Tag: Alain Gomis
2026 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Ben’Imana, Congo Boy, House of the Wind & A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra in Competition
The year’s final major film festival has unveiled its lineup, and the 23rd Marrakech International Film Festival is serving up a cinephile’s feast of...
2026 NYFF: Schleinzer, Chang-dong, Sangsoo, Hamaguchi & Mani Haghighi (Surprise!) in Main Slate
As expected there was going to be a larger Cannes (including Quinzaine) cross-over than a Venice presence at this year's NYFF. While the Palme...
Dao | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Family Rituals: Gomis Goes For Broke in Sprawling Epic
With his first narrative feature in nearly a decade, French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis formulates a complex...
You BETcha!: ‘Yellow Letters’, ‘Rose’ & ‘Queen at Sea’ are the Golden Bear Frontrunners
YouBETcha! is back, this time for our Berlinale edition, where we guess the odds of the films most likely to pick up the converted...
2026 Berlinale: Mundruczó, Çatak, Aïnouz, Schleinzer, Dulude-de Celles, Anthony Chen, Lance Hammer in Golden Bear Comp
There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...
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...
2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Walter Salles, Athina Rachel Tsangari & Harmony Korine
So here we are. The programming teams headed by Artistic Directors Gaia Furrer (Giornate degli Autori), Beatrice Fiorentino (Settimana Internazionale della Critica) and Alberto...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
In their inaugural edition and first mandate, Artistic Director Julien Rejl oversaw a significant transformation of the Directors' Fortnight, not only altering its name...
Basket of Deplorables? Ladj Ly’s “Indésirables” & Alain Guiraudie’s “Miséricorde” in the Works
He already had a firm sophomore project in the works when he was fielding questions back in 2019 at the Cannes press conference for...
