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Ioncinema.com’s 2015 Cannes Film Festival coverage.

Standing Tall – Nicholas Bell

Tale of Tales – Blake Williams

Our Little Sister – Nicholas Bell

One Floor Review – Blake Williams

Son of Saul – Nicholas Bell

In the Shadow of Women – Blake Williams

Carol – Nicholas Bell

The Lobster – Nicholas Bell

The Sea of Trees – Nicholas Bell

Mia Madre – Nicholas Bell

Louder than Bombs – Nicholas Bell

Cemetery of Splendor – Blake Williams

Sicario – Nicholas Bell

Youth – Nicholas Bell

Love – Nicholas Bell

Chronic – Nicholas Bell

Valley of Love – Nicholas Bell

The Treasure – Blake Williams

Arabian Nights Volume 1: The Restless One – Blake Williams

Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One – Blake Williams

Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One – Blake Williams

Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Our Little Sister

Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Tale of Tales

Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: The Lobster

Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Son of Saul

Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Mia Madre...

For short films, the Tribeca Film Festival is a must. Winning the award for Narrative Short or Best Documentary Short automatically qualifies a film for the Academy Awards. Their track record isn’t too bad either. Shawn Christensen’s Curfew had its New York premiere at the Festival and went on to win the Academy Award.

This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...

Toronto’s Images Festival celebrates it’s 25th anniversary on April 12-21 at theaters, galleries and other venues all over the city. They are celebrating with a massive event with films and videos, live performances, installations, artist talks and other events.

Below is the lineup for Images’ specific film screening events and some live performances. The fest’s Opening Night film is John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, which takes a poetic look at the immigrant experience, particularly through using images of Caribbean and African migrants in the 1950s and ’60s.

The fest will close with a live score by alt-rock band Yo La Tengo accompanying the avant-garde scientific underwater films by French documentary filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Yo La Tengo has been performing “Sounds of Science” since they were commissioned for the project by the San Francisco Film Festival in 2001.

In between these two events is a lineup of feature-length experimental works,...