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La gran noche del cine español tendrá lugar en el Auditori del Centre de Convencions Internacionals en plena efervescencia del cine catalán. © Getty Images

Imagínense ahora mismo a ese Freddie Mercury a pleno pulmón cantando (y gritando) «¡Barcelooooona!». Porque, tal y como se había anunciado hace ya varios meses, Barcelona será la ciudad anfitriona de la 40ª edición de los Premios Goya. Y hoy, por fin, sabemos cuándo es la cita. La ceremonia se celebrará –¡apunta en tu agenda!– el 28 de febrero de 2026 y el escenario escogido será el Auditori del Centre de Convencions Internacionals de Barcelona, a un suspiro del Mediterráneo (aunque al principio se había barajado el Parc...

A Amenábar se suman Laxe, Coixet y Touzani.

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El Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto, que celebra su 50.ª edición del 4 al 14 de septiembre, ha anunciado nuevos títulos de su programación. Por ahora, el certamen canadiense ha desvelado únicamente las selecciones Galas, Proyecciones Especiales y la competitiva Platform. España no estará presente en Galas ni en Platform, pero sí logra una presencia significativa en la sección Special Presentations, donde se han confirmado cuatro títulos con participación española. No se descarta que se sumen más en los próximos días, pero, por ahora, son cuatro las películas patrias confirmadas.

A la ya anunciada hace tiempo El cautivo, de Alejandro Amenábar, que tendrá su estreno mundial en el certamen canadiense, se suman Tres adioses, de Isabel Coixet; Sirat, de Oliver Laxe, tras su triunfo en la Croisette; y la coproducción Calle Málaga, que llegará tras su estreno en Venecia.

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Hasta cuatro presencias españolas en el Festival canadiense.

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El Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto, que celebra su 50.ª edición del 4 al 14 de septiembre, ha anunciado los primeros títulos que integrarán sus dos secciones principales: Galas y Proyecciones Especiales. Aunque se esperan más incorporaciones, ya destacan nombres como Chloé Zhao, Edward Berger, David Michôd, Gus Van Sant, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Jenkin y Paul Greengrass. Además, España no se queda atrás y pone toda la carne en el asador con cuatro títulos. A la previamente anunciada El cautivo, de Alejandro Amenábar, que tendrá su estreno mundial en el certamen canadiense, se suman Tres adioses, de Isabel Coixet, también en calidad de premiere mundial; Sirat, de Oliver Laxe, tras su triunfo en la Croisette; y la coproducción Calle Málaga, que llegará tras su estreno en Venecia.

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Adulthood (Alex Winter)

A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)

Driver’s Ed (Bobby Farrelly)

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The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident taking home the Palme d’Or (see all jury winners here). While our coverage will continue with a few more reviews this week––and far beyond as we provide updates on the journey of these selections––we’ve asked our contributors on the ground to share favorites.

See their picks below, and explore all of our coverage here.

Leonardo Goi (@LeonardoGoi)

1. Sirat (Oliver Laxe)

2. Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)

3. The Last One For The Road (Francesco Sossai)

4. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

5. Resurrection (Bi Gan)

6. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)

7. Heads or Tails (Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis)

8. Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi)

9. Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)

10. Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold)

Read all of Leonardo’s reviews here.

Luke Hicks (@lou_hicks)

1. Sirat (Oliver Laxe...

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...

Winners of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival awards, including the coveted Palme d'Or, were revealed at a glamorous ceremony in Cannes, France this weekend. The awards this year were surprising and unexpected, with many films from across the board picking up prizes from a rather lackluster competition selection. The top prize Palme d'Or went to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and his latest film titled It Was Just an Accident (aka Un Simple Accident or A Simple Accident). This is a huge win for Panahi, who escaped from Iran recently after being unjustly imprisoned there for making his films. He originally won the Camera d'Or at Cannes (for a first-time filmmaker) back in 1995 for The White Balloon - this Palme has been a long time coming. The other excellent film everyone loved and was rooting for was Sentimental Value, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's wonderful new feature about an actress reconnecting with his father.

The Match Factory has closed more international distribution deals for the Cannes Competition title Sirat by Oliver Laxe not already picked up by Neon and Mubi.

The Jury Prize winner has also been acquired by Altitude for UK and Ireland, Cine Video y TV for Latin America, Cineart for the Benelux, while Germany and Austria goes to Pandora Film and Switzerland goes to Filmcoopi.

Sirat centers on a father and son joining a group of itinerant ravers in the deserts of Morocco in search for one last party. The Hollywood Reporter’s review called it a “techno-infused meditation on death and grief.”

Other deals include Japan (Transformer), South Korea (Challan), Taiwan (Andrews Film), Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Poland (New Horizons), Sweden (TriArt Film) and Norway (Fidalgo). Sirat, which also earned the Cannes Soundtrack Award in Cannes, earlier went to Neon for North America and Mubi took the film for Italy,...

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…...

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,...

As the lights go up on the last of the 22 films in Competition this year, Deadline’s critics reflect on the potential winners in what must be the strongest lineup in recent years…

Pete Hammond

I don’t think I’ve seen a Cannes Film Festival with so many enthusiastic reviews from the press. Only a handful of films seemed to get totally negative notices and none of them across the board. I walked out on a couple, including Resurrection, the Chinese film. Life is just too short. I also didn’t make it through Sebastian Lelio’s The Wave, or the Italian women’s prison flick Fuori despite liking Italians and its star Valeria Golino. I just wasn’t feeling it.

Otherwise, I have to say everything else I saw was above average but some of it overpraised in other quarters. Calm down! I mean, The Secret Agent was good,...

For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, a competition berth in Cannes has been a long time coming. Laxe was here in 2010 (You All Are Captains), 2016 (Mimosas), and 2019 (Fire Will Come) without once going home empty-handed, and he now rises to the occasion with Sirat, his grandest, most adventurous work yet: the kind of bold, auteurist arrival that seems to happen more here than any other festival. The story takes place in Morocco, which provided the backdrop of Laxe’s first two films, and follows a father searching for his daughter amidst the dust and drugs of an illegal rave scene in and around the Atlas Mountains. There’s a delicious touch of Paul Schrader’s Hardcore to that setup, but Sirat is more in the lineage of William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, even Mad Max: a story about a ragtag group attempting to move some monstrous vehicles over a landscape...

At some point in Oliver Laxe’s beguiling new film Sirat, a character asks a fellow traveler their thoughts on what the end of the world might feel like. The friend considers the question before responding, somewhat half-heartedly: “It’s been the end of the world for a long time.”

This sentiment haunts Sirat, which seemingly takes place in a near-apocalyptic future and follows a group of ravers as they journey through the Moroccan desert in search of one last party. Home for this crew is a worn-out caravan, stocked with food, water and other provisions. Community is anyone they meet either at or on their way to dance parties. And on the occasion they turn on the radio, the news warns of escalating wars, depleting resources and a breakdown in diplomatic relations. The harshness of this world, conjured by Laxe with his signature painterly vision, feels a lot like our own.

Cannes regular Oliver Laxe returns this year with “Sirat,” a Morocco-set, techno-fueled story about an almost mythical journey through the desert that pushes its characters to their absolute limits.

The filmmaker’s latest follows Cannes wins for his first three features: 2010’s “You Are All Captains” scored a Directors’ Fortnight Fipresci Award, 2016’s “Mimosas” scooped the Critics’ Week top Grand Prize and “Fire Will Come” a 2019 Un Certain Regard Jury Prize. “Sirat” unspools in competition.

Variety caught up with Laxe ahead of this year’s fest to discuss “Sirat,” his most contemporary and mainstream feature to date.

The film’s title is the Arabic name for the bridge between our world and paradise that spans the chasm of hell. It feels appropriate given the journey of the film’s characters. What does “Sirat” mean to you?

Oliver Laxe: I like the more colloquial meaning of “Sirat,” which is “path” or “way.

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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...

It’s the most exciting time of the year for a cinephile: the Cannes Film Festival is set to kick off next week, running May 13th-25th. Ahead of festivities we’ve rounded up what we’re most looking forward to, and while we’re sure many surprises await, per every year, one will find twenty films that should be on your radar. Check out our picks below and be sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest updates from the festival.

Alpha (Julia Ducournau)

Winning the Palme d’Or for your previous film is a pretty high bar to clear for your next. It’s also among the best problems any filmmaker could have. Four years after Spike Lee’s jury handed the coveted prize to the first female filmmaker in Cannes history––and one of the most violent films to ever take home a Palme––maverick...

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...

Deepa Mehta’s documentary ‘I am Sirat’, which unravels the inner life of a Delhi-based transgender woman, has created a big buzz after its premiere at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) here. Shot on smartphones, ‘I am Sirat’ explores the troubling and complex duality of her life.

Sirat has to suppress her inner urge to live like a woman so that her mother, and a married sister and extended relatives are not scandalized.

As she was not willing to abandon her widowed mother as she was her only support, Sirat continues to live with her as her boy and rents a room to live out her real self as a trans woman.

When her lip-synched Punjabi songs and dance reels posted on Instagram get her a big following, she was forced to remove them by her relatives.

For this conflicted trans woman, the high point of her life...

Deepa Mehta’s documentary ‘I am Sirat’, which unravels the inner life of a Delhi-based transgender woman, has created a big buzz after its premiere at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) here. Shot on smartphones, ‘I am Sirat’ explores the troubling and complex duality of her life.

Sirat has to suppress her inner urge to live like a woman so that her mother, and a married sister and extended relatives are not scandalized.

As she was not willing to abandon her widowed mother as she was her only support, Sirat continues to live with her as her boy and rents a room to live out her real self as a trans woman.

When her lip-synched Punjabi songs and dance reels posted on Instagram get her a big following, she was forced to remove them by her relatives.

For this conflicted trans woman, the high point of her life...