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“Sometimes opposite things happen at the same time in one's own life, like a strange morning – and at the same time, a rebirth,” says writer/director Mia Hanson-Løve (Things to Come, All is Forgiven) on the impetus of One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) which premiered in the Director’s Fortnight at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. Speaking after the screening, she explained the very personal narrative of the film which stars Léa Seydoux, Nicole Garcia and Pascal Greggory.

Given both its title and the overlap in subject matter, a viewer could understandably be forgiven for taking a sidelong glance at A Taste of Whale and expecting an emotional companion piece to 2009’s The Cove. That film, helmed by Louie Psihoyos, found both the director and former Flipper trainer turned activist Richard O’Barry embedding with an elite team of eco-warriors and free divers as part of a covert mission to penetrate a tightly guarded fishing bay in Taiji, Japan, and expose the community’s annual slaughter of tens of thousands of dolphins.

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.