Tag: Sirât
2026 Oscars: Critic Darling ‘Sirāt’ is NEON’s Dark Horse Contender in Best Intl. Feature Film Category
It "blew up" the Croisette back in May, landed the Jury Prize, was tops on our Cannes Critics' Panel grid and this might be...
2025 NYFF: Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai, Claire Denis’ The Fence & No Other Choice Among Main Slate Selections
A dash of Sundance, a pinch of the Berlinale, a sprinkling of Cannes and a good number of Venice Film Festival items (Duse, Jay...
2025 TIFF: World Premieres Include Gavras’ ”Sacrifice’, Michôd’s ‘Christy’, Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’ & Winocour’s ‘Couture’
The Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled the heavy-hitters populating their Gala and Special Presentations sections making what sounds like an alluring line-up for...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
The jury of Juliette Binoche, Alba Rohrwacher, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, thesps Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, South Korean auteur...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Laxe, Mendonça Filho, Panahi & Trier Reign Supreme
The final grades trickled in and finally, our top three has slightly changed. Instead of a firm trio, we now have a foursome as...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Wins the Palme d’Or
He won Venice. He won the Berlinale. He now wins the Palme. With strong competition from the likes of Kleber Mendonça Filho, Oliver Laxe...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
