Festivals

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.

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.

Armageddon Time stars Golden Globe-winning actors Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, and Jeremy Strong. The drama is set in New York in the 80s.

After announcing their sponsorship of The American Pavilion, the center of business and hospitality for the American film community at this year’s 75th Cannes Film Festival, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) launched its first panel on May 23rd: “Cannes First Time: Conversation” with the new voices of Cannes. Moderated by HFPA member and award-winning journalist KJ Matthews, the panel featured three new talents talking about their first time on the Croisette as filmmakers.