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Total Eclipse of the Art: Markus Schleinzer Sets Christian Friedel as ‘Klaus’ Nomi
Fresh off the acclaimed Berlinale premiere of his third feature, Rose (hands down was among read our glowing review), Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer is...
No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’
Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela Martelli’s sophomore feature The Meltdown (El Deshielo) has landed at Kino Lorber, marking a renewed...
Two Prosecutors | 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...
2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin
Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri and Camille Vidal-Naquet have landed important coin for their upcoming feature film projects via...
Dietrich in Four Acts: Agnieszka Holland Longs for ‘Berlinweh – Yearning for a Home’
Showing no signs of slowing down with the output of Charlatan (2020), Green Border (2023), and Franz (2025) this decade, Agnieszka Holland is entering...
The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review
The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable
What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...
Romería | Review
Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction
After winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her 2022 sophomore film Alcarras,...
Disappearing Act: Thomas Salvador Follows Rebecca Marder, Nadia Melliti & Antoine Reinartz in ‘Chercher la fille’
Rebecca Marder, recently seen in Ozon’s The Stranger, Nadia Melliti, who captured the Cannes Best Actress prize for La petite dernière, and Antoine Reinartz...
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...
Clive Owen Crosses Reactor Number 4: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s ‘Radioactive’ in the Works
Last week Clive Owen let it slip that he was working on a new project by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (we've been patiently waiting for his...
Rasmus Rummaging: Kuosmanen Pops the Cork on ‘Dream Come True’ with Magnus Millang & Paprika Steen
Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen is set to take the plunge, not only will he be switching languages, but he'll be changing landscapes for his...
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...
La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | 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...
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: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.
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...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lucia Aleñar Iglesias (Forastera)
IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month highlights an emerging talent in cinema. This month, we spotlight Spanish filmmaker Lucia Aleñar Iglesias, whose directorial debut, Forastera,...
Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)
Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential excavation of selfhood, cinema had already been preoccupied for nearly a century with the blurring...
Renoir | Review
Family of Straw: Hayakawa Paints Busy Coming-of-Age Portrait
Going in the opposite direction of her 2022 debut Plan 75, a sci-fi meditation on Japan’s aging...
The Wizard of the Kremlin | Review
The Russians Are Killing the Russians Are Killing: Assayas Bungles Political Espionage
Of the many significant issues severely hobbling The Wizard of the Kremlin, the...
Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias – Forastera
Set in Mallorca, Cata's summer is drenched in sun and lazy promise—until it is violently rewritten by the absurd, sudden death of her grandmother,...
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...
