All Festivals articles – Page 6
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NewsFIAPF issues robust statement to defend film festivals from ‘unprecedented attacks’
EXCLUSIVE: Festival accrediation body publishes public statement to reaffirm artistic and operational independence of film festivals.
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Reviews‘Sentimental Value’ review: Renate Reinsve and Joachim Trier reunite for moving family drama
Trier’s third picture to screen in Cannes Competition co-stars Stellan Skarsgard
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week unveils prizes for 2025 edition
‘A Useful Ghost’, ‘Imago’, ‘Nino’ all take prizes.
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Reviews‘The History Of Sound’ review: Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal are clandestine lovers in US-set period drama
Oliver Hermanus’s intense, restrained film is set on the East Coast during the 1920s
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Reviews‘Romeria’ review: Carla Simon’s third, semi-autobiographical feature is ‘pensive and rather lovely’
The Spanish director continues to mine her own history for this affecting tale of a filmmaker in the making
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NewsUkrainian team of Cannes title ‘Militantropos’ make red carpet mirror action
Directors Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi and Yelizaveta Smit and colleagues wore outfits with mirrors affixed.
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Reviews‘The Girls We Want’ review: Inner-city kids fumble in Marseille-set debut
The return of a prodigal daughter upsets the balance in Prïncia Car’s collaborative Directors Fortnight title
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Reviews‘Homebound’ review: Neeraj Ghaywan’s empathetic Indian drama is backed by EP Martin Scorsese
Story of two friends attempting to escape their marginalised roots could be an Un Certain Regard breakout
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Reviews‘Tell Her I Love Her’ review: Romane Bohringer confronts her own past in convoluted hybrid feature
Over-stuffed docu-fiction hybrid is the result of a close collaboration with French politician Clémentine Autain
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Reviews‘Kika’ review: A grieving woman turns to sex work in Belgian Critics’ Week debut
Alexe Poukine’s tonally-ambitious feature-length debut is balanced by a sensitive performance from Manon Clavel
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Reviews‘The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele’ review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s drama tracks post-War life of the SS ‘Angel of Death’
’Fascinating, if not entirely successful’ adaptation sees August Diehl play the Nazi responsible for horrific human experiments at Auschwitz
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Reviews‘Girl On Edge’ review: Friendship turns to rivalry in Chinese figure skating drama
Director Zhou Jinghao’s debut bows in Directors Fortnight
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Reviews‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Observational documentary starts in 2022, taking a Wiseman-like approach to a country at war
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Reviews‘Fuori’ review: Mario Martone, Valeria Golino zoom in on ‘Art Of Joy’ author Goliarda Sapienza
Mario Martone’s Competition entry focuses on the author’s brief imprisonment and subsequent self-discovery
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Reviews‘A Private Life’ review: Rebecca Zlotowski directs Jodie Foster in her first French-speaking lead
Foster is a Parisian therapist embroiled in a murder mystery in this intriguing, uneven thriller
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Reviews‘Little Amelie’ review: Life in 1960s Japan through the eyes of a Belgian toddler
Charming animation is based on Amelie Nothomb’s memoir ‘The Character of Rain’
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Reviews‘It Was Just An Accident’ review: Jafar Panahi confronts the Iranian injustice system head-on
Cannes Competition title sees a traffic accident spark a series of devastating events
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Reviews‘Eleanor The Great’ review: June Squibb headlines Scarlett Johansson’s warm debut
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman co-star in this Holocaust-themed story set in New York’s Jewish community
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Reviews‘Imago’ review: Critics’ week doc looks at a Chechen enclave in Georgia
Filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev visits the picturesque Pankissi valley in search of his roots
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Reviews‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ review: A Cairo careworker finds herself caught up in local gang tensions
Morad Mostafa’s feature debut mixes drama and magical realism