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The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is set to run from May 12-23, 2026. The festival announced the news via its Instagram page on Wednesday.

The news comes less than three weeks after its 78th edition concluded, which saw Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident win the Palme d’Or, marking a celebrated in-person return to the festival for the Iranian filmmaker, who last attended the event 22 years ago.

Cannes has not announced the dates for its market, which this year took place May 13-21 during the festival (May 13-23).

Other winners at the most recent edition included Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which took the Grand Prize, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura who won Best Director and Best Actor respectively for The Secret Agent, Nadia Melliti who won Best Actress for La Petite Dernière and Jean-Pierrer and Luc Dardenne who both won Best Screenplay for Young Mothers.

The new film from Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne is much like the others. The actors are mostly non-professional; the locations are real; the themes are sociological; the mood is often tense. The subject of their latest is unplanned pregnancies and the options made available for young French women who feel that their situation, whether exterior or interior, might not be suited for raising a child.

What gives The Young Mother‘s Home an edge is how it approaches the topic in a country where abortions are available, affordable, and relatively socially acceptable. Which is to say that each of the film’s subjects have come to their situation by some kind of choice. Perla (Lucie Laruelle), whose small build makes her appear even younger than her years, has a disinterested boyfriend who’s just been released from a juvenile detention center; thus she hopes the baby will save their relationship.

KlikFilm proudly announces the exclusive Indonesian release of a curated selection of award-winning films, fresh from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, including this year’s prestigious Palme d’Or winner. Continuing its commitment to championing world cinema, KlikFilm once again becomes the home for the most talked-about international films of the year.

Leading the lineup is “It Was Just an Accident”, this powerful new film from Jafar Panahi was made in secret in Iran. With masterful subtlety and a sense of quiet urgency, Panahi constructs a moral thriller about guilt and complicity in a tightly surveilled society.

Here are the celebrated films from 2025 Cannes Film Festival coming soon to KlikFilm:

Sentimental Value

Grand Prix winner Joachim Trier returns with an emotionally rich drama about a widowed father and his two daughters reuniting after years apart. With a cast led by Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, and Elle Fanning, the film explores memory,...

Last year, in IndieWire’s 2024 Cannes Critics Survey, there was startling unanimity, with Sean Baker’s “Anora” winning Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Director. The 2025 Critics Poll couldn’t be less unanimous, with different films topping each of those categories this time. (Read the IndieWire’s staff’s own picks for the best films of Cannes 2025 here.) Even though the 48 critics who voted, representing four continents, largely overlapped with those who voted last year (see Page 2 for the list of all who participated), they seemed insistent upon spreading the wealth this time. For instance, Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” topped the Best Director voting, without appearing at all on the Best Film or Best Screenplay lists.

Best Film in this 2025 edition of the Cannes Critics Survey went to Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât,” the French-Spanish co-production filmed in Morocco about a father searching for his daughter, who goes missing while attending...

Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” captured the Palme d’Or in Cannes on 24 May, sealing a comeback for the Iranian director four years after Tehran lifted his travel ban. Jury president Juliette Binoche praised the thriller as “a force that transforms darkness into forgiveness, hope and new life,” moments after Panahi urged viewers to “join forces so that no one will dare tell us what we should do or wear”.

The win crowns a politically charged edition disrupted hours earlier by a Riviera power outage that briefly threatened the red-carpet broadcast yet left the closing ceremony intact. Neon, distributor of the last five Palme winners, pre-bought North-American rights to Panahi’s film during the festival, extending its awards-season run and intensifying scrutiny of whether Iran will permit a domestic release required for international-feature Oscar eligibility.

Joachim Trier’s Norwegian family drama “Sentimental Value” took the Grand Prix after a 19-minute ovation,...

Laxe triunfa en el Festival con ‘Sirat’, que comparte el Premio del Jurado. © Getty Images

La 78ª edición del Festival de Cannes ha llegado a su fin y ya conocemos el palmarés completo. En esta edición, la codiciadísima Palma de Oro, el máximo galardón del Festival al que aspira todo cineasta que pasa por la Croisette, ha ido a parar a la película It Was Just An Accident, dirigida por el iraní Jafar Panahi. Este triunfo no solo consagra al cineasta –que completa así la prestigiosa y casi inalcanzable “triple corona” de Festivales y entra en un selectísimo grupo–, sino que también permite a Neon hacer historia: se trata de su sexta Palma consecutiva tras Anora (2024), Anatomía de una caída (2023), El triángulo de la tristeza (2022), Titane (2021) y Parásitos (2019).

El cine español, por su parte, ha tenido un protagonismo especial (y es para celebrarlo). El director gallego Oliver Laxe se ha...

The red carpet is rolling up at the 78th Cannes Film Festival and the top honor, the coveted Palme d’Or has been awarded to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, edging out favorite Sentimental Value, as well as films by Richard Linklater (Nouevelle Vogue), Ari Aster (Eddington), Wes Anderson (The Phoenician Scheme), Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind) and two-time Palme d’Or winners the Dardenne brothers (Young Mothers).

Of note, It Was Just an Accident is the first film with (partly) Iranian backing since Abbas Kiarostami’s remarkable A Taste of Cherry 1997 co-win to take home to Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film tells of a minor accident that yields consequences that none of the parties could foresee. Director Jafar Panahi has been highly critical of his home country of Iran, facing numerous arrests and even facing charges of propaganda. In his acceptance speech,...

Update: In a triumphant in-person return to the Cannes Film Festival, 22 years after he last attended (though some of his movies have screened in the intervening time), Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was awarded the Palme d’Or this evening for It Was Just an Accident.

An emotional Panahi, who has spent most of his filmmaking career in the crosshairs of Iran’s authoritarian Islamic Republic government — including more than a decade of multiple detentions, prison sentences, house arrests and filmmaking and travel bans — implored from the Lumière stage: “Let’s put all the problems, all the differences aside; the most important thing right now is our country and our country’s freedom.”

To cheers, he continued, “Let’s reach that moment together when no one dares to tell us what we should completely include, what we should say, what we shouldn’t do… Cinema is a society. No one has...

Juliette Binoche’s Cannes jury has unveiled their winners for this year’s edition, awarding the Palme d’Or to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, marking Neon’s sixth win in a row. Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value picked up the Grand Prize while Oliver Laxe’s Sirat and Mascha Schilinski’s The Sound of Falling tied for the Jury Prize. The Secret Agent also picked up a rare two wins: Best Director for Kleber Mendonça Filho and Best Actor for Wagner Moura.

As Ryan Swen notes, “Jafar Panahi is only the fourth director—after Henri-Georges Clouzot, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Robert Altman—to win the big three film festival prizes: the Cannes Palme d’or, the Berlin Golden Bear, and the Venice Golden Lion, and the first Camera d’or winner to win the Palme.”

Leonardo Goi said in his review of It Was Just an Accident,...

The awards from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival have now been presented. Every year, the prestigious French film festival honors new movies with a variety of awards celebrating the best director, actor, actress, and screenplay, in addition to the Jury Prize, the Grand Prize, and the coveted Palme d'Or. Recent Palme d'Or winners include Sean Baker's Anora, which went on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, Bong Joon Ho's fellow Best Picture winner Parasite, and the Oscar-nominated European films Triangle of Sadness and Anatomy of a Fall.

ScreenRant was in attendance at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, which ran from May 13 through May 24 and featured screenings of a number of films that were in competition for the biggest awards, including Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, Ari Aster's Eddington, Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love, and Julia Ducournau's Alpha. The awards have now been presented at the closing ceremony.

He won Venice. He won the Berlinale. He now wins the Palme. With strong competition from the likes of Kleber Mendonça Filho, Oliver Laxe and Joachim Trier, it was finally Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident landing the top prize. Here are all the winners:

Palme d’Or – It Was Just an Accident

Grand Prix – Sentimental Value

Best Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho – The Secret Agent

Jury Prize: Sirat – Oliver Laxe / The Sound of Falling – Mascha Schilinski

Best Screenplay: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Young Mothers

Best Actor: Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Best Actress: Nadia Melliti – La petite dernière

Special Prize: Resurrection – Bi Gan

Camera d’Or: The President’s Cake, dir: Hassan Hadi

Special Mention, Camera d’Or – My Father’s Shadow, dir: Akinola Davies Jr

Short Film Palme d’Or – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now, dir: Tawfeek Barhom

Special Mention, Short Film – Ali, dir: Adnan Al Rajeev…...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s triumphant return to the Cannes Film Festival, “It Was Just an Accident,” has won the Palme d’Or as the best film in competition at the festival, the Cannes jury announced on Saturday evening.

Panahi, who spent almost 20 years in prison or under house arrest in Iran for making anti-government films, was allowed to leave the country and go to the festival for the first time in more than two decades with the film, which deals with victims of oppression who abduct a man they believe was their torturer in prison.

“The bracing thing about ‘It Was Just an Accident’ is that it has married Panahi’s wit and humanism with real anger,” said TheWrap’s review.“… In a festival full of fury, this is one of the films that hits hardest and resonates longest.”

The review also suggested that the film, which premiered on Tuesday,...

And the wins keep on coming for Neon. But also for Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, currently in exile from his home country of Iran for how he’s voiced opposition through his cinema. This includes his latest film and now Palme d’Or winner, “It Was Just an Accident,” a moral thriller that finds five dissidents debating whether or not to murder their former torturer.

In IndieWire’s review out of Cannes, David Ehrlich said of the film, “From the plot description alone, it’s obvious that ‘It Was Just an Accident’ finds Panahi working in a very different register than he had to while “banned” from making films — a period that saw his long-standing penchant for metafiction become considerably more pronounced, as he was forced to make himself the subject of iPhone/camcorder masterpieces like ‘This Is Not a Film.’ This one still had to be shot in secret...

Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival closed with its most political moment, as Iranian director Jafar Panahi accepted the Palme d’Or for “It Was Just an Accident,” a film directly inspired by his time in prison.

Filled with equal helpings of absurdist humor and ire, Panahi’s film follows five characters who think they’ve identified the prosecutor who tortured them during their own arrests — but as they were all blindfolded in jail, none can be entirely certain their captive is the same man.

Since Panahi’s first arrest and conviction for “propaganda against the regime” in 2010, the director has continued to make films, even when expressly forbidden from doing so. In 2011, he sent a flash drive to Cannes with his movie, “This Is Not a Film,” and has remained a vocal defender of other directors whose work the government seeks to suppress.

Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d’Or for best film for It Was Just an Accident at the 78th Cannes international film festival.

Panahi, who just a few years ago was imprisoned in Tehran and under a 20-year travel and work ban, returned triumphantly to Cannes, accepting his award from jury president (and vocal Panahi fan) Juliette Binoche.

Panahi’s film, his first since being released from prison in 2023, is a direct assault on Iran’s authoritarian regime. The thriller follows a former political prisoner who kidnaps a man he believes to be his torturer and then debates with other dissidents whether to kill or forgive him.

The win marks the sixth time in a row a film acquired by Neon for North America has won the Palme d’Or. Tom Quinn’s indie outfit kept its Cannes streak going by picking up It Was Just an Accident earlier this week.

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident has won the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped on Saturday night (May 25).

Scroll down for full list of winners

It is the Iranian director’s first film since his release from prison and follows a man, his heavily pregnant wife, and their young daughter as they get into a minor car accident that sets off a dark chain of events.

In his speech Panahi addressed “all Iranians, with different opinions, in Iran and around the world”. He said: “The most important thing is our country and the freedom of our country.

The closing ceremony of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival is taking place today (May 24) at 18:40 Cest (17.40 BST) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.

The ceremony ison schedule after a massive power cut earlier on in the day in the region.This story will update with the winners as they happen, below. Refresh the page for latest updates.

This year’s jury was made up of presidentJuliette Binoche, plus Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong and Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leila Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo and Carlos Reygadas

Cannes 2025 Competition awards

Jury Prize

Sirat, dir.Oliver Laxe

Best Screenplay

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,...

Yes, Cannes is still rolling. And no, the Palme d’Or winner has not been crowned (that’ll come later Saturday). Cannes has been going on for so long that “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” a film that screened early in the festival, is now playing on thousands of screens worldwide. But let’s get into the happenings before this year’s festival finally closes out.

Un Certain Regard Regarded

Everyone is always in a tizzy over what will get Cannes’ big award, the Palme d’Or, but just as interesting (perhaps more so) is the competition for the Un Certain Regard, which is run in parallel to the main competition. The goal of Un Certain Regard, which was introduced in 1998, is to give a spotlight to unusual films that take narrative or stylistic risks. And this year was no different.

This year’s top prize winner was “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,...

Updated, May 24: My final ranking of how this year’s Cannes Film Festival titles will shake out while vying for the Palme d’Or is below. Reviews and reactions to late premieres “The Mastermind” (Kelly Reichardt) and “Young Mothers” (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) haven’t startled the race too much at this point. The Palme is Neon’s to lose, with either “Sentimental Value,” or the company’s mid-festival acquisitions comprising “It Was Just an Accident,” “Sirât,” or “The Secret Agent” taking the top prize. My money is on “Sentimental Value,” which delivers on the emotion the jury looks for, but who can really be sure?

If not Neon, then the Palme could go to Mubi for Mascha Schilinski’s avant-garde tone poem of generational female anguish, “Sound of Falling.” Expect this film to win something. As for Neon, if they win the 2025 Palme, it’s their sixth in a row after “Parasite,...

The stripped-down aesthetic principles, compassionate humanism and naturalistic purity in the films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne make their body of work uncommonly cohesive. It’s easy to be glib about the influential Belgian brothers and say you know exactly what you’re getting with a new Dardenne film — much like their social realist counterpart across the North Sea, Ken Loach, whose films they began helping to produce in 2009. But anticipating the form, the political leanings or broad thematic concerns of a movie is not the same as knowing in advance where it will take you, what kind of marginalized lives it will illuminate.

Ever since their international breakthrough in the 1990s with La Promesse and Rosetta, there’s always been the capacity to surprise in a Dardenne movie. Their latest, Young Mothers (Jeunes Mères), is the filmmakers’ most surprising work in years. It provides unfiltered emotional access to the...

Before turning their attention to ripped-from-reality social justice stories, Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne got their start making short documentaries set in working-class housing projects. They brought that same immersive, observational approach with them to their fiction features, reflected in the long-take handheld camerawork, gritty street-level locations and casting of nonprofessional actors that have become their signature. And yet, it’s doubtful that anyone would have mistaken a Dardenne film for a documentary … until now.

“Young Mothers” is the duo’s most convincing film yet, owing largely to the way they have widened the focus from one or two characters in crisis — the sort of urgency that drove everything from “Rosetta” to “Tori and Lokita” — to a loose choral form. Instead of presenting a single, nail-biting dramatic situation, the Dardennes’ no-less-engaging ensemble drama dedicates quality time to a quartet of young women — girls, really — under the care of a maternal assistance home in Liège.

In what has become a familiar sight on the Croisette, Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne strolled up the red carpet to present their new film to a welcoming crowd.

The Dardennes’ latest, The Young Mother’s Home premiered early Friday evening, marking the brothers’ ninth entry in Cannes competition. The Dardennes almost never leave Cannes empty-handed.

Casual with suits and no ties (the early afternoon screenings are not mandatory black-tie), the Dardennes strolled up to the premiere accompanied by their somewhat more excited (and better dressed) young stars: Lucie Laruelle, Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaïna Halloy Fokan and Samia Hilmi.

Warm, enthusiastic applause rolled over the auditorium in waves as the film credits rolled, and the Dardennes embraced their co-stars. The young actresses wiped away tears. Laruelle, who plays Perla in the film, was visibly shaking with emotion, before joining her co-stars in a group hug. The film, while containing...

Cannes habitués Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne debuted their latest film, Young Mothers, in Competition this afternoon, greeted by a 10.5-minute ovation.

The story follows five girls who are housed in a shelter for young mothers. The teenagers are hoping for a better life for themselves and their babies.

Marking their ninth time in Competition, the Dardenne brothers are two-time Palme d’Or winners, for 1999’s Rosetta (which also took a Best Actress prize for Emilie Dequenne who passed away earlier this year), and for 2005’s L’Enfant.

Other laurels the Belgian brothers have received on the Croisette include Best Screenplay for 2008’s Lorna’s Silence, a shared Grand Prize for 2011’s The Kid with a Bike, Best Director for Young Ahmed in 2019 and a special 75th Award for 2022’s Tori and Lokita.

Luc Dardenne told the Cannes Film Festival of Young Mothers, “We wanted to tell five stories about five young girls who,...

For nearly 50 years, the Dardenne brothers have been faithfully hoeing the same cinematic row; Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne make films filled entirely with the kinds of people who generally pass beneath notice: people who struggle to manage their lives, who battle addictions, who are born poor and are likely to die poor. They make these films, moreover, mostly where they live, in the Francophone part of Belgium, casting both actors and non-professionals to work alongside each other and cleaving to an unadorned naturalism. It isn’t exactly cinema verité — they find lyricism in the everyday — but they never try to puzzle us with poetry or impress with cinematic flourishes. Their politics are even plainer. The Dardennes stand with the have-nots. They serve them by telling their stories.

Young Mothers focuses on five very young women living temporarily in a shelter for underage mothers. These narrative strands are drawn from their observations of a real shelter,...

Raising a child is one of the hardest things you can do, even under the best of circumstances. You have to operate on next to no sleep, navigate an already-challenging reality and find a way to support yourself financially, as well as emotionally. And you must do this day after day. In “Young Mothers,” the latest from social-realist filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, we see this through the lens of five young single mothers who are navigating the perils of growing up in a tough world. It’s a film that doesn’t just set out to capture their day-to-day lives, but also explores how they find ways to support each other when nobody else will.

The result is an often deeply felt ensemble film that can still underserve a few of the characters along the way. Even as the story strikes a good balance in how it cuts between each respective narrative,...

Penélope Cruz has joined the cast of Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s upcoming feature La Bola Negra (The Black Ball), taking inspiration from an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca.

Calvo and Ambrossi, who are known jointly as Los Javis and made waves with genre-bending thriller La Mesias, unveiled fresh casting details at an event Monday in Cannes.

Goodfellas’ Eva Diederix was also in attendance to announce the company had boarded sales on the title, which is an original Movistar Plus+ film in collaboration with Suma Content Films and co-produced with Le Pacte.

Further cast announcements included singer-songwriter Guitarricadelafuente, who will make his big-screen debut; Miguel Bernardeau; Carlos González; and Cannes Best Actress winner Lola Dueñas (Volver), who also won the Feroz, Forqué, and Platino Awards for her performance in La Mesías.

The duo’s breakout film La Mesías premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival,...

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Hoy arranca el Festival de Cannes 2025 y, si eres cinéfilo, esto te sonará (¡es todo un clásico!): empiezan a salir las primeras reacciones entusiastas desde La Croisette y te preguntas si la película tiene distribución en España y si la veremos en cines. Pues bien, para ahorrarte algunas dudas, en mundoCine hemos hecho los deberes y recopilado aquí mismo las películas de la Sección Oficial que ya tienen asegurado su estreno en nuestro país. Además, iremos actualizando este artículo conforme vayan habiendo más novedades.

Alpha dir. Julia Ducournau (en competición)

Alpha, una problemática niña de 13 años que vive con su madre soltera. Su mundo se derrumbará el día que vuelve del colegio con un tatuaje en el brazo.

Distribución en España: Caramel Films y YouPlanet Pictures

© Cannes LA Trama Fenicia dir. Wes Anderson (en competición)

Historia de espionaje a raíz de una tensa relación padre-hija en el seno de una empresa familiar.

Who decides what’s best for a child? In “Adam’s Sake,” a scrawny 4-year-old boy is admitted to the pediatric ward with a broken arm, which the doctors attribute to malnutrition. A social worker is called, and Adam’s mother — who’s hardly more than a child herself — is forbidden access to her son while hospital staff try to nurse him back to health. But Adam refuses to eat unless his mother is present, fighting against the feeding tubes the doctors have ordered.

All that is backstory that we piece together on the trot during the opening minutes of Belgian director Laura Wandel’s emotionally wrenching whirlwind, which is bolstered by a pair of terrific performances from Léa Drucker as Lucy, the pediatric department’s head nurse, and “Happening” star Anamaria Vartolomei as Adam’s mom, Rebecca — to say nothing of soulful newcomer Jules Delsart, the remarkable young actor who plays Adam.

Belgian helmer-writer Laura Wandel nabbed Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize in 2021 with her feature debut, “Playground,” about two siblings at primary school. She returns to the festival to open the Critics’ Week with her second feature, “Adam’s Sake.” It centers on a compassionate nurse, a sick child and his mother. Indie Sales has the rights.

What inspired the narrative?

I felt drawn to the world of pediatric wards — another Belgian institution, in fact — because it offers a beautiful representation of society and because it refers to the world of childhood. Institutions interest me because they are, for the most part, mini-societies with hierarchical relationships, their own well-defined rules and laws, which most often end up causing systemic violence. I quickly felt the need to go there to document and confront the reality on the ground by meeting with the health care staff. … From there, I came up with the...

The Cannes Film Festival is nearly here and while it’s easy to get swept up in the glitz and glamor and very big yachts, there’s another, equally important side to the festival as a marketplace for films from all over the world seeking distribution.

And there are some very big movies at this year’s festival which don’t have distribution, either domestically or internationally, that are very much worth keeping an eye on. They could be some of the festival’s biggest splashes.

“Die My Love” (Courtesy Cannes Film Festival) Die, My Love (Lynne Ramsay)

Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today and the fact that she has only made five features total, beginning with her outstanding debut feature “Ratcatcher” (back in 1999), turning the release of each new film into a verifiable event. “Die, My Love,” her first since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here,...

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¡Arranca la semana Cannes! Todos los ojos (al menos los cinéfilos) se posan ya sobre La Croisette, expectantes por descubrir las películas que darán más que hablar… y quién se alzará con la codiciada Palma de Oro, que el año pasado fue para Anora, luego coronada con el Oscar a la Mejor Película. ¿ Habrá esta vez victoria española, con Carla Simón u Oliver Laxe entre los aspirantes? Crucemos los dedos. ¿Repetirá Julia Ducournau la hazaña de Titane? Quién sabe. Lo que sí podemos hacer es seguir de cerca las reacciones, y para eso os dejamos un calendario con los estrenos mundiales de las películas en competición… y otras de las más esperadas del Festival.

MIÉRCOLES 14 Mayo COMPETICIÓN

15:00 | Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)

22:30 | Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)

Fuera De COMPETICIÓN

18:45 | Misión imposible: Sentencia final (Christopher McQuarrie)

Jueves 15 Mayo COMPETICIÓN

18:30 | Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll)

21:30 | Sirat (Oliver Laxe...

As your “Screen Talk” co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio pack for Cannes, we preview the hot titles for sale, the studio marketing launches, the possible Competition prize contenders, and the movies that have already released trailers. We speculate about the potential brought by President Trump’s latest proposal of a 100 percent tariff on movies filmed overseas. And we preview the summer lineup.

In new news, the already sprawling Cannes Film Festival has just welcomed a few new additions: Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” finally joins the competition after much speculation and anticipation, as well as Eugene Jarecki’s delayed Julian Assange documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” which was pulled from Sundance due to developments in the story.

Among the competition titles without North American berths are Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” with Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg,...

While the critical support and general adoration for the Dardennes’ naturalistic style has unfortunately fallen out of favor in recent years, the Belgian brothers are back with a film premiering in competition at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The Young Mothers’ Home (Jeunes mères in France) is written, directed, and produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and will arrive in French cinemas just after the festival on May 23. Ahead of the premiere and release, the first trailer and poster have arrived.

The 105-minute film, which stars Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaïna Halloy Fokan, Lucie Laruelle, and Samia Hilmi, follows five young mothers and their children, all housed in a center for young mothers. The five teenagers hope to achieve a better life for themselves and their children.

Watch the trailer below, with English subtitles by clicking the gear menu and selecting auto-translate, then English.

The post First Trailer for Dardennes’ The Young Mother’s Home,...

The Cannes Film Festival 2025 line-up reveals the films that likely will be chatted about long through the year. Here’s what’s showing.

Cannes Film Festival has published its official line-up for this year’s event, and we get our first hint at the films that are set to be part of the awards conversation for the coming months. The festival will be screening several interesting films, including the directorial debuts of Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson in the new filmmaker category.

Screening out of competition will be Spike Lee’s latest offering, Highest 2 Lowest, and Tom Cruise and company are taking Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to the festival too. This has proved to be a public relations misstep in the past (remember Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny?) but with Mission releasing so soon after the festival, this seems like a savvy move to us.

The lineup for the 78th Cannes Film Festival has officially been announced. As of today, 19 films will be competing for the prestigious top prize, the Palme d’Or, which last year was won by Sean Baker's Anora. This year’s festival runs between May 13 and May 24, and the jury is headed by actress Juliette Binoche. Binoche won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 2010 for Certified Copy and an Oscar in 1996 for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The English Patient.

Two of this year’s entries come from directors who have won the Palme in the past. Another three are from helmers who have won prizes in official competition other than the Palme. Seven selections are from directors who are having their first films screened in competition.

Cannes can also be a place to see the first glimpses of major Oscar contenders. Last year, three of the...

We haven’t yet relaunched, but Kevin Jagernauth and I wanted to have a quick conversation about the nineteen films (plus no-shows) selected for the 2025 competition film section. Running for the Palme d’Or this year we have the likes of Julia Ducournau, Dominik Moll, Tarik Saleh, Ari Aster, Mario Martone, Oliver Hermanus, Kelly Reichardt, Richard Linklater, Hafsia Herzi, Wes Anderson, Chie Hayakawa, Carla Simón, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Joachim Trier, Jafar Panahi, Oliver Laxe, Mascha Schilinski, Sergei Loznitsa, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. More will trickle in next week. Check out our talk below let us know who you believe has the best chance at grabbing gold.…...

The full list of films that will be screening at the 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival has been released. The line-up was announced this morning by the Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and President Iris Knobloch at a press conference in Paris. The Hollywood Reporter has shared the program listing for this year’s event. While there are a number of anticipated high-profile titles, a bevy of auteurs will be showcasing their latest, including Kelly Reichardt, who will be returning to the competition with The Mastermind. The film is an art-heist drama and stars Josh O’Connor and John Magaro, which takes place during the Vietnam War.

Joachim Trier, the Norwegian filmmaker who made a splash in 2021 with The Worst Person of the World, returns with the new film Sentimental Value, which features Renate Reinsve. Julia Ducournau, the director of the surreal film, Titane, which got her a Palme d’Or...

The guessing game around which films could make the lineup for the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13—24, came to an end this morning at a press conference in Paris by Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch. If you tapped the latest works by Ari Aster (Eddington), Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind), Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague), Wes anderson (The Phoenician Scheme), and the Dardenne brothers (Young Mothers) to make the cut, then you were correct.

Neon, which is on a five-year winning streak of Palme d’Or winners, two of which went on to win best picture at the Oscars (Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Sean Baker’s Anora), will try to make it a sixth with, for now, either of the two films it already has in its stable: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Julie Ducournau’s Alpha.

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Dieciséis años después, el cine español vuelve a duplicar presencia en la Competición Oficial de la Croisette.

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Hoy es un día para celebrar. Porque esta mañana se ha desvelado la programación oficial del Festival de Cannes 2025 y, por primera vez desde aquel histórico 2009 –cuando coincidieron Isabel Coixet y Pedro Almodóvar–, dos cineastas españoles competirán por la ansiada Palma de Oro. Ellos son Carla Simón (recordemos que ganó el Oso de Oro en la Berlinale 2022 con Alcarràs) y Oliver Laxe. España vuelve a estar doblemente representada en la Croisette con sus nuevos largometrajes: Romería y Sirat, respectivamente.

Romería, tercer largometraje de Carla Simón, es una obra profundamente personal en la que la directora catalana se sumerge en la memoria de su familia biológica paterna. La historia sigue a Marina (interpretada por la debutante Llúcia Garcia Torras), una joven adoptada que viaja a Vigo para encontrarse por primera con la familia de su padre biológico.

Updated May 8: The Cannes lineup is now complete with four more additions, included below.

Updated April 23: The original April 10 Cannes announcement has been updated to reflect new additions to the lineup.

Updated 10:40 a.m. Et: Cannes has now confirmed that Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” will play out of competition at Cannes. The film was omitted from Thursday morning’s announcement, though Lee shared on Instagram afterward that “Highest 2 Lowest” would be heading to Cannes. We’ve now included the film below.

Earlier: The 2025 Cannes Film Festival lineup was revealed bright and early, starting at 5 a.m. Et on Thursday, April 10 for those following in the States. For those in France, festival director Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch unveiled this year’s crop of films from the main competition to Un Certain Regard and beyond at the more reasonable hour of 11 a.m. local time.

New films from Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater and the Dardenne brothers will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Cannes organizers announced at a press conference in Paris on Thursday.

Anderson will be back in Cannes with “The Phoenician Scheme,” which premiered a baffling trailer at CinemaCon last week. Linklater is heading to France with a bold movie, “Nouvelle Vague,” which tackles the sacred ground of Jean-Luc Godard and the filming of “Breathless” in the 1960s. The Dardenne brothers have “Young Mothers,” which gives them a chance to become the first filmmakers to win the Palme d’Or three times.

Actors in the festival making their directorial debuts include Scarlett Johansson, who is in Un Certain Regard with “Eleanor the Great,” starring Joan Squibb; and Harris Dickinson, the star of the Palme d’Or winner “The Triangle of Sadness,” with “Urchin.”

The main competition will include a number of...

The Cannes Film Festival announced its 2025 lineup on Thursday morning. Several expected contenders are set for world premieres on the French Riviera, including new projects from Scarlett Johansson, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier, and more.

Among the titles that will premiere at Cannes this year are Eleanor the Great, Johansson’s directorial debut with a lead role for June Squibb; Nouvelle Vague, Linklater’s tribute to the French New Wave and the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless; The Mastermind, Reichardt’s latest about an art-world heist with roles for Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, and John Magaro; Splitsville (directed by Michael Angelo Covino), a Neon release with Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona; and Sentimental Value, Triet’s follow-up to The Worst Person in the World with Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, and Elle Fanning in the cast.

Other films of note include Alpha (Cannes winner Julia Ducournau...

The Official Selection for the 78th Cannes Film Festival was revealed Thursday, with 19 movies in Competition. See full lists below.

Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Wes Anderson, who brings his latest flick The Phoenician Scheme; Richard Linklater will launch his Paris-shot Nouvelle Vague; Jochim Trier debuts his latest feature Sentimental Value; and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau returns with Alpha.

Cannes will open this year with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin. Thierry Frémaux said during his presser this morning that it was the first time a debut film has been selected to open the festival. Also hitting the Croisette for the first time is horror auteur Ari Aster, who returns to feature filmmaking with his buzzy A24 feature Eddington.

Related: Thierry Frémaux Talks ‘Mission: Impossible’; Star Presence; Hollywood Introspection & Oscar Track Record

Elsewhere, American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt will...

Belgian who won the best actress prize at Cannes for her performance in the Dardenne brothers’ film Rosetta

In the films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Belgian social realist brothers who specialise in studies of life on the breadline, a roving hand-held camera tends to cling to the main character as closely as a shadow. Rosetta (1999), their first picture to feature a female protagonist, follows a tenacious, single-minded teenager who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother on the edge of the desolate town of Seraing. She scratches around for work, poaches fish from a muddy river using worms scooped from the ground as bait and is not above betrayal and back-stabbing to get what she wants, even if it is just a job at a local waffle stand.

The picture was compared favourably to Robert Bresson’s Mouchette (1967). The brothers described it as “a war film...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.News No Other Land.Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by a group of masked Israeli settlers and subsequently arrested by the army, apparently under suspicion of “hurling rocks.” The following day, Yuval Abraham, who codirected No Other Land (2024) with Ballal, wrote that “after being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.” According to the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, there have been at least 43 attacks against the Palestinian residents of Susya since the beginning of the year. “This might be their revenge on us for making the movie,” says Basel Adra, who also codirected the film. “It feels like a punishment.

Bill Murray's pick for his career-best performance may surprise fans. The Hollywood legend recently singled out 2005's forgotten comedy Broken Flowersas the work he's most proud of.

Murray is frequently recognized as one of the greatest comedy stars of his era, with his performances as parapsychology professor Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters, jaded TV executive Frank Cross in Scrooged, and smooth-talking news reporter Phil Connors in Groundhog Day among his most notable roles. The actor's 2005 portrayal of an aging playboy in Broken Flowers earned praise from critics at the time of release, but flew under the radar for many.

Bill Murray Says Broken Flowers is His Best Movie Performance

During a recent appearance onHot Ones, Murray looked back on career highlights in between downing extremely spicy chicken wings without flinching. Host Sean Evans asked Murray if he'd even given a screen performance he knew he could never top.

"I thought the movie Broken Flowers,...

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actor who won a Cannes Film Festival prize for her breakout role in the Dardenne Brothers’ 1999 film “Rosetta,” died on Sunday. She was 43.

Dequenne’s family confirmed to French news agency Afp (via The Guardian) on Sunday night that she died of a rare cancer in a hospital just outside Paris. She revealed in October 2023 that she had been diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma, a cancer of the adrenal glands in the kidney.

Born in Belœil, Belgium on Aug. 29, 1981, Dequenne was just 18 when she broke out in “Rosetta,” a coming-of-age story about a teenager who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother. Her performance earned her Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious best actress award, and “Rosetta” also won the Palme d’Or at the 1999 festival.

Her next role was in Christophe Gans’ commercially successful “Brotherhood of the Wolf” (2001), and she went on to star in...

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actress who first achieved fame with her 1999 Cannes d’Or-winning, big screen debut in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s drama Rosetta, has died at the age 43.

The actress, who revealed in October 2023 that she was battling a rare adrenal gland cancer, died in hospital on the outskirts of Paris on Sunday evening, her agent Danielle Gain announced to Afp.

Born on August 29, 1981, Dequenne studied at Belgium’s Music & Spoken Word Academy in Baudour from an early age, taking up drama there at the age of 12, alongside joining the La Relève Theater troupe.

She landed her first cinema role at age 17 in Rosetta. She clinched Best Actress at Cannes in 1999 for her performance as the titular teenager living in a caravan with an alcoholic mother in the film, which also won the Dardenne brothers their first Palme d’Or.

“It’s terrible, life is disgusting sometimes,...

Exclusive: Jia Zhangke’s Cannes Competition entry Caught By The Tides has been set for U.S. release on May 9, 2025 via Sideshow and Janus Films.

The latest from the Chinese auteur, known for movies including A Touch Of Sin and Ash Is The Purest White, is love story told over 23 years and set against the backdrop of explosive growth in China. Made up of old footage shot by the filmmaker over the past century as well as some new, the film traverses personal and national history including all of his films to date. Zhao Tao and Li Zhubin star.

Written by Jia and Wan Jiahuan, pic is produced by Casper Liang Jiayan, Shozo Ichiyama and Zhang Dong. The film is an X Stream Pictures, Momo Pictures, Huanxi Media Group Limited (Beijing) and Wishart Media (Quanzhou) production in association with mk2 Films, Ad Vitam and Bitters End. It played at festivals including Cannes,...

The Belgium submission for the 2025 Oscars blends the sports intensity of “Challengers” with the emotional weight of “She Said.”

The hauntingly titled “Julie Keeps Quiet,” which is screenwriter Leonardo Van Dijl’s directorial debut, was shot on film like fellow tennis drama “Challengers,” but the comparisons end there. Tessa Van den Broeck stars as a top player at an academy who stays silent when her older male coach is suspended amid an investigation.

The official synopsis reads: “As the star player at an elite youth tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. She trains hard, pausing only for class or physical therapy before returning to the gym fixated on making it into the Belgian Tennis Federation. When her coach Jérémy is suddenly suspended following the suicide of one of his female protégées, all the players at the academy are encouraged to speak up about their experiences with him.