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After the big blow of Titane last year, all predictions were possible for the Palme d'Or this year. On the Croisette, tongues were starting to loosen between a young director who questions masculinity (Close), a thriller that confirms the South Korean wave (Decision to Leave), or the film by the Dardenne brothers which could obtain a historic treble with Tori and Lokita.

Imagine you are a young filmmaker walking the coveted red carpet of the world’s première festival for the first time. And getting thrown out.

The war had barely ended, the wounds and scars were still open and painful. The arts could be a powerful balm for all the pain that remained from the past horrors.

The water catastrophe in Flint, Michigan, a city located roughly one hour northeast of Detroit, was a manmade disaster of epic proportions — an event that rocked the conscience of an entire nation and even garnered international attention. Beginning in 2014, most of the city’s 100,000-plus residents suffered exposure to contaminated water.

Danish-Iranian director Ali Abbasi has made a fictional film about a real serial killer, who killed 16 women in Iran. It was the reactions to the killings that caught his interest.

Godland is both a love and a hate letter and a to Iceland and the country that colonized it. A Danish priest is challenged when seeking to set up a parish in the harsh Icelandic landscape in the late 19th century and languages and cultures clash.

Still very strong, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is again number 1 on the box office in France. The movie which follows Doctor Strange's journey into the unknown is directed by Sam Raimi and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, has grossed $2,342,660 this week reaching a total of $18,323,488.

Ruben Östlund has created another absurd dark comedy in which the über rich are puking and getting puked on onboard a luxury yacht. It is a satire on class and the superficiality of the fashion and influencer cultures.

Halfway through the Cannes premier of Crimes of the Future, dozens of people walked out. At the end of the screening, the movie received a seven-minute standing ovation.

After many great performances -  his spectacular tour de force in Goodfellas, among many  - Ray Liotta finally landed on the Croisette, with the cast and director of Killing Them Softly, in competition in 2012: Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Andrew Dominik. Three years later he would go back to Cannes, but this time for the MIPTV, the international market for TV and streamer content, with the miniseries Texas Rising.