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After taking the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi's revenge thriller It Was Just an Accident is set for a U.S. release on Oct. 15. Neon is distributing the film and released a new trailer that plays up its raft of strong reviews as well as its tense plot, which depicts the fallout of a traffic accident that spirals out of control.

Filmed in secret and without a permit in Panahi's native land, It Was Just an Accident stars Ebrahim Azizi as Eghbal, the driver in the aforementioned accident. During a nighttime drive with his wife and daughter, he's involved in a hit-and-run with a stray dog that forces him to take a detour to nearby garage. There he encounters another man, Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), who comes to suspect that Eghbal is the responsible party for the traumatic abuse he experienced during a stint in prison.

The fall movie season, these days, technically begins at Cannes, the new launchpad for Academy Awards contenders and the international arthouse fare that dominates the conversation into the year. That’s where “Anora” began its journey en route to the Oscars last year. Same for “The Zone of Interest” and “Anatomy of a Fall” the year before. In other words, the time of year typically reserved for its best movies isn’t always its first stop.

Hot off a return-to-form quintessential movie summer thanks to a stacked lineup of blockbusters from “Jurassic World: Rebirth” to “Superman,” this fall will usher in hundreds more releases vying for eyeballs and awards. We’ve narrowed our list down to 54. Major themes this fall include the rise of beloved auteurs making a comeback, as well as just how much international is here to stay.

While IndieWire’s list predominantly focuses on the independents and international releases this fall,...

Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater’s loving homage to Jean Luc-Godard’s 1960 film Breathless and the French New Wave, which received a 10-minute standing ovation and rave reviews following its world premiere at May’s Cannes Film Festival, will be released in American theaters on Oct. 31 and play on big screens for two weeks before dropping on Netflix on Nov. 14, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

When Netflix acquired Nouvelle Vague’s U.S. rights shortly after Cannes, some reacted with surprise and dismay that a movie shot on film and about cinema would end up with a streamer. But the company is planning a robust theatrical release that will include not only screens in New York (where, appropriately enough, it owns the historic Paris Theater) and LA, but in all of the top 10 U.S. markets.

Additionally, THR can report that the largely French-language film will be pushed across all categories.

The Korean film, Fragment, tells a shocking story about a murder. But there’s a twist like no other. The protagonists of this film aren’t directly involved in the murder at all. They’re the children of the murderer and the victim. It is truly astounding how thriller movies have made us so unhinged in that we’re always eager to learn about the whos, whats, and wheres of a mystery, never truly seeing beyond a crime. Of course, it’s the ones who’ve been left behind that truly deserve all our attention. Are the kids of a murderer violent enough to become criminals themselves? What does the grief of losing everyone dear to you make you? Monster or angel? What are the effects of such a crime on young minds? These are the many questions that the Korean thriller-drama Fragment is asking.

The premise of Fragment is deeply riveting,...

Ryan Gosling is blasting off into space in next year’s “Project Hail Mary,” but first he made a stop at San Diego Comic Con on Saturday.

Gosling joined a packed Hall H panel alongside directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, writer Drew Goddard and author Andy Weir, who wrote the original book. Gosling plays astronaut Ryland Grace who “awakens on a spacecraft with no memory of himself or his mission. He slowly deduces he is the sole survivor of a crew sent to the Tau Ceti solar system in search of a solution to a catastrophic event on Earth. In his search for answers, Grace must rely on his vast array of scientific knowledge, sheer ingenuity and human will — but he may not have to search alone.”

To kick things off, the team showed the first five minutes of the sci-fi film to the audience. The movie starts with...

Project Hail Mary star Ryan Gosling had Hall H in stitches Saturday afternoon at Comic-Con 2025.

In addition to Gosling, author Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard were on today’s dais with Lord and Miller in conversation with Joshua Horowitz. When asked about the efforts for scientific accuracy in the film Lord and Miller described exact velocity to set-building. Later on in the panel, they jokingly teased that no amount of discomfort was too far for Gosling, whether he needed to hang from wires or be smothered in Vaseline.

“I was sent the manuscript from the greatest scientific mind of our time. And he’s sitting right next to me! No pressure,” Gosling said of Weir. “I knew it would be brilliant because it’s Andy, but nothing could prepare me for what he’d come up with this time. It showed me things I had never seen. It was...

Locarno’s interdisciplinary and international think tank StepIn will welcome comedian and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid to its 14th edition.

In her introduction “Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Making Movies that Save Lives,” Zayid will “challenge industry players to use the power of storytelling to save lives,” it was revealed to Variety exclusively.

“My entire career has been about taking risks and doing either what others fear, or what they never even imagined was possible. I am a Muslim woman who pioneered Arabic language standup comedy. I shape culture. The world has tried to cancel me, and it failed miserably,” she said.

Co-founder and co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and the Muslim Funny Fest, Zayid was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild comedy tour, she also appeared alongside Adam Sandler in “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.”

She will focus on “how much fun taking...

"I worked too hard, done too much to get here to let it all be just taken away." Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the first official trailer for After the Hunt, the highly anticipated accusation thriller arriving in theaters starting in October this fal. The buzz on this is very good already - expect it to be a major player at the Oscars next year. The latest film made by acclaimed filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, after Challengers and Queer last year. It has been described as something similar to Anatomy of a Fall. A college professor is forced to grapple with her own secretive past after one of her colleagues is faced with a serious accusation. What exactly did he do and what is going on? After the Hunt stars Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny. Damn this looks good! It is expected to premiere at...

Three-time Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling stars as a middle school science teacher who can’t even moonwalk but is now expected to spacewalk and save Earth in Project Hail Mary. He’s reluctantly recruited for a mission that has almost zero chance of succeeding, hence the title. And in the final moments of the trailer, it seems our hero learns earthlings aren’t alone in this universe.

Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Emmy nominee Lionel Boyce (The Bear), Ken Leung (Industry), and Milana Vayntrub (Die Hart) also star.

“Science teacher Ryland Grace (Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light-years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out,” reads Amazon MGM Studios’ synopsis. “He must call on his scientific...

El actor vuelve al espacio después de ‘First Man’, esta vez en la adaptación de la novela de Andy Weir. © Sony Pictures

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de la película Project Hail Mary o, como reza su título en español –y que ha provocado ya más de un arqueo de ceja–, Proyecto Salvación.

Basada en la novela homónima de Andy Weir publicada en 2021, Proyecto Salvación sigue a un profesor de ciencias, Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), que se despierta solo en una diminuta nave espacial a años luz de casa. No recuerda cómo ha llegado allí ni cuál es su misión, pero a medida que recupera la memoria, empieza a descubrir su cometido: resolver el enigma de la misteriosa sustancia que provoca la extinción del sol. Para ello, deberá recurrir a sus conocimientos científicos y a sus ideas poco ortodoxas para salvar todo lo que hay en la Tierra de la extinción,...

What if you took the "Science the s*** out of this" energy from "The Martian," added a dose of "Arrival," and swapped out the professionalism of Mark Watney for something closer to the buddy comedy hijinks of "Lethal Weapon" ... but in space? The results would be something close to the story of "Project Hail Mary," the latest adaptation of an Andy Weir novel. Starring Ryan Gosling as our newest astronaut completely in over his head, the story follows Ryland Grace as our main protagonist stranded in space with absolutely no memory of how that actually happened. The book remains one of my favorite reading experiences in recent memory, precisely because it plays out by throwing us into the deep end and slowly unspooling the circumstances surrounding these life-or-death stakes over the course of several chapters.

The movie, by directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, takes a slightly different tact.

Ryan Gosling is heading back to space, and this time it’s for Project Hail Mary, a new sci-fi movie based on the hit book by Andy Weir, the same guy who wrote The Martian. The trailer for the film just dropped, and fans are already buzzing about it. The movie is set to come out in theaters on March 20, 2026.

In the movie, Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher who wakes up alone on a spaceship. He has no idea who he is or why he’s there at first, but bit by bit, he starts to remember.

Turns out, he’s the only one left on a super important mission to figure out what’s making the sun slowly die. If he fails, Earth could go extinct.

The trailer opens with a confused Ryland waking up on the ship, messy and lost. Then it flashes back to moments from his past,...

Days after Amazon MGM debuted the first poster for Project Hail Mary, the film has just received an even more exciting update. The studio helped ease the Monday blues by dropping the first official trailer for Ryan Gosling’s new sci-fi epic, which can be found below. Project Hail Mary is based on the novel by acclaimed sci-fi author Andy Weir, who is also the mind behind The Martian, which was adapted into the 2015 film starring Matt Damon and nominated for seven Oscars. The sci-fi epic has been set for release on March 20, 2026, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Into and Across the Spider-Verse) directing a script written by Drew Goddard. Sandra Hüller will also star after recently earning an Oscar nomination for her work on Anatomy of a Fall.

Project Hail Mary has all the potential to not only be one of the best movies to come out of...

Ryan Gosling is heading to space in the first trailer for “Project Hail Mary.”

The comedic sci-fi film from Amazon MGM Studios follows Gosling, whose character makes a leap from unassuming teacher to an astronaut assigned to a risky space mission. The “Barbie” star appears opposite Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), who convinces Gosling’s character to launch himself into space to save humanity.

“It’s an insanely ambitious story that’s massive in scope, and it seemed really hard to make, and that’s kind of our bag,” Gosling said about the film at CinemaCon. “This is why we go to the movies. And I’m not just saying it because I’m in it. I’m also saying it because I’m a producer on the film.”

Based on the Andy Weir novel of the same name, the film was directed by “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

When we think of the essential checklists of must-see movies, film buffs tend to gravitate towards Sight & Sound or my personal favorite, They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?’s list of the 1,000 greatest films. And while they do give just about the most well-rounded syllabus for those interested in the history of cinema, they tend to lean a bit older. While that’s good and well and necessary for a comprehensive appreciation, some might want something more modern. But instead of the widely skewed IMDb list, we now have a new one: The New York Times list of The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century.

Coming in at #1 on the list of best movies of the 21st century was Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or and also the Best Picture Oscar, becoming the first foreign language film to do so. In at #2 was David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive,...

We often turn to actors, directors, and industry insiders for their takes on what makes a movie unforgettable. A recent poll of over 500 Hollywood names has revealed a stunning lineup of the top 30 films since 2000, showcasing a mix of bold storytelling, striking visuals, and raw emotion.

From heart-wrenching dramas to pulse-pounding action, this list spans genres and cultures, reflecting the diverse tastes of those who craft cinema. Let’s dive into the films that left a mark, starting from the bottom and working our way to the top.

30. Lost in Translation (2003) American Zoetrope

Sofia Coppola’s ‘Lost in Translation’ captures the quiet beauty of fleeting connections. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson shine as two lonely souls finding solace in Tokyo’s neon glow.

The film’s subtle humor and tender moments make it a timeless exploration of isolation and friendship. Its dreamy soundtrack and intimate pacing linger long after the credits roll.

Ryan Goslingis heading into space, and the latest look at the next big sci-fi adventure from the team behind The Martian is here. The poster for Project Hail Mary, the hotly anticipated space epic from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, has just been released, and the movie is shaping up to be an interstellar event. Based on Andy Weir’s bestselling novel of the same name, Project Hail Mary stars Gosling as Ryland Grace, a high school science teacher who wakes up alone on a spaceship with no idea who he is or why he’s there. As memories return, so does his understanding of the mission: solve the mystery behind a substance that’s causing the sun to die. The future of Earth depends on him… and he might not be as alone as he thinks.

The film is directed by Lord and Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard,...

This is no accident … you’ll soon be able to see 2025 Palme d’Or winner “It Was Just an Accident” in theaters on Oct. 15.

Neon picked up Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s latest movie — “یک تصادف ساده,” — out of the Cannes Film Festival last month, marking their sixth consecutive acquisition of the French event’s top film.

“Inspired by Panahi’s second Iranian incarceration, ‘It Was Just an Accident’ follows what begins as a minor accident as it sets in motion a series of escalating consequences,” according to Neon’s Wednesday press release.

Panahi spent almost 20 years in prison or under house arrest in Iran for making films that the country deemed to be anti-government propaganda. After winning the Caméra d’Or in 1995 for “The White Balloon,” the director was able to attend Cannes this year despite a 20-year ban on making movies in 2010 and an additional prison sentence in...

Netflix is teasing a mind-blowing new limited series that will arrive on the streamer this summer. Coronation Street's Suranne Jones will lead Netflix's newest political thriller.

Netflix unveiled details about Hostage, its new political drama which Jones is set to star and executive produce. When the French president's visit to the United Kingdom gets derailed by a kidnapping and blackmail scheme, the two political leaders find themselves in an unthinkable crisis. They are soon pitted into a fierce rivalry with their political futures and lives hanging in the balance. Hostage is set to premiere on Netflix on Aug. 21.

"I'm thrilled to be on Netflix, in something I’m really proud of," Jones shared. "It's been something I've wanted to do for a long time. We'd talked about projects previously, but for me, it was about finding the right thing. Hostage was perfect — me and Matt together, backed up by this brilliant,...

Netflix is no stranger to producing great thrillers, and it seems like the streamer might have another big hit on its hands later this summer when Hostage makes its premiere in August. Created by Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies), the five-episode limited series stars award-winning actresses Suranne Jones (Gentleman Jack) and Julie Delpy (Before Sunrise) as two heads of state, and sounds like it could be ripped from today's headlines.

Premiering on August 21, Hostage features Jones as British prime minister Abigail Dalton, and Delpy as French president Vivienne Toussaint. Jones also serves as an executive producer on the project, which promises to deliver a political thriller that will have viewers on the edge of their seats. The premise may seem a bit familiar given recent hits like Prime Video's G20 and Netflix's Zero Day, but it still sounds like it's going to be a worthy addition to the genre:

"When...

For Arthur Harari, cinema is a family affair. His grandfather was an actor in French films, and his partner? She’s a Palme d’Or winner. Though he occasionally steps in front of the camera, Harari is first and foremost a filmmaker—a director and screenwriter who has just completed his third feature. While his 2016 debut, Diamant noir, flew under the international radar, his sophomore effort, Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021), premiered in Un Certain Regard and firmly established his reputation—earning the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc – and that was followed by Anatomy of a Fall – numerous awards for Best Original Screenplay, including the big daddy of it all with the Academy Award.…...

Brussels-based sales agent Be For Films has closed major deals on “Love Me Tender,” Anna Cazenave Cambet’s sophomore feature starring Vicky Krieps (“Hot Milk”) following its well-received world premiere at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.

Based on Constance Debré’s autobiographical novel, the film follows Clémence (Krieps), whose life is dramatically upended when her ex-husband files to strip her of custody of their son after she comes out.

The movie sold Canada (Axia Films Inc), Spain (Bteam Pictures), Italy (Wanted), Sweden (Lucky Dogs Ab), Greece (Cinobo), Brazil (Imovision), Baltics (A-One Films), Benelux (September Film Distribution) and Switzerland (Adok Films). Be For Films is currently in negotiations to close deals in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany.

Krieps stars opposite Antoine Reinartz (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Monia Chokri (“The Nature of Love”), Vigo Ferrera-Redier (“Freres”), among others. “Love Me Tender” is produced by Novoprod Cinéma, with co-production from France 2 Cinéma and Viktoria Films.

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A Widow’s Game is a Spanish crime drama film directed by Carlos Sedes. Inspired by true events, the Netflix film revolves around the murder investigation of an engineer, which reveals hidden dark secrets about his seemingly perfect wife. A Widow’s Game stars Ivana Baquero, Tristán Ulloa, Carmen Machi, Joel Sánchez, and Álex Gadea. So, if you loved the intense drama, thrilling mystery, and complex characters in A Widow’s Game, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Gone Girl (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – 20th Century Fox

Gone Girl is a psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Gillian Flynn. Based on Flynn’s 2012 novel of the same name, the 2014 film follows Nick Dunne, who suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife’s sudden disappearance, but everything might not be as it seems.

Netflix’s A Widow’s Game is a twist-filled Spanish thriller that is strange mix of emotional manipulation, murder, and police investigation, wrapped in a tightly wound psychological drama. Directed by Belén Macías and starring Maribel Verdú as the cunning and cold-hearted Maje, alongside Tamar Novas as Salva and Verónica Echegui as the relentless detective Eva, the film dives into a complex web of lies. As Eva races to uncover the truth behind Arturo’s death, she also uncovers a chilling portrait of a woman who uses love as a weapon and deceit as survival.

If you found yourself drawn to A Widow’s Game for the twisted narrative and even twistier and morally gray characters, then this list of movies like A Widow’s Game will definitely appeal to you.

1. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

Anatomy of a Fall centers on Sandra Voyter, a German writer living in the French Alps with her husband,...

For a long time in the popular cinematic imagination, the French countryside was a golden place, of haybales, wildflowers and uncannily beautiful goatherdesses. More recently, mainly thanks to the darker sensibilities of Bruno Dumont and Alain Guiraudie, it has become the dank breeding ground for peculiar stories of rural spite and small-town perversity. This is the new tradition to which Julia Kowalski’s “Her Will Be Done” belongs — not least because it features two Guiraudie familiars in “Misericordia”‘s Jean-Baptiste Durand and “Standing Vertical”‘s Raphaël Thiéry. And though it promises more than it ultimately delivers, mostly Kowalski’s sophomore title is a solid addition to the subgenre, developing into an intriguing mix of heady and earthy, in which folk-horror eeriness fuses with provincial narrow-mindedness, and mysticism oozes through the muck.

The opening moments cement its tonal dissonance as, with a twang of Daniel Kowalski’s spare, uneasy score, a brief prologue with fire,...

Olivia Cooke has cemented herself as one of the most magnetic performers on HBO's House of the Dragon, and will now apply those talents to Chloe Okuno's latest thriller, Brides. The project will be distributed by Neon, which has recently garnered acclaim for its film Anora.

Per Deadline, Cooke will be replacing horror veteran Maika Monroe, who has appeared in films like It Follows and Okuno's breakout film, Watcher. Monroe was forced to step down from the role due to scheduling conflicts with her Universal film Reminders of Him– adapted from It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover's novel of the same name. The film follows "Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband, who travel to a remote Italian villa whose owner, a mysterious count, takes a peculiar interest in Sally."

Cooke is known for her roles in the sci-fi film Ready Player One, the American psychological horror drama Bates Motel,...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival winners were unveiled on Saturday, with all of the major prizes going to international films, putting many potential 2026 Oscar contenders on the map and setting the stage for what will be an exciting awards derby.

Recently, as a result of the Academy’s expansion of voting members, there have been more international features in the top categories at the Oscars. The past two years have seen double the tally in Best Picture. With Cannes being the biggest kingmaker for films on the road to the Oscars, as seen with Best Picture winners Parasite and Anora and Best Picture nominee Anatomy of a Fall, below are the biggest international competitors to keep an eye on.

Palme d'Or: It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi

Categories to watch: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film

Jafar Panahi becomes the fourth director to win the Palme d'Or,...

Agathe (Camille Rutherford), the charming protagonist of Laura Piani’s pleasant romantic comedy Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, dreams of being a writer. A bookseller in Paris, she spends her days roaming the stacks and absorbing the words of literary greats. But like many aspiring authors shy about their talent, Agathe only scribbles in her spare time and refuses to let anyone read her work. When her best friend and colleague Felix (Pablo Pauly) discovers one of her drafts, he submits an application to a prestigious writing residency established in Austen’s name on Agathe’s behalf. Once she’s accepted, her decision to attend changes her life.

With ample charm, Piani fashions a film that is both an ode to the 19th century literary figure and a love letter to writing. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life doesn’t reinvent the rules of the rom-com, but it does find ways...

The general consensus surrounding the 2025 Cannes Film Festival was that the lineup this year proved to be surprisingly muted; with no shortage of exciting names both in front of and behind the camera, the pervading disappointment that began with the premiere of the bloated and repetitive “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” echoed throughout an edition that never quite caught fire, despite the caliber of talent consistently making its way along the Croisette. In any case, no year in Cannes is ever outright bad, and 2025 still saw its share of exciting features that will no doubt come to dominate movie discourse for the rest of the year and beyond.

In compiling a list of 10 movies from the Cannes festival 2025 to keep your eye on, there are a few titles that just barely miss out on the proceedings. Honorable mentions should therefore go to films like Joachim Trier’s competition standout “Sentimental Value,...

Even in supposedly enlightened societies it is practically an article of faith that a woman’s identity as a mother must supercede all her other identities. Not only that: any woman not willing to sacrifice all the other love in her life for the love of her child is unnatural, an aberration and the ultimate taboo: a bad mother. Anna Cazenave Cambet’s sweeping, moving “Love Me Tender,” based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Constance Debré, aims at the heart of this pervasive ideology of hypocrisy and unreachably high expectations, and largely thanks to a rivetingly radiant Vicky Krieps, hits its mark with painful accuracy. The paths to what is socially deemed success as a mother are few and narrow and heavily policed, but there are a million ways to fail.

Krieps, lean and rangy in T-shirts and denim, plays Clémence, a divorced writer who used to be a lawyer,...

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Still from "Sentimental Value"

Herewith a list of all the films that won prizes at Cannes. Some of these will come to the US this year. Others will surely be held until 2026 (the whims and vagaries and troubles of distribution). A select few will probably compete for attention at the Oscars in one category (Best International Feature Film) or another (what's this year's Anatomy of a Fall?) 

The winners, what the films are about, and possibilities for Oscar submissions are after the jump... ...

For many years most in the industry have looked to the fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto as the real start of Oscar season, but recently, with two Palme d’Or winners going on to also be Best Picture winners, the “start” of the season has to be redefined. It really now starts at Cannes.

For example, in 2024 the Cannes Film Festival selections and winners scored very big at the Oscars, with Palme d’Or winner Anora becoming only the third film to also win the Best Picture Academy Award (after 1955’s Marty and 2019’s Parasite). Emilia Perez, The Substance and the animation feature winner Flow also saw big success out of Cannes at the Oscars, where the festival’s films scored an overall whopping 31 nominations. In fact the track record has been pretty good, not at all a detriment for its early positioning, in the past seven...

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...

As Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident was declared winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or on Saturday evening, one of the first questions from the Deadline team was: “Could it go to the Oscars?”.

It’s an obvious question given the Oscar track record of recent Palme d’Or winners Anora, Anatomy of a Fall and Parasite.

However, it is unlikely that Iran’s Islamic Republic government will allow Panahi’s film to be put forward as the country’s Best International Feature Film submission for the 2026 Oscars.

Aside from Panahi’s outspoken stance against its stranglehold on democracy which has twice landed him in prison, the film is highly critical of Iran’s penal system on the back of the director’s own firsthand experiences.

Billed as “a powerful statement for humanity” by Deadline critic Pete Hammond in his review, It Was Just An Accident...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival concluded on Saturday following two weeks packed with screenings, stars, press, and parties. With the prizes having been handed out for the festival’s 78th anniversary, awards pundits can now start looking at what contenders might be in the best spot to get into the upcoming Oscar race.

This year's prestigious Palme d’Or was awarded to It Was Just an Accident from the long-persecuted Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. The revenge story centers on five former prisoners who believe they’ve identified and found the person responsible for torturing them. It’s Panahi’s first project since his ban on making films was lifted by the country’s religious leaders who had imprisoned him for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.” It marks the second Iranian film to win Cannes' top honor after Taste of Cherry (tied with The Eel from Japan) in 1997 from Abbas Kiarostami, whom...

Call them a barometer, clairvoyant, or just god damn shrewd when it comes to choosing award-winning movies, but Neon has just scored its sixth Cannes Palme d’Or in a row with It Was Just an Accident.

Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman first reported two days ago that Neon scooped up North American rights to the movie.

This comes after last year’s Cannes top prize winner Anora, Justine Triet’s 2023 title Anatomy of a Fall, 2022’s Triangle of Sadness, 2021’s Titane and 2019’s Parasite. Out of that bunch, Anora and Parasite went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars, which is whole other level of award campaigning genius on behalf of the Tom Quinn run distribution label.

It Was Just an Accident blurb reads “What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.” The pic was one of the best-reviewed movies at the festival,...

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,...

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.

Exclusive: Neon is closing up a deal for rights to Natalie Portman-voiced animation Arco, which recently launched at the Cannes Film Festival.

French director Ugo Bienvenu’s animated feature, which has been described as “France’s answer to Studio Ghibli”, is about a boy who uses rainbows to travel through time and his adventures as he gets stuck in the wrong era.

Oscar winner Portman is also producing with Sophie Mas under their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers.

It’s another win for Neon, which has been voracious once again at Cannes, also acquiring The Secret Agent, It Was Just An Accident and Sirat, in addition to Sentimental Value, which they already had.

Taking its cue from the fantasy premise that rainbows are time machines, the movie revolves around 10 year old rainbow-child Arco, who lives in the distant future, 2932. His...

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,...

With the final weekend of the 78th Cannes Film Festival in sight, it’s time to project who gets the biggest launching pad for the upcoming Oscar season by walking away with the coveted Palme d’Or.

Based on critical reception, audience ovations, and speaking with several sources on the ground and close to the jury members, a handful of films have clearly separated themselves from the pack — none more so than “Sentimental Value,” Joachim Trier’s incisive father-daughter drama that’s become the buzziest title on the Croisette.

Distributed by Neon, which is aiming for an unprecedented sixth consecutive Palme win — after “Parasite,” “Titane,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Anatomy of a Fall” and “Anora” — “Sentimental Value” received the most enthusiastic standing ovation of the festival. Trier, a Cannes veteran whose “The Worst Person in the World” nabbed Best Actress in 2021, seems poised for a coronation.

However, could it be that easy?...

Neon has secured North American distribution rights to Oliver Laxe’s Sirât following the film’s competition debut at Cannes. The deal, announced on the opening day of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, marks Neon’s fourth competition acquisition this year.

Sirât premiered on May 15, 2025, offering an atmospheric journey into the deserts of southern Morocco. The narrative follows Luis, portrayed by Sergi López, alongside his son Esteban (Bruno Núñez Arjona), as they search for a daughter who vanished amid a desert rave.

Laxe co-wrote the screenplay with Santiago Fillol, melding spiritual symbolism and raw human emotion. Cinematographer Mauro Herce Mira captured the film on Super 16mm, underscoring its tactile, hypnotic quality.

The Spanish-French co-production received €1.2 million in development funding from Spain’s Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts before filming across Teruel and the Moroccan Sahara. Laxe described Sirât as “accessible art with a tribal beat,” emphasizing its fusion of mysticism and music.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi made his first in-person appearance at the Cannes Film Festival in two decades this week to debut his new film “It Was Just an Accident,” and now he’s walking away with distribution from one of the hottest studios around. Neon has picked up North American rights to the drama, which debuted this week to rave reviews as Panahi drew from his own experience being detained and imprisoned by the Iranian government to tell a tale of revenge.

Neon will release “It Was Just an Accident” in North American theaters later this year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

In his rave review for TheWrap, Steve Pond hailed the movie as one of Panahi’s best. It follows a group of individuals who abduct a man they believe to have been an interrogator at Iranian prisoners.

“The bracing thing about ‘It Was Just an Accident...

Tom Cruise's next movie is a "brutal comedy".The 62-year-old actor is currently promoting 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' but he's also been busy working on director Alejandro G. Iñárritu's upcoming film, which is tentatively titled 'July' and has just wrapped shooting in London.The Oscar-winning director teased the film is "insane" and promised audiences will be surprised.He told The Hollywood Reporter: “All I can say is it is a brutal, wild comedy of catastrophic proportions. It’s insane."It’s scary and funny and beautiful. I know comedy is not what people expect from me, or Tom, and making this film was terrifying for me, but I don’t like to repeat myself, and every film should scare you a little."The 61-year-old filmmaker praised Tom for his "total commitment" to the role and compared the tone to that of his 2014 movie 'Birdman'.

Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian movie The Secret Agent, which has been rumored to be a finalist for the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or, is having its stateside rights scooped up by Neon. A theatrical release is in the works for this year.

If the 1977-set political thriller takes home Cannes’ big prize, it will give Neon a sixth consecutive Palme d’Or win following last year’s Anora, Justine Triet’s 2023 winner Anatomy of a Fall, 2022’s Triangle of Sadness, 2021’s Titane and 2019’s Parasite. Out of that bunch, Anora and Parasite won Best Picture Oscars.

The Secret Agent premiered in competition at Cannes on Sunday to 100% fresh reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. The pic stars Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho and Hermila Guedes.

Set in Recife, Brazil in 1977, The Secret Agent follows Marcelo (Moura), a technology expert in his early 40s,...

Tom Cruise marks his anticipated Warner Bros. return with an untitled collaboration alongside decorated filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Though it was thought the upcoming project would see Cruise play an all-conquering global figure looking to prove he's the world's savior, Iñárritu suggests the movie isn't nearly as serious as it sounds.

Speaking with Deadline at the Cannes Film Festival about his film with Cruise, which recently wrapped production in London after beginning shooting last fall, Iñárritu insisted the movie is a "wild comedy" that proves Cruise's acting range and is a "character-driven" film that will engage audiences. "No, the thing that I can tell you. This is a wild comedy of catastrophic proportions. It’s insane. He makes me laugh every day. The range that I discovered working with Tom is unprecedented for me as a director. I was so fucking impressed and happy," the Oscar-winning director said.

Cruise's collaboration with Iñárritu,...

It was moving to watch Denzel Washington lope up to the Lumière stage at Cannes and tear up as he accepted his Honorary Palme d’Or from Cannes veteran Spike Lee Monday night at the “Highest 2 Lowest” premiere. It was a surprise to the actor, as he watched a clip reel that ranged from his four prior roles with Lee to “Philadelphia,” “Flight,” “The Book of Eli,” “The Hurricane,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “Fences,” and more.

Festival director Thierry Frémaux knows how to make the most of a Hollywood movie star, who flew into France and out again on his one day off from doing eight sold-out shows a week as Shakespeare’s “Othello” on Broadway. If the man looked weary, it’s understandable. At 70, he’s at the peak of his powers, and if the Oscar gods are smiling, he’ll land his third Oscar (after “Training Day” and...

Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi struck a chord with “It Was Just an Accident,” one of his most political movies, and his first film since being released from jail in Iran. The movie, which marks his comeback in competition at Cannes seven years after “Three Faces,” was greeted with a nearly eight-minute standing ovation at its premiere on Tuesday.

After the roaring applause died down, Panahi made an emotional speech in which he paid homage to the filmmakers who are currently imprisoned in Iran, saying he felt some guilt upon being released from prison. “I turned around and saw a very high wall. And behind this wall, all these other loved ones, all these people remained behind this wall,” he said. “So I wondered how I could be happy, how I could feel free, if they were still inside.”

He continued: “Today, I’m here with you, I receive this joy,...

Four years after winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducournau is back on the Croisette, debuting her latest Cannes Film Festival Competition entry Alpha. Inside the Palais late Monday local time, the genre-bending movie received a 12-minute ovation.

The response came after a disruption mid-screening, when some audience members in the gallery section began shouting to stop the movie. It turned out that a person was having a medical emergency. The movie continued, however, and the shouts abated after a minute or two. The person later was carried out on a stretcher.

Ducournau thanked all who supported her film after the screening, saying the team “all put a lot into the film.”

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Alpha centers on 13-year-old Alpha (Mélissa Boros), a troubled girl who lives with her single mom.

Michael Angelo Covino’s open marriage comedy “Splitsville” brought much-needed laughter to Cannes on Monday night, earning a warm six-minute ovation.

As the applause roared, director Covino teared up and Dakota Johnson comforted him with a hug as he kissed her on the cheek.

It was Johnson’s first time in Cannes, but as a Venice Film Festival veteran she’s no stranger to applause. Even still, she humbly waved off the cheers when the camera panned to her first. Then, when Arjona got her roar of approval, her boyfriend Jason Momoa could be seen clapping enthusiastically in the row behind her. Covina and Marvin shared a brotherly embrace as they celebrated another well-received collaboration.

“We need to keep making comedies for Cannes, plain and simple. Because laughter should be seen in a theater, not on a television screen,” said Covino.

The premiere drew several high-profile filmmakers, including Ari Aster...