feature debut to Next...
Interview: Federico Luis – For the Opponents | 2026 Cannes Film Festival
We discovered Argentine filmmaker Federico Luis as one of the exciting, singular new voices when his feature debut, Simon of the Mountain, premiered at...
The Dreamed Adventure | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Era of Men: Valeska Dredges the Darkness of the Past
There’s an essence of Valeska Grisebach’s cinema which makes one feel as if it’s...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Were Fatherland & Fjord Tops of the Fest? We Compare Grids!
Fatherland and Fjord towered above the rest on our 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel — but how did the competition stack up across the other...
The Birthday Party (Histoires de la nuit) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Bird on a Wire: The Past Haunts the Present in Mysius’ Thriller
For her third feature film, Histoires de la nuit (aka The Birthday Party),...
Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Bent Knee, Limp Wrist: Dhont Explores Love at the Frontline
“We have so much to say and we shall never say it,” is one of...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Fatherland & Fjord Rated Top Films of Cannes!
The Palme d'Or winner and the Best Director winners are 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel top graded films according to our twenty international film critics....
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Léa Mysius’ ‘Histoires de la Nuit’
Léa Mysius’s cinema as to this point focused on adolescence and sensory awakening, the body as transformation and instability but with her third feature...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10- Valeska Grisebach’s ‘The Dreamed Adventure’
We has taken her time with her cinema first shoring up with Mein Stern (2001) which was a FIPRESCI Prize (Special Mention) winner at...
The Black Ball (La bola negra) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Play’s the Thing: Ambrossi & Calvo Connect the Dots
“Dark love is the love that is never named,” wrote Federico Garcia Lorca in Sonnets...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’
From Belgium, Lukas Dhont makes his third trip to the Croisette. 2018's Girl premiered in Un Certain Regard section and won just about everything...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo’s ‘The Black Ball’
Virtual unknowns in non-Spanish speaking markets, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo — often collectively known in Spain as “Los Javis” have brought their brand...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Ira Sachs’ ‘The Man I Love’
He has been owning Sundance since he premiered 1996 The Delta and three decades later the cinema of Ira Sachs has been expanding to...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Emmanuel Marre’s ‘Notre Salut’
A relative newcomer to cinema with only the co-directed Zero Fucks Given (with Julie Lecoustre) selected for the 2021 edition of Critics’ Week, Emmanuel...
The Man I Love | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
It is Seldom That a Dream Comes True: Sachs Sends Regard with Poignant Elegy
In the realm of contemporary queer auteurs, there isn’t anyone quite...
A Man of His Time (Notre salut) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lost Illusions: Marre Administers Plodding Portrait of an Opportunist
“There’s nothing worse than being bored with a boring man,” according to French writer Antoine Laurain....
Titanic Ocean | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Deep Sea, Baby: Kotzamani Goes Down Where It’s Wetter
Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani heads to Japan for her directorial debut, Titanic Ocean, its fanciful title...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Bitter Christmas’
The only title to have had its world premiere prior to hitting the south of France is Bitter Christmas from Spain's Pedro Almodóvar. The...
Minotaur | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Cranes Aren’t Flying: Zvyagintsev Unleashes Primordial Tendencies
“They always end disastrously,” Kate Burton advises Diane Lane of extramarital affairs in Adrian Lyne’s 2002 erotic...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ‘Minotaur’
We nearly lost this master filmmaker during the Covid pandemic and so Minotaur counts as Andrey Zvyagintsev's first oeuvre after being hospitalized for a...
Her Private Hell | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
What Have They Done to Your Daughters?: Refn Returns with Vacuous Vengeance
After disappearing into television for the past decade, Nicolas Winding Refn once again...
Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Women on the Verge of a Creative Breakdown: Almodovar Explores Anxious Inspirations
“All literature is gossip,” quipped Truman Capote, an iconoclast whose predilection for ‘borrowing’...
Fjord | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Uncanny Valley: Mungiu Explores Liberated Prisons
Totalitarian mentality is driven to logical extremes in Fjord, Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s first foray outside of his native...
Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Years We Fell Apart: Razo Resurrects the Final Throes of Childhood
For his first narrative feature, documentary filmmaker Bruno Santamaría Razo utilizes a docu-hybrid in...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’
The Romanian master filmmaker Cristian Mungiu moves away from a backdrop he knows far too well to explore the family unit way further up...
The Unknown (L’Inconnue) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
She Who Is Not: Harari Explores Existential Identity Issues in the Body Swap
“A woman, for me, must remain a woman,” stated Andrey Tarkovsky when...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Arthur Harari’s ‘The Unknown’
French director Arthur Harari might be best known as the co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall, but prior to that he saw 2013's Peine...
Hope | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Monster Squad: Hong-jin Goes Full-Blown Extraterrestrial
For his fourth feature, South Korean director Na Hong-jin goes for breakneck, relentless mayhem in the curiously titled Hope....
Strawberries (La más dulce) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Fruit on the Vine: Marrakchi Harvests Bitter Justice
“We give our bodies. All that for peanuts,” is an anguished remonstrance from the protagonist in Strawberries,...
Another Day (Garance) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Rosé is the Warmest Color: Herry Explores a Liver of No Return
In several ways, Jeanne Herry’s latest socially conscious drama Garance (unfortunately outfitted with...
Moulin | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Elevator the Gallows: Nemes Aims to Exhaust in Homage to the French Resistance
Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic account of the French Resistance, Army of Shadows (1969)...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Na Hong-jin’s ‘Hope’
Another first time filmmaker to the competition but no stranger to Cannes, South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin has showcased 2008's The Chaser (Midnight Screening),...
The Station | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
No Man’s Land: Women Wage Resistance in Ishaq’s Wartime Debut
Yemenis director Sara Ishaq approaches an examination of life during wartime in her native country...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5- Jeanne Herry’s ‘Garance’
Among the least known filmmakers in the comp, the cinema of Jeanne Herry usually focuses on themes of care, custody and institutional responsibility, emotional...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – László Nemes’ ‘Moulin’
Four films in and his second trip to the Cannes competition section, Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes began his career by winning the Grand Prix...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – James Gray’s ‘Paper Tiger’
The last minute addition to the competition line-up (we imagine it was the pending Neon deal) James Gray is no stranger to the competition...
Paper Tiger | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
In the Forests of the Night: Gray Frames Fearful Symmetry
Had James Gray been prolific during the glory days of New Hollywood from the late...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beloved’
In a cinema that has worked with themes of escalating moral and psychological pressures, corruption of institutions and personal ethics, with a dash of...
The Beloved (El ser querido) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Sorogoyen Visualizes Dysfunction & Creative Catharsis
Although it’s a familiar trope, an absent father utilizing a complex ruse...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Sheep in the Box’
The VIP jacket wearing Hirokazu Kore-eda is one of Cannes' most regular presences, with seven films selected over the years and one Palme d'Or...
Sheep in the Box | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK: Koreeda Explores Cruise Control with AI
Somehow, despite being set in the ‘not too distant future,’ Hirokzau Kore-eda’s twee...
