There were people you expected to see in Cannes every year. The stars came and went, directors arrived surrounded by entourages, distributors appeared for three days and vanished again. But...

Dir: Karel Kachyňa | Thriller 1970 The Ear — The sound of a regime listening to itself There is something almost perversely appropriate about calling Karel Kachyňa’s The Ear a political thriller...

Dir: May el-Toukhy | Drama 2026 Woman Unknown is a gripping, beautifully controlled drama about a woman trapped by a past that refuses to stay buried. Set in Denmark just after...

Dir: Tom Nicoll | UK Drama 90’ A hunger for purpose and a flair for delusion animate Tom Nicoll’s assured debut, a sharp and empathetic portrait of young men adrift in...

Dir: Gábor Reisz | Hungary Drama 108’ There is something wonderfully Hungarian about discovering a disaster just when you are supposed to be leaving for holiday. For Kristóf, it begins with a...

Dir: Lav Diaz | Drama 2026 Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors places Lav Diaz firmly back in the territory he has made unmistakably his own: the Philippine past as a living...

Dir: Jelena Maksimović | Drama 2026 Jelena Maksimović’s debut fiction feature is an impressively scruffy piece of political cinema, though its ambitions occasionally outrun its execution. Set against Serbia’s student protests,...

Dir:  Grzegorz Dębowski | Drama 2026 There is something deliberately claustrophobic about Grzegorz Dębowski’s What Belongs to Others. The camera seems almost unwilling to give its characters room to breathe: handheld...

Dir: Tommaso Landucci | Drama Italy 2026 Tommaso Landucci’s fiction debut, 'Children of the Monkey' (I figli della scimmia), arrives in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar carrying the heavy weight of expectations. Luckily...