Tag: 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Forever Your Maternal Animal | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Only Mothers Left Alive: Maurel Funnels Dysfunctional Family Matters
You can't go home again and it’s a disaster to even try, especially as evidenced in...
Flesh and Fuel (Du Fioul dans les artères) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Paradise by the Dashboard Lights: Le Gall Finds Love in a Hopeless Place
A self-described ‘wayward photographer’ influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, French writer/director Pierre Le...
Shana | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Happy-Go-Mucky: Pinell Finds Purpose with a Woman in Transition
“No one ever wanted her forever,” is a partial description of the titular character in Gail...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Gentle Monster’
From Austria, Marie Kreutzer breaks into the Palme d'Or competition for a very first time after having competed in the Un Certain Regard section...
Gentle Monster | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Children’s Hour: Kreutzer Poses Provocative Dilemmas
The complex trappings of denial are at the heart of Gentle Monster, the latest from Austrian director Marie...
All of a Sudden | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Of Human Bondage: Hamaguchi Highlights Humanity in Quiet Drama
In the midst of what ends up being a transformative month for the principal players in...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden
The second Japanese filmmaker to premiere in the competition this year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi doesn't have an extensive Cannes history with only Asako I &...
Parallel Tales (Histoires parallèles) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Double Life of the Voyeurist: Farhadi Fails with Out of Touch Drama
Initially, it would seem Asghar Farhadi’s decision to present a contemporary world...
Fatherland | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Every Mann for Themselves: Pawlikowski Remains Chilly with Cold War Permafrost
Two iconoclastic German writers are locked in a spiritual duel for relevance at the...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’
After gaining international recognition with Berlinale entries in Silver Bear for Best Director About Elly (2009) and Golden Bear winning (plus Oscar winning) A...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’
Post My Summer of Love (2004) and The Woman in the Fifth (2011), it's with his fourth feature where Paweł Pawlikowski become someone to...
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire Inside Us All
The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s ‘A Woman’s Life’
With her sophomore feature, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet made her first trip up the red carpet steps today as one of the several competition first-timers. Sshe...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Koji Fukada’s ‘Nagi Notes’
Koji Fukada emerged as one of the major voices of contemporary Japanese cinema through intimate dramas examining social alienation, fractured families and emotional repression...
A Woman’s Life (La Vie d’une femme) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Things to Come: Bourgeois-Tacquet Explores an Affair to Remember
Crimes of the heart are afoot once more in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s A Woman’s Life (La Vie d'une...
Nagi Notes | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Only the Lonely: Fukada Explores Constructions of Identity
Japanese auteur Kôji Fukada often favors narratives wherein tenuous but comfortable rhythms are suddenly upended by a...
You BETcha!: Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’, ‘Fjord’ & ‘Minotaur’ are Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
We’re two for two. After nailing both Sundance’s top winner and the Golden Bear with our YouBETcha! predictions, we now turn to the Palme...
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Since 2011, IONCINEMA.com has kept its finger firmly on the pulse of the Palme d’Or competition. We first dove into the waters back when...
Butterfly Jam | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
For a Few Delens More: Balagov Congeals in the Garden State
Kantemir Balagov brings his native Nalchik to New Jersey with his English language debut...
La Vénus électrique (The Electric Kiss) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Liar of Your Desire: Salvadori Sputters with Low Voltage Rom Com
To some, love might indeed mean never having to say you’re sorry, but...
Exclusive Clip: Two Lanes Two Trucks in Pierre Le Gall’s ‘Flesh and Fuel’ – 2026 Cannes
Nabbing one of only four non-competition slots in this year's Critics' Week selections, French filmmaker Pierre Le Gall will be making his second trip...
Exclusive Clip: Emergency Fun(d) in Valentina Maurel’s ‘Forever Your Maternal Animal – 2026 Cannes
With her body of work, Franco-Costa Rican filmmaker Valentina Maurel has explored adolescence, female desire, social alienation and fractured family dynamics through a raw,...
Exclusive Trailer: Inserting Your Tongue into Bruno Santamaría Razo’s ‘Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building’ – 2026 Cannes
Lightning strikes twice today - earlier we premiered the poster one sheet, and now we have the full trailer to Bruno Santamaría Razo’s Six...
2026 Cannes Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for Bruno Santamaría Razo’s ‘Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building’ (Critics’ Week)
Among the seven films (six debuts) we find in this year's Critics' Week competition line-up we find Six Months in a Pink and Blue...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet for Federico Luis’ Para los contrincantes (Palme d’Or Short Comp)
Making his third trip to the Croisette, Argentina filmmaker Federico Luis follows up his 2019 Palme d'Or competition short La Siesta (The Nap) and...
2026 Cannes: Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks (+ Special Masterclass) Added to Directors’ Fortnight Line-up
Adding their 20th feature film to the 2026 edition, the Directors' Fortnight have extended a special to master filmmaker Bruno Dumont. His shot under-the-radar...
2026 Cannes: Zachary Wigon, Konstantina Kotzamani, Christophe Honoré & Maria Martinez Bayona Among 16 New Titles
James Gray's Paper Tiger was confirmed a couple of hour ago as the 22nd and final feature in the Palme d'Or competition but we...
2026 Cannes: Daniel Soares, Federico Luis, Theo Montoya & Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’s Phạm Thiên Ân in Palme d’Or (short) Comp!
Ten short films—nine clocking in at 15 minutes, with Portuguese filmmaker Daniel Soares’ latest just a minute shy—are vying for the Palme d’Or for...
2026 Cannes: Lebanon’s Ali Cherri and France’s Elie Grappe Among Critics’ Week Short Film Selections
Prior to the Palme d'Or short competition section being revealed, we have another section featuring the best in short film cinema that is worth...
2026 Cannes: Balagov, Radu Jude, July Jung, Lisandro Alonso, Barnard, Sotomayor and Dupieux Load Up Alluring Quinzaine Line-Up
Artistic Director Julien Rejl is poised to draw major crowds this year, as the selection committee makes a compelling case that the Théâtre Croisette...
2026 Cannes: Sara Ishaq, Blerta Basholli, Marine Atlan, Zou Jing & Félix de Givry in Critics’ Week Line-Up
The radiant Ava Cahen topper of La Semaine de la Critique since 2022 gives us eleven reasons to want to explore the section that...
2026 Cannes: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Selected for Cannes Premiere (!?)
There was no mention this morning for a film title we imagined would not play in competition but would none the less surface somewhere...
2026 Cannes: Wollner, Martelli, Marrakchi, Dusabejambo & Schoenbrun Load Up Un Certain Regard Section
With a touch of queer, the opening film slot for the Un Certain Regard section goes to American indie slasher film by the filmmaker...
2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp
A competition section of (currently) twenty-one features with, according to Thierry Frémaux, one more potential last minute Palme d'Or contender addition to be announced...
2026 Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Quentin Dupieux & Bertrand Mandico on the Croisette
The Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and Special Screenings selections have been unveiled and we've got our usual collection of auteurs who...
2026 Cannes: Felipe Gálvez, Emanuel Pârvu, Juho Kuosmanen & Magnus von Horn Headed to Investors Circle
Set up in 2023, Marché du Film’s initiative connects private investors with alluring high-end film projects and today they've unveiled the eight lucky filmmakers...
From Beau Travail to Let the Sunshine In: Claire Denis Receives Directors’ Fortnight’s Carrosse d’Or
Claire Denis will receive the Carrosse d'Or Award on May 13, 2026, in Cannes, during the Directors' Fortnight opening ceremony. Established in 2002, this...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Palme d’Or – Part II
Welcome back to the second portion of our Cannes Film Festival Competition predictions. Earlier we had ten titles jostling among our prognostications; today we...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Palme d’Or – Part 1
In less than two weeks, Thierry Frémaux will unveil the (never 100% complete but always tantalizingly close) lineup for the 79th edition of the...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Midnight, Cannes Premiere, Special Screenings, Out of Comp
Before we dive headfirst into full-on Palme d’Or predictions tomorrow (with a part deux that will drop brunch time on Sunday) - we now...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Un Certain Regard
Introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, the Un Certain Regard sidebar typically presents around twenty films championing distinctive styles and unconventional storytelling. In recent...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Directors’ Fortnight
It’s nearly impossible to predict what the programming crew led by Artistic Director Julien Rejl will cook up for year four, but if the...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Critics’ Week
The parallel selection dedicated to debut and sophomore features films had a chockfull of crème de la crème options last year beginning with solid...
