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Title: To a Land UnknownSection: Directors' FortnightDirector: Mahdi FleifelLogline: After fleeing a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins are stranded in Athens, living in an underground limbo. Desperately seeking a way to reach Germany, they find themselves caught in an uncontrollable spiral.Distribut…

The Cannes Film Festival security guard who clashed with Kelly Rowland has once again gone viral on social media, this time for confronting Dominican star Massiel Taveras. Taveras walked the red carpet sporting a white dress with a dress that had an image of Jesus Christ. As the actress and model…

This afternoon, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof debuted his latest feature, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, in Competition here at the Cannes Film Festival to a nearly 15-minute standing ovation. The fact that the filmmaker was in attendance is especially poignant after he fled his home country…

Seemingly from out of nowhere, actor turned director Gilles Lellouche throws a Molotov Flanby into the Competition with only his second feature, a terrific and unexpectedly potent piece of genre filmmaking that could, to avoid spoilers, be described as a kind of mash-up of Badlands and La Haine, as if…

After the extraordinary triple whammy of Emelia Perez, The Substance and Anora, here comes Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes with a blast of cinematic chloroform to calm the Cannes Competition down a touch. A talky, experimental odyssey through the Far East, it deals with issues of colonialism and…

Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino ascended the red carpet here this evening for his latest Cannes competition entry, Parthenope, which was welcomed by a nine-minute standing ovation. “This movie is a celebration of the journey of my life,” the humbled filmmaker told the crowd. "The movie is a…

Sean Baker's previous film, 2022’s Red Rocket (2022), began with *NSYNC's Spotify-topping "Bye Bye Bye," but Anora starts with the slightly lesser-known "Greatest Days" by British boy band Take That. Musically, it's a bold choice, at odds with the frenetic spirit of what for over half its running time is…

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, directed and written by Raoul Peck and narrated by Lakeith Stanfield, invites us into the life and voice of one of South Africa’s influential yet unsung heroes of photojournalism and activism. Through words and imagery, this…

Demi Moore made her debut in the Cannes Film Festival's official selection Sunday evening with the competition title The Substance. The much-anticipated blood-splattered horror thriller from French director Coralie Fargeat was met with 13-minute ovation, the longest for a title so far at this year’s…

Have you ever dreamed about being a better version of yourself? With her second film, Coralie Fargeat not only addresses this question but takes aim at ageism and sexism in the entertainment industry with a riotous, dreamlike horror-thriller that ends in a…

In the Moscow Times' obituary for Eduard Limonov, who died four years ago aged 77, writer Mark Galeotti summed up the poet-turned-politician in two simple sentences: "Was Limonov a visionary or a poser, an artist or a politician, a leftist or a rightist? The…

Ghost story, body horror, feminist comedy and a freshly minted edition of that very French subgenre, How to Get Rid of a Troublesome Corpse: Noémie Merlant, familiar as a fine actress from Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, packs a good deal into her sophomore feature as director, The Balconettes…