Category: Film Festivals

Cannes Film Festival has announced its Critics’ Week lineup for 2025. – Left-Handed Girl, Shih-Ching Tsou – written by Sean Baker – Adam’s Interest, Laura Wandel (Playground) – Léa Drucker, Anamaria Vartolomei, Alex Descas – Nino, Pauline Loquès – Théodore Pellerin, Salomé Dewaels – Love Letters, Alice Douard – Ella Rumpf, Noémie Lvovsky, Monia Chokri, […]

Here is a list of films from the just announced Cannes 2025 lineup which already have US distributors:

2025 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced this morning. There are many highly anticipated films including ones from Julia Ducournau, Joachim Trier, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Richard Linklater, Carla Simón, Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Wes Anderson, Fatih Akin, Sebastián Lelio, Raoul Peck, Kirill Serebrennikov, Scarlett Johansson, and Harris Dickinson. COMPETITION: […]

WE BELIEVE YOU from Belgian filmmakers Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys is the most compelling legal drama I have seen since Anatomy of a Fall.  Myriem Akheddiou gives an earth-shattering performance as the mother of two fighting to retain custody of her kids after her ex-husband, who is accused of sexually assaulting his son, takes […]

Iván Fund’s Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize winner THE MESSAGE is a poetic magical realist road trip through rural Argentina in beautifully shot black and white.  Young actress Anika Bootz portraying a girl who can communicate with animals is a great find. Her character, also named Anika, travels the country with her guardians, who use […]

In Sarah Miro Fischer’s Berlinale drama THE GOOD SISTER, Rose (Marie Bloching) and her older brother Sam (Anton Weil) are inseparable. When a woman accuses him of rape and Rose is called to testify, her world is turned upside down. Fischer makes us uncomfortable by putting us in Rose’s shoes and asking the difficult questions.  There […]

In Frelle Petersen’s HOME SWEET HOME, divorced home care worker Sofie tries to balance her new job taking care of the elderly with parenting her 10-year-old daughter Clara. She starts the job enthusiastically, but the hectic nature of it and having to deal with difficult people soon take a toll on her.  Petersen could have […]

Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s thrilling whodunit HYSTERIA starts with a film shoot that unintentionally causes a scandal and becomes a layered mystery involving people’s prejudices towards one another.  We follow rookie crew member Elif, played convincingly by Devrim Lingnau, as she digs herself deeper into a hole by lying after losing the keys to the director’s […]

Florian Pochlatko’s How to be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World follows Pia as she gets out of psychiatric hospital and tries to adapt to life outside. With all the craziness going on around us at the moment, a film that questions the sanity of the world is certainly timely.  It starts out […]

Alexandra Makarová’s thrilling drama PERLA tells the story of a woman who fled the communist oppression in Czechoslovakia to raise her daughter in Vienna.  Rebeka Poláková’s delicate performance as Perla reflects her inner turmoil caused by not being able to let go of her past while trying to provide a better life for her daughter.  […]