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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...
Silent Friend | Review
Allegory of the Tree: Enyedi’s Masterful Meditation on Human Progress
The metaphorical subtexts germinating to fruition through Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend are formidable, even as,...
Paris Maris: Rooney Mara Tests Maternal Instincts in Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ ‘Quest for Love’
With her sophomore feature High End (formerly known by the far alluring title Diamond Shitter) currently in post-production, Antonia Campbell-Hughes is already preparing to...
Privileged Pranked: Papadimitropoulos Sets Charlotte Gainsbourg & Edgar Ramirez for “Oh, How Fun!”
Edgar Ramirez, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Annabelle Wallis, Lena Headey, Angeliki Papoulia, Makis Papadimitriou, Spyros Dadanides are among the players who'll be found in the satirical...
38 Londres Street: Sebastian Stan Confirmed, Ana de Armas, Alfredo Castro & Antonia Zegers Added to Gálvez’s ‘Impunity’
As we inch closer to Cannes, we are learning the film package identities to the ten Investors Circle Initiative and among the hottest items...
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...
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,...
Only the Lonely: Ulrich Seidl Travels to Dark Tourism Places with ‘Distances’
The folks art Cineuropa are giving us a major update on the next feature by master filmmaker Ulrich Seidl. Most recently in casting mode,...
History Repeating Itself: Magnus von Horn Train Hops with Jeremy Strong in ‘The Passenger’
Hopefully at some point it'll lose the over-used, generic title, but on the positive side, Swedish filmmaker Magnus von Horn is setting up his...
2026 Rathaus Film Grant Winners: Paisley Sutton, Rachel Debolski & Bree Gant
Rathaus Films have announced the winners of the third annual edition of the Rathaus Film Grant. The Rathaus Film Grant—this year in partnership with...
TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab 2026: Daniel Soares, Luis De Filippis & Catarina Vasconcelos Among Ten Projects
Canadian filmmaker Luis De Filippis and Portuguese filmmakers Catarina Vasconcelos and Daniel Soares are among the ten filmmakers/feature film projects who have been selected...
Audio Interview: Mascha Schilinski & Cinematographer Fabian Gamper – Sound of Falling
It’s only the second day of Cannes competition when the sophomore feature from a virtually unknown German filmmaker arrives, creating one of those disorienting...
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...
Brotherly Shove: James Gray’s ‘Paper Tiger’ Finds Homes at NEON & Palme d’Or Comp
The Croisette is set to give some love towards the Jersey Shore with Directors' Fortnight selected Butterfly Jam (by Kantemir Balagov) and now, James...
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...
She Likes it Raw: Luna Carmoon Dishes Out a Feast of Revenge ‘To Make Ends Meat’
Some electroshock under-the-radar news this morning as we learn that British filmmaker Luna Carmoon has been hard at work on her sophomore feature -...
Normandy Nesting: Léa Drucker, Melanie Thierry & Benoît Magimel Coat Carine Tardieu’s Grief Drama ‘La vie obstinée’
Riding high after taking Best Film at the César Awards -- beating out Nouvelle Vague, It Was Just an Accident, and Case 137 --...
Mystic Roots Revealed: Brady Corbet Readies ‘The Origin of the World’ with Selena Gomez
With Cannes just a month away, major updates on Brady Corbet’s highly anticipated fourth feature are likely imminent, but we’ve already received two early...
Eagles of the Republic | Review
One Flew Over the Coup’s Nest: Saleh Muddles Through Propaganda Politics
“Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible....
Erupcja | Review
Sympathy Is A Knife: Charli xcx Shines In This Snapshot Of Falling Out Of Love
In 1927, The New York Times declared that Warsaw had...
Interview: Pete Ohs – Erupcja (Work in Progress)
Filmmaker Pete Ohs likely needs no introduction, nor do the notable cast members he assembled for his under-the-radar bilingual drama, shot in Poland. With...
2026 Telefilm Canada: Zarrar Kahn, Yung Chang, Sarah Gadon, Matt Johnson & Luis De Filippis Get Coin
Telefilm Canada are investing a significant amount of coin towards 11 English feature-length films and part of the new wave of next generation of...
Jail & Jell-O Molds? Janicza Bravo to Direct Cate Blanchett in Martha Stewart Biopic ‘Good Thing’
If American indie filmmaker Janicza Bravo gets to infuse her deadpan humor and brand of absurdity to what could be a dream biopic portrait...
Clockwork Starts Ticking: Sean Baker to Direct ‘Ti Amo!’ for Warner Bros.’ New Division
Making it near impossible to have a proper box set as his filmography has been housed at Music Box Films, Magnolia, A24, and more...
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...
New Diao Yinan Thriller & Jia Zhangke Road Movie Aiming for Cannes 2027
In the if-true-then-definitely-newsworthy category, as we put all our focus on the upcoming Cannes Film Festival we're also taking inventory of the films that...
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...
Cherry on Top: Wagner Moura Begins Filming on Lisandro Alonso’s ‘O Aroma da Pitanga’
If 2026 was meant to deliver the fruits of Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso's recent creative output, it seems 2027 will also add another chapter...
2026 Le Groupe Ouest Selections: New Features by Laura Wandel, Valéry Carnoy & Léa Todorov in the Works
Located in France’s north westernmost region of Brittany, Le Groupe Ouest have selected eight projects (ten participants) with notable Belgian filmmakers Laura Wandel and...
