All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic
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Reviews‘Hijamat’ review: Jafar Panahi produces Nader Saeivar’s disjointed study of a Turkish immigrant family in Berlin
The fourth feature from Panahi collaborator and It Was Just An Accident co-writer Saeivar premieres in Karlovy Vary competition
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Reviews‘Black Money For White Nights’ review: Absurdist drama reckons with Bulgaria’s culture of corruption
Directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov return to Karlovy Vary following their Crystal Globe-winning The Father
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Reviews‘The Lion At My Back’ review: Cypriot migrant drama is anchored by persuasive performances
Tonia Mishiali’s second feature makes its debut in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition
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Reviews‘The Guest’ review: Trine Dyrholm is magnetic at the heart of knotty Danish domestic drama
Mads Mengel’s feature debut premieres in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition
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Reviews‘The Violinist’ review: Annecy Cristal winner is sedate, traditional Singapore-set animation
Source: Annecy ‘The Violinist’ Dir. Ervin Han, Raúl García. Singapore/Spain/Italy. 2026. 114mins When an enterprising Spanish journalist tracks down a veteran virtuoso violinist and asks to hear the story of her cherished instrument, the result is an epic, multi-decade-spanning tale of love and loss, musical creation and ...
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Reviews‘Blaise’ review: Droll French animation follows an introverted teen and his dysfunctional parents
Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue’s follow-up to their popular TV series premieres in Annecy
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Reviews‘Julián’ review: Latest animation from Ireland’s Carton Saloon is vibrant Brooklyn-set coming-of-age drama
Louise Bagnall’s feature debut makes its bow at Annecy
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Reviews‘Rogue Trooper’ review: Duncan Jones adapts 2000 AD comic strip into eccentric, entertaining animated actioner
Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden and Hayley Atwell lend their voices to Jones’s Annecy premiere
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Reviews‘Lucy Lost’ review: Charming, playful animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo novel ‘Listen To The Moon’
Olivier Clért’s feature debut plays Annecy competition following its Cannes premiere
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Reviews‘Iron Boy’ review: French animator Louis Clichy’s first feature is striking, personal study of a challenging childhood
Clichy’s debut bowed in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard before moving on to Annecy competition
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Reviews‘In Waves’ review: French debut animation is handsome, empathetic study of love and grief
French-Vietnamese director Phuong Mai Nguyen’s first feature plays Annecy competition after opening Cannes Critics’ Week
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Reviews‘Crescendo’ review: A French opera is rocked by scandal in Agnès Jaoui’s tone-deaf #MeToo satire
Daniel Auteuil, Vincenzo Amato and Claire Chust star alongside Jaoui in blunt Cannes Out Of Competition premiere
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Reviews‘A Man Of His Time’ review: A superb Swann Arlaud powers Emmanuel Marre’s ambitious, overlong Vichy France drama
The Cannes Competition title follows real-life opportunist Henri Marre as he seeks to make a mark in 1940s France
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Reviews‘Death Has No Master’ review: Asia Argento finds herself adrift in heady, uneven Venezuelan drama
Jorge Thielen Armand’s hallucinatory thriller premieres in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘The Samurai And The Prisoner’ review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s handsome Japanese period drama is a staid siege mystery
Kurosawa’s Cannes Premiere title lacks the action of his previous pictures
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Reviews‘Dora’ review: K-pop star Kim Do-yeon heads July Jung’s feverish South Korean psychodrama
Jung follows ‘Next Sohee’ and ‘A Girl At My Door’ with Cannes Un Certain Regard title
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Reviews‘Viva Carmen’ review: Sébastien Laudenbach follows ‘Chicken For Linda!’ with vivid animated take on Bizet’s ‘Carmen’
Laudenbach’s third feature premieres in Cannes Directors Fortnight before moving on to Annecy
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Reviews‘Hope’ review: A rural South Korean community comes under attack in Na Hong-jin’s thunderously entertaining genre mash-up
The director’s follow-up to ‘The Wailing’ stars Hwang Jung-min and ’Squid Game’’s Hoyeon
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Reviews‘The Beloved’ review: Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s muscular drama features a blistering Javier Bardem
Victoria Luengoemilia also stars in Sorogoyen’s bold Cannes Competition entry
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Reviews‘Gentle Monster’ review: Léa Seydoux is excellent in Marie Kreutzer’s undisciplined follow-up to ‘Corsage’
Cannes Competition title explores the collateral damage of abuse