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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...
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...
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...
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...
