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Just as the Toronto International Film Festival prepares for its 50th ceremony, Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” celebrates 50 years since it swam into theaters and changed the Hollywood blockbuster for good. Now, with Friday’s announcement of the festival’s TIFF Classics and TIFF Wavelengths lineups, the two anniversaries are colliding in Toronto this September.

The festival announced its TIFF Classics and TIFF Wavelengths programs Friday morning, part of a string of slate announcements they made throughout the week. TIFF Classics, in its 50th edition at the festival, brings iconic older entries from world cinema to audiences. TIFF Wavelengths — now in its 25th edition — is “the festival’s steadfast visionary selection highlighting the best of international cinema, the experimental and avant-garde, and contemporary art,” according to a press release.

One of the films to be screened in the TIFF Classics section is “Jaws,” celebrating its 50th anniversary with a 35mm Canadian exclusive release.

The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its Wavelengths program for artist-driven experimental films that includes the latest work from directors Lav Diaz, Kahlil Joseph and Kamal Aljafari.

The sidebar has seven features in all, including North American premieres for Diaz’s Magellan, where Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal plays the titular Portuguese explorer in the epic historical drama that bowed in Cannes; Ben Rivers’ Mare’s Nest, about a young girl traveling through a dystopian world without adults; Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, where a father searchs for his missing daughter in Georgia in a film shot on an antiquated Sony Ericsson phone; director Nicolás Pereda’s political thriller Copper; and The Seasons, the solo directorial feature debut for Maureen Fazendeiro.

There’s a world premiere for Rhayne Vermette’s Levers, a drama about humanity’s uneasy relationship with the natural world; and a Canadian premiere for Kahlil Joseph’s...

Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled the 25th edition of its Wavelengths line-up celebrating international, experimental and avant-garde cinema and contemporary art.

A roster of eight features, a special pairing, and three shorts programmes brings the world premiere of Rhayne Vermette’s Levers, the follow-up to her TIFF Amplify Voices award-winning Ste. Anne (2021).

There are North American premieres for Lav Diaz’s adventure and Cannes Premiere entry Magellan starring Gael García Bernal, and Alexandre Koberidze’sDry Leaf, which shot on an antiquated Sony Ericsson phone and gets its world premiere in Locarno next week.

The line-up features a tribute to avant-garde filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa,...

With many of the biggest fall festival premieres officially on the calendar, every subsequent lineup announcement leans more and more towards the sicko cinephiles among us. You probably already knew that the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival would feature “The Sound of Falling,” “The Smashing Machine,” and “Frankenstein,” but the newly announced Wavelengths lineup promises to offer plenty of hidden gems you’ve never heard of. And of course, there are a few favorites from other 2025 festivals that Toronto audiences haven’t had a chance to see.

The famously avant-garde section of the festival features nine features and 14 shorts from around the world, each of which pushes the boundaries of cinematic storytelling in some way. Highlights include Kahlil Joseph’s genre-bending art piece “Blknws: Terms & Conditions” (which premiered to rave reviews at Sundance), Ben Rivers’ “Mare’s Nest” (which will also be playing NYFF), and the Gael García Bernal-led historical epic “Magellan.

Ahead of the 63rd New York Film Festival kicking off next month, taking place September 26 through October 13, the Main Slate has now been unveiled, featuring 34 of the most acclaimed and anticipated films of the year.

Highlights include the world premieres of Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai and the previously announced Bradly Cooper’s Is This Thing On? as Closing Night, alongside new films by Bi Gan, Kelly Reichardt, Kathryn Bigelow, Lucrecia Martel, Christian Petzold, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Joachim Trier, Oliver Laxe, Kent Jones, Noah Baumbach, Jafar Panahi, Pietro Marcello, Laura Poitras, and more.

NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim stated: “​​Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today. Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal,...

George Clooney’s “Jay Kelly,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” and Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice” have been added to the New York Film Festival lineup.

This year’s main slate will showcase 34 films, including Cannes prizewinners, Sundance darlings and Venice premieres.

“​​Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today,” said NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim. “Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal, expressions of unease and joy, feats of imagination and commemoration. I am particularly struck by the diversity of approaches and forms among the films in this Main Slate, which affirms that the art of cinema is more than capable of thriving, even in difficult times.”

As previously announced, New York Film Festival will open on Sept.

New York Film Festival (September 26-October 13) has announced the main slate for its 63rd edition, with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind on the roster.

Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Claire Denis’ The Fence, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection are also in the 34-strong line-up, alongside Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai – a metacinema centred on a production of Medea –one of two world premieres in selection alongside Bradley Cooper’s previously announced closing night film Is This Thing On?

As also previously announced,...

New York Film Festival, has unveiled the Main Slate of its 63rd edition with prize winners from top fests led by Cannes from Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (Palme d’Or) and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (Grand Prix) to Oliver Laxe’s Sirât and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling (joint Jury Prize winners), Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection (Special Award).

From Berlin, Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Silver Bear for best leading performance for Rose Byrne) and Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 (Silver Bear for best screenplay). Eleven Main Slate films are set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Kent Jones’s Late Fame and Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice.

NYFF’s 34 Main Slate films from 26 countries feature two world premieres,...

After steadily rolling out some of its gala heavy-hitters, the New York Film Festival has today announced its full main slate lineup, including new films from Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Kahlil Joseph, Joachim Trier, Ira Sachs, and many more.

This year’s main slate includes films from 26 countries, among them two world premieres (including Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Thing On?” and Ulrich Köhler’s “Gavagai”), plus eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres.

The festival has also programmed a number of hits from other fests, including Cannes prizewinners like Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât,” Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent,” and Bi Gan’s “Resurrection.” Berlin and Sundance hits are also on offer, including Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and Radu Jude’s “Kontinental ’25.

New York Film Festival (September 26-October 13) has announced the main slate for its 63rd edition, with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind on the roster.

Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Claire Denis’ The Fence, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection are also in the 34-strong line-up, alongside Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai – a metacinema centred on a production of Medea –one of two world premieres in selection alongside Bradley Cooper’s previously announced closing night film Is This Thing On?

As also previously announced,...

The 63rd New York Film Festival’s Main Slate will include new films from Noah Baumbach, Jafar Panahi, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook and more. Film at Lincoln center announced the 34 Main Slate films Tuesday.

The movies come from 26 countries and include two world, eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres. Some titles will first debut at other festivals. Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” Park’s “No Other Choice” and Kent Jones’ “Late Fame” are all playing the 82nd Venice Film Festival before crossing the Atlantic to New York City.

Cannes winners in the Main Slate include Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner “It Was Just an Accident”; Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” which took the Grand Prix; Jury Prize winners Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât” and Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling”; Best Director- and Best Actor-winning “The Secret Agent” from Kleber Mendonça Filho; and Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,...

The awards circuit is making a key stop in the Big Apple this year.

On Tuesday, the New York Film Festival announced 34 films for their main slate lineup.

The Main Slate will showcase films from 26 countries, featuring two world premieres, eight North American premieres, and 13 U.S. premieres, including award‑winning titles from Cannes and Berlin. The lineup includes Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival) and Rose Byrne, recipient of the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at the 2025 Berlinale for Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

Also featured is Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, which is set to premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival before releasing on Netflix

The NYFF will open with Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield,...

La 70ª edición de la Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid revela sus primeras películas a concurso. © Seminci

A varios meses de que la Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid (Seminci) levante el telón de su 70ª edición –que se celebrará del 24 de octubre al 1 de noviembre de 2025–, el certamen ya ha comenzado a perfilar su Sección Oficial con el anuncio de los ocho primeros títulos que competirán por la Espiga de Oro, el máximo galardón del Festival.

Luc y Jean-Pierre Dardenne abren esta primera tanda de confirmaciones con Recién nacidas (Young Mothers). Los hermanos belgas ganaron el premio al Mejor Guion en el Festival de Cannes 2025 con esta mirada luminosa sobre la vida de cinco madres adolescentes en un centro de acogida. Los Dardenne aspiran, así, a repetir la hazaña de 1996, cuando conquistaron la Espiga de Oro con La promesa.

Otra presencia destacada es la del cineasta Sergei Loznitsa,...

Boutique sales agency Bendita Film Sales, has boarded “Dance of the Living” (“La Lucha”), the second feature as a director of José Alayón and an awaited title in the burgeoning Canary Island homegrown film industry uniting its talents and now bound for its world premiere at San Sebastian’s prestigious New Directors strand.

“Dance of the Living” is written by producer-writer-director Marina Alberti (“Aitana”) and Samuel M. Delgado, director of the Alayón-produced Venice Critics’ Week title “They Carry Death,” both of whom are Canary Island-based. It unspools on the blowsy desert Canary Island of Fuerteventura, where Miguel and daughter Mariana struggle to move forward after the death of wife and mother Pilar. Their whole world evolves around traditional Canarian wrestling. But Miguel’s has a chronic knee injury and Mariana rages at the world, pushing her to break combat rules.

“As the championship final approaches, father and daughter find themselves on uncertain ground,...

Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has revealed 30 titles selected for the 2025 Asian Project Market (Apm), including upcoming features produced by Indian star Alia Bhatt, All We Imagine As Light director Payal Kapadia and Twilight Of The Warriors filmmaker Soi Cheang.

The co-production and financing market, which runs as part of Biff’s Asian Contents and Film Market (Acfm), is set to take place from September 20-23 in Busan, South Korea. This year’s Apm received a record-breaking 455 submissions from 44 countries.

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The selection spans a broad range of themes, including social inequality, family love,...

With more and more films crossing borders and getting viewed in countries miles away from the land it was made, the idea that only a certain kind of film is made in a particular country and is thematically, aesthetically, and stylistically unique to that particular land is challenged in today’s highly connected world. These films from foreign lands not only affect how people watch or consume cinema but also how people make films.

Although such cinematic trade and influences had always been a part of any country’s cinema culture, earlier it was films only by certain masters of ‘world’ cinema that became easily available to watch, courtesy of film societies and film clubs. This, however, was limited only to connoisseurs of cinema who had access to such societies and clubs. This has changed with the advent of, firstly, the internet and various legal (and illegal) ways of accessing films,...

“Hell is waiting for you. I’ll be your nightmare forever,” Yoshii (Masaki Suda) is told at gunpoint in one of the most thrilling sequences of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s career in “Cloud.”

It’s a line, though, that could apply across the Japanese filmmaker’s work, whether the specters in the machine stalking a post-Y2K digital realm in “Pulse” or the elusive serial killer who seems to operate by hypnosis in “Cure,” one of the very best horror movies ever made.

“Cloud” is Kurosawa’s first movie to weld his techno anxieties to a Western framework, as his movie about a sociopath-adjacent internet reseller and hoarder culminates in what I wouldn’t quite call a glorious shootout, but certainly the grandest action set piece yet from the filmmaker. “Cloud” is out in U.S. theaters from Sideshow/Janus Films on July 18, and IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer below.

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Janus Films has picked up the North American rights to Sergei Loznitsa’s Cannes competition drama Two Prosecutors.

The Ukrainian director’s Soviet-era thriller set during Stalin’s Great Purge in 1937 earned the François Chalais Prize in Cannes. Two Prosecutors centers on a law school grad who tries as a young prosecutor takes on corruption in the Soviet system and winds up facing the consequences.

The drama is based on the novella by Soviet scientist and political prisoner Georgy Demidov and stars Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoli Beliy, Andris Keišs and Vytautas Kaniušonis.

“Impeccably directed and impressively acted, this slow-burn story of political injustice is filled to the brim with atmosphere — specifically the stifling, claustrophobic atmosphere of the U.S.S.R. at the height of Stalin’s Great Purge,” The Hollywood Reporter film critic Jordan Mintzer said of the historical drama in his Cannes festival review.

Director Loznitsa in...

The Cannes Film Festival is over, and while the Marché Du Film is as booming as ever with exciting packages of future films, the main action has been for those films playing in competition, all of which could make a big splash at the box office or the awards season race for the right buyer. Last year’s “The Substance” was acquired by Mubi before it landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination and made $77.3 million worldwide.

Here are the 13 films we predicted ahead of the festival could find homes quickly, several of which already have. We’ll update the below list with all the acquisitions as they come in.

“Two Prosecutors”

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Distributor: Janus Films

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Buzz: In the return to fiction filmmaking for the first time since 2018 from the “Donbass” and “The Invasion” director, Sergei Loznitsa adapted a suppressed novella set during Stalin’s Great Purge...

It seems that the spirit of Lav Diaz‘s filmmaking is still going strong in the Philippines (even if this film is actually an Italian production), and who better to channel it once more than one of his former assistants? Liryc Dela Cruz, who worked with the master of long and slow cinema in “Norte, the End of History” and “Prologue to the Great Desaparecido”, now presents his own vision. Interestingly, Dela Cruz keeps his work at just 65 minutes. “Where the Night Stands Still” is currently screening in Shanghai.

Far removed from the American Dream, the Filipino dream, particularly for those working abroad as domestic helpers, often culminates in being included in an employer’s will, one of the few paths to upward mobility. This is exactly what Lila achieves after working for over three decades in Italy: she inherits the very home she once maintained, a grand, decaying manor...

Prime Cruz’s supernatural horror feature “The Sacrifice” has wrapped principal photography in the Philippines and revealed its complete cast lineup.

The production has unveiled the full cast joining acclaimed filmmaker Lav Diaz in a rare acting appearance. Leading the ensemble are Lovi Poe, Enchong Dee and Timothy Granaderos.

The newly revealed supporting cast includes Max Collins, Louie Chapman, Pokwang, and Tommy Alejandrino.

The film, scripted by Jerrold Tarog, follows a group of vloggers who venture into a remote Philippine village in search of a mysterious substance harvested only once a decade. Their content-driven expedition transforms into a nightmare as they become entangled in sacred rites and face off against an ancient entity from Filipino folklore.

Cruz previously helmed “Sleepless” and “The Other Wife.”

Montgomery Blencowe and Mark Stewart (“Escape Plan”) are producing under C’est Lovi Productions and Kind Hearts Entertainment, with Cmb Film Services also on board. Jaime G. Baltazar...

Films by Richard Linklater, Oliver Laxe and Joachim Trier are among 53 titles selected by the Munich International Film Festival for its four main competition strands CineMasters, CineVision, CineRebels and CineCoPro.Munich runs from June 27 to July 6.

CineMasters

Oliver Laxe’s Sirat will be joined by another two Cannes 2025 Official Competition titles - Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague and Mascha Schilinski’s award-winning Sound Of Falling - to screen in the CineMasters competition for the €15,000 CineMasters Award. The prize is being sponsored for the first time this year by Dorint Hotels & Resorts and is presented to the director of the best international film.

Exclusive: Le Pacte has closed several deals for Left-Handed Girl, Shih-Ching Tsou’s Taiwanese drama that premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes and is produced by Anora director Sean Baker.

The film has been acquired for Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Spain (Avalon), Benelux (September Film), Japan (Starcat), South Korea (The Coup Distribution), Poland (So Films), Scandinavia (Selmer Media), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Baltics (Kino Pavasaris), Greece (Cinobo) and Israel (New Cinema).

It follows a deal announced yesterday with Netflix, which scooped up rights for most of the world including North America and the UK.

‘Left-Handed Girl’ review

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Exclusive: Le Pacte has closed several deals for Left-Handed Girl, Shih-Ching Tsou’s Taiwanese drama that premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes and is produced by Anora director Sean Baker.

The film has been acquired for Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Spain (Avalon), Benelux (September Film), Japan (Starcat), South Korea (The Coup Distribution), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Poland (So Films), Scandinavia (Selmer Media), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Baltics (Kino Pavasaris), Greece (Cinobo), and Israel (New Cinema).

It follows a deal announced yesterday with Netflix, which scooped up rights for most of the world including North America and the UK.

‘Left-Handed Girl...

Janus Films has acquired another movie from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, this time in Lav Diaz’s historical drama “Magellan.”

The film stars Gael García Bernal as the Portuguese explorer and premiered out of competition last month.

“We are thrilled that Lav Diaz’s work will reach a wider North American audience than ever before through his mesmerizing ‘Magellan,’ a unique collaboration between the modern master of Filipino filmmaking and one of the finest, most soulful actors of his generation,” Janus Films shared in a Tuesday statement. “A vivid slice of vital history rendered on a grand scale, ‘Magellan’ is visually ravishing and profoundly moving.”

Janus Films negotiated the deal with Luxbox. “Magellan” was produced by Portugal’s Rosa Filmes and co-produced by Spain’s Andergraun Films and El Viaje Filmes, the Philippines’ Black Cap Pictures and Ten17P, France’s Lib Films and AKP21 and Taiwan’s Volos Films.

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Janus Films has picked up all North American rights to Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s historical drama Magellan that just screened in Cannes Premiere.

‘Magellan’ review

Gael García Bernal stars as the 16th century eponymous Portuguese explorer who upon reaching the Malayan Archipelago becomes obsessed with conquest and conversion, triggering violent uprisings.

Magellan marks the first feature in colour from Diaz since 2013 Un Certain Regard Award selection Norte, The End Of History. His credits include 2014 Locarno Golden Leopard winner From What Is Before and 2016 Venice Golden Lion winner The Woman Who Left.

Portugal’s Rosa Filmes produced Magellan, while Andergraun Films...

by Jean-Marc Thérouanne

The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema salutes fraternally the great Iranian director Jafar Panahi, whose film «un simple accident» won the prestigious Palme d’or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. This well-deserved award crowns a humanist thriller that poses the serious question of the possibility of the pardon of the oppressed towards his executioner to achieve national reconciliation, on condition of repentance of the latter.

Jafar Panahi is a giant of the world cinema, multi-award-winning author of eleven feature films and seven shorts. He was president of the jury at the 10th Fica Vesoul 2004.

“Simple accident” also wins the citizenship award.

With Shu Qi, main actress in « Résurrection » by Bi Gan (Crédit photo J-m Thérouanne)

The Vesoul Iff Asian Cinema also extends its warm congratulations to Chinese director Bi Gan for the Special Prize of the Cannes 2025 jury, awarded to his film «Résurrection». After...

By the standards of Filipino formalist and running-time maximalist Lav Diaz, his latest opus “Magellan” qualifies as a veritable blockbuster. A grand-scale historical biopic on a universally known figure, headlined by an international star in Gael García Bernal, it’s Diaz’s first feature since his 2013 breakout “Norte, the End of History” to be shot in color, and one of his shortest to boot: just 160 minutes, no sweat for faithful Lav-ers who sat through the 10-hour-plus “Evolution of a Filipino Family” and other Diaz megamovies. “Accessible” is a relative term when it comes to this most simultaneously expansive and ascetic of filmmakers, but this is as close as it gets.

Which is to say that while “Magellan” reps Diaz’s best shot at general arthouse distribution in some time, it’s no artistic compromise. The spirit of slow cinema is alive and languid in this stunningly mounted, politically rigorous work,...

Filipino director Lav Diaz is in pre-production with “An Amazon,” following the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival of “Magellan,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal.

The project will be shot in Diaz’s native Philippines. Diaz’ Sine Olivia Pilipinas will produce the film with the French production company Silverbelt Films, founded by Pierre-Yves Bezat, who previously worked at Films Boutique.

The new film is based on a little known short story written by Alexandre Dumas. It will be the first film that Diaz will make in English, and will include some internationally well-known actors among its cast.

“An Amazon” is the story of a young man who meets a mysterious and masked woman during a ball. She refuses to disclose her identity, and swears to kill him if he reveals their affair.

Bezat said: “For ‘An Amazon,’ Lav Diaz was extremely inspired since our very first discussions around this deep and unknown story by Dumas,...

If “Gael Garcia Bernal as Magellan” sounds to you like a pretty cool Netflix series, you have never seen a film by Filipino auteur and slow-cinema master Lav Diaz. Known on the international festival circuit for his epically minimalist features with bladder-busting running times, his movies are challenging, high-art dramas made for a very select few — the opposite of the flashy, Adhd-friendly content found on streamers.

Premiering in Cannes, where Diaz’s most awarded film, Norte, the End of History, played in Un Certain Regard back in 2013, Magellan (Magalhães) is not for the impatient viewer who likes their explorer stories action-packed and easy to digest.

And yet this exquisitely crafted feature may be one of the director’s most accessible works to date. It clocks in at only 160 minutes (Diaz’s films often run twice that long, if not more), but, more importantly, provides an honest glimpse at a figure...

Lav Diaz’s Magellan unfolds across 156 brooding minutes in a classic 4:3 frame, a chamber for souls and corpses alike. Here, Gael García Bernal embodies the infamous Portuguese navigator with a haunted restraint, his beard and bearing betraying the toll of obsession.

Opposite him, Ângela Azevedo’s Beatriz drifts through the periphery—her silent resilience a counterpoint to Magellan’s fevered purpose. Set against the humid jungles and windswept coasts of early 16th-century Southeast Asia, the film charts two great voyages: Magellan’s campaign in Malacca and his Spanish-backed quest for the Spice Islands, ending in the Philippines.

Diaz’s pacing is deliberate, each long take lingering on aftermath rather than spectacle, while bursts of tighter editing snap us from ritual chants to the washed-up bodies of a nameless battle. This is a film about ambition’s hunger—and the human toll left in its wake.

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Despite our best efforts to go into a film completely blind, sometimes we’ll catch online chatter or a snippet of a promotional interview that inevitably colors something about our first viewing of an anticipated movie. It could be gossip about stars not getting along that might affect your perception of their onscreen rapport, or the knowledge that a director was replaced by someone else partway into production due to creative differences.

In the arthouse world, a perhaps surprising example of game-changing pre-release context has emerged with Filipino independent filmmaker Lav Diaz and his latest movie, “Magellan.” But befitting the man behind several of the longest narrative films on record (e.g. “Evolution of a Filipino Family”), the bombshell in question is that “Magellan” — one of his shortest features of late at 160-ish minutes — was apparently intended to be nine hours in length. And that a nine-hour version may still be on the way,...

Ferdinand Magellan was never regarded as a great man of history, and Lav Diaz’s surprisingly conventional––if still hypnotically paced––biopic uses genre structure to act as a further repudiation of his legacy. Born out of a long-in-the-works project focused on Magellan’s wife Beatriz, Magellan now functions as an unusual companion-of-sorts: a work you couldn’t mistake for that of any other filmmaker, but one that feels incomplete by definition, frequently making big temporal leaps in a manner that feels at odds with the more cautiously paced work we’ve come to expect from Diaz. At my pre-Cannes screening, the film’s PR representative remarked that every time they showed a work-in-progress cut, it wildly fluctuated in length compared to the last, and the film’s final, Croisette-bound form still has a shadow cast over it by the reported nine-hour, black-and-white film from Beatriz’s perspective which was shot in tandem.

The first official image has been unveiled of acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz in “The Sacrifice,” a psychological horror film currently in production in the Philippines.

The award-winning director has intermittently stepped in front of the camera before. The newly released still offers a glimpse of Diaz as Pilo, a quiet and enigmatic jungle guide who leads a group of vloggers deep into remote terrain steeped in ritual and folklore.

Known for directing international festival favorites like “Norte, the End of History” and “The Woman Who Left” — which won the Golden Lion at Venice in 2016 — Diaz now opens up about his character in the upcoming thriller.

“I love the character. He’s a conflicted person — he paints a picture of the type of person we see every day. The greatest struggle in life is how to be a good human being, and I think Pilo embodies that conflict,” Diaz says.

Catalonia will cast a large shadow over this year’s Cannes. Here’s a look at its titles in the festival and accompanying Marché du Film.

Cannes Festival

“Magellan,” Lav Díaz

Screening in Cannes Premiere, Gael Garcia Bernal-starrer “Magalhães” is a historical epic about the life and voyages of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The film is a collaboration among multiple production companies, including the Catalan-based Andergraun Films, and showcases Lav Díaz’s distinct, slow-cinema style in tackling historical material.

Sales: Luxbox

“Romería,” Carla Simón (Spain)

Part of Berlin Golden Bear-winner Simón’s autobiographical trilogy, “Romería” follows Marina, a young woman adopted at a young age, who travels to Vigo to meet her biological father’s family for the first time. The film continues the deeply personal storytelling tradition that won Simón international acclaim with “Alcarràs” and “Summer 1993.”

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“Sirat,” Oliver Laxe

After his Cannes Un Certain...

Triple Palme d’Or nominated French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello whose latest daring work “The Beast” was one of the hottest titles in the 2023 Venice competition, will be the guest of honor at the second Ecam Forum co-production platform, which will unspool over June 10-13 in Madrid.

On the heels of U.S. indie producer Ted Hope who kicked off Ecam Forum’s masterclass sessions with standout industry voices in 2024, Bonello will discuss his visionary work on June 12 at the Cineteca Madrid. Concurrently, the screening of three of his defining works –Cannes official entries “Tiresia” (2003), “House of Tolerance” (2011) and Directors’ Fortnight’s “Zombi Child” (2019) – will serve as entry points to his cinematic journey.

The Bonello tribute is organized by Ecam Forum – the new industry event spearheaded by Madrid’s prestigious film school Ecam – together with Cineteca Madrid and Filmadrid Festival, in conjunction with collection agent Dama and the Institut Français in Spain.

Sales agency Luxbox has closed a distribution deal for France with Nour Films on Lav Diaz’s “Magellan,” starring Gael García Bernal, which has its world premiere in the Cannes Premiere section of the Cannes Film Festival.

The film, set in the 16th century, follows Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator. He rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East.

The voyage is exhausting beyond expectations, with hunger and mutiny pushing the crew to their limits. Upon reaching the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, Magellan’s mind changes. He becomes obsessed with conquest and conversion, which sparks violent uprisings beyond his control.

The Nour Films team said in a joint statement: “With rare evocative power, ‘Magellan’ stands out as a new masterpiece by Lav Diaz.

Sales agency Luxbox has come on board Lav Diaz’s historical drama “Magellan,” which stars Gael García Bernal. The film will have its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival’s Premiere section.

Diaz’s previous films include “The Woman Who Left,” which won Venice’s Golden Lion in 2016, and “From What Is Before,” which won Locarno’s Golden Leopard in 2014.

The film, set in the 16th century, follows Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator. He rebels against the power of the King of Portugal, who doesn’t support his dream of discovering the world, and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East.

The voyage is exhausting beyond expectations, with hunger and mutiny pushing the crew to their limits. Upon reaching the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, Magellan’s mind changes. He becomes obsessed with conquest and conversion, which sparks violent uprisings beyond his control.

Gold Derby's top news stories for April 23, 2025.

Die, My Love and The Chronology of Water added to Cannes lineup

The Cannes Film Festival announced several additions to its 2025 lineup, including Lynne Ramsay's psychological thriller Die, My Love starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, which will screen in competition, and Kristen Stewart's feature directorial debut, biographical drama The Chronology of Water, which will premiere as part of Un Certain Regard.

Other additions include Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t in the midnights section; Saeed Roustaee’s Mother and Child in competition; Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Love Me Tender, Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Poeta and Pedro Pinho’s O Riso E A Faca (Le Rire et le Couteau) in Un Certain Regard; Kōji Fukada’s Renai Saiban, Hlynur Pálmason’s Ástin Sem Eftir Er, Lav Diaz’s Magalhães in premiere; and Vincent Maël Cardona’s Le Roi Soleil in midnights.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup just got a little splashier.

Kristen Stewart’s long-awaited directorial debut The Chronology of Water and the Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson-starring Die, My Love from director Lynne Ramsay have been added to the schedule. Stewart’s film, which stars Imogen Poots, will screen in the fest’s Un Certain Regard section while Die, My Love will be in the fest’s competition section.

Also joining the competition section is Woman and Child, the latest title from Iranian director Saeed Roustaee. The filmmaker previously competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2022 fest with his film Leila’s Brothers. Elsewhere, Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t! will premiere in the fest’s Midnight section. The road trip movie stars Aubrey Plaza, Margaret Qualley and Chris Evans.

The latest title joins an already announced line-up that includes films from Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Julie Ducournau and Spike Lee.

As is tradition, the Cannes Film Festival has announced late-breaking additions to its 2025 festival lineup, with new films coming from Lynne Ramsay, and Saeed Roustayi.

The 78th edition will now include Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, in the competition. All the Scottish director’s previous films have premiered at Cannes; the dark martial comedy/horror is her first film since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here” won the Cannes Best Screenplay prize. Here, Jennifer Lawrence plays a wife unraveling in the country, and married to Pattinson’s character. Lakeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek also star in this adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel. Ramsay wrote the script with Enda Walsh and Alice Birch.

The film made it into Cannes just in time as hoped, and this means we’ll be seeing Lawrence and Pattinson standing in front of glittering flash bulbs on the Palais red carpet.

After the initial main announcement and sidebars, the full Cannes Film Festival lineup has now come into focus with 16 additions today. Highlights include Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, in competition, while elsewhere Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology of Water, Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t, Hlynur Palmason’s The Love That Remains, Koji Fukada’s Love on Trial, Lav Diaz’s Magellan, and Pedro Pinho’s I Only Rest in the Storm have been added.

See below via Screen Daily.

Competition

Die My Love, dir. Lynne Ramsay

Mother And Child, dir. Saeed Roustaee

Un Certain Regard

Love Me Tender, dir. Anna Cazenave Cambet

A Poet, dir. Simon Mesa Soto

I Only Rest In The Storm, dir. Pedro Pinho

The Chronology Of Water, dir. Kristen Stewart

Cannes Premiere

Love On Trial dir. Koji Fukada

The Love That Remains, dir. Hlynur Palmason

Magellan,...

The Cannes Film Festival has added several titles to the official selection, including Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” a thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, as well as Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water” in Un Certain Regard and Ethan Coen’s “Honey Don’t!” in the midnights section.

Other additions to the official selection are Saeed Roustaee’s “Woman and Child” in competition; Anna Cazenave Cambet’s “Love Me Tender,” Simón Mesa Soto’s “Un Poeta” and Pedro Pinho’s “O Riso E A Faca (Le Rire et le Couteau”) in Un Certain Regard; “Kōji Fukada’s “Renai Saiban,” Hlynur Pálmason’s “Ástin Sem Eftir Er,” Lav Diaz’s “Magalhães” in premiere; and Vincent Maël Cardona’s “Le Roi Soleil” in midnights.

“Die, My Love” was screened for the Cannes committee after the festival’s official press conference on April 10, during which chief Thierry Fremaux unveiled the lineup.

The Cannes Film Festival has added a fresh round of titles to its 78th edition, including Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love and Saeed Roustaee’s Woman And Child which will play in the main competition. (scroll down for full list)

Ramsay’s dark comedy thriller Die, My Love transposes Ariana Harwicz’s novel about a woman living in the French countryside who develops severe postpartum depression, to Montana and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

Roustaee’s Woman and Child, is the first film from the Iranian director since his 2022 Cannes Palme d’Or contender Leila’s Brothers.

The contemporary family drama of revenge and forgiveness stars Parinaz Izadyar (Law of Tehran) as a widowed nurse struggling with her rebellious son. Tensions reach a peak during the betrothal ceremony with her new boyfriend, but when a tragic accident occurs, she finds herself confronting feelings of betrayal as she seeks justice.

The Cannes Film Festival has updated its 2025 Official Selection with 16 new films, including two new Competition titles.

Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love and Saeed Roustaee’s WomanAnd Child join the Competition line-up, bringing it to 21 films.

Scroll down for the full list of new titles

The Un Certain Regard line-up adds a further four films, including Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology Of Water, and is now at 20 films.

The festival has also added Ethan Coen’s Focus Features title Honey Don’t!starring Margaret Qualley as a Midnight Screening; and Hlynur Palmason’s The Love That Remains and...

Production has commenced on the psychological horror film The Sacrifice in the Philippines, Deadline has learned.

It follows a group of travel vloggers who find themselves in a remote village haunted by ancient rituals and a terrifying legend.

Timothy Granaderos (“13 Reasons Why”) stars along with filmmaker Lav Diaz (The Woman Who Left), Lovi Poe, Enchong Dee, and Marietta Subong.

Supported by the Film Development Council of the Philippines, Prime Cruz directs from a script by Jerrold Tarog.

Poe also serves as producer alongside Montgomery Blencowe (Escape Plan 2: Hades) under the C’est Lovi Productions banner, with Mark Stewart (Escape Plan) producing for Kind Hearts Entertainment.

Lovi Poe in ‘Owe My Love’

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Exclusive: The Sacrifice, a psychological horror flick from filmmaker Prime Cruz and led by Filipino actress and singer Lovi Poe (Seasons) has begun production in the Philippines.

Veteran director Lav Diaz also stars in the flick alongside Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why) and Enchong Dee (GomBurZa). Marietta Subong also stars.

The film follows a group of travel vloggers who find themselves in a remote village haunted by ancient rituals and a terrifying legend.

Directed by Cruz from an original screenplay penned by Jerrold Tarog, The Sacrifice is produced by Montgomery Blencowe (Heist) and Poe under the C’est Lovi Productions banner, with Mark Stewart (Escape Plan) serving as producer under Kind Hearts Entertainment. The film has support from the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp). Casting is by Thomas Sullivan.

The film will be shot entirely on location in the Philippines. Poe stars following her recent turn as Attorney...

Among the lineup for the Cannes Film Festival’s 78th edition are some big names from Hollywood and global cinema. We already knew that Tom Cruise will light the fuse on Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on May 14 out of competition, while there was plenty of speculation that Scarlett Johansson would have a pair of movies on the Croisette. The latter has now been confirmed with Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great set for Un Certain Regard, and her acting reteam with Wes Anderson in his latest, The Phoenician Scheme, in Competition. Also confirmed is Ari Aster’s Eddington with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.

Many more stars are potentially in store now that the bulk of the official selection has been revealed. Not everyone is confirmed to attend the Riviera shindig, but here’s a look at some of the possibilities.

Cannes...

Costume designer Anna Terrazas has spent her career working between her native Mexico and the U.S., on films and shows including Roma, The Deuce, Bardo – False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths and most recently Eddington.

Speaking to Deadline at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra project and talent incubator on Tuesday, she revealed her fear as she traveled to the U.S. earlier this year in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency and his attacks on Mexico.

“I went back to New Mexico for Eddington, for a couple of things, and Trump was president. When we shot, he wasn’t there yet,” said Terrazas.

“For the first time, when I crossed, I had a weird feeling. I have a visa, an O1 visa, that I have been having for almost 15 years… But this time when I entered the U.S, I was a tiny bit afraid. I was like,...

Hong Kong filmmaking stalwart Johnnie To Kei Fung says he is in the middle of making a feature film starring popstar Anson Lo, and has shot 10 days across the last three years.

Speaking to Screen ahead of his masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra lab, To said the film has been shooting in Hong Kong, and is about “hope”.

Lo was spotted shooting with To in March last year. To told Screen that the cast also includes “an old actress, and a young girl”, that the feature will be ready “as soon as possible” and that he will...