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The entire film industry is soon to descend upon the Côte d’Azur this May as the Cannes Film Festival readies for its 77th edition. From May 14 through May 25, the iconic festival event of the year will host much-awaited new works for auteurs and rising directors alike, across sections like the Competition, Directors’ Fortnight, Un Certain Regard (with jury president Xavier Dolan), and Critics’ Week. Major prizes will come at the end of the festival, and will no doubt set the tone for the movie year ahead.

Such was the case last year when Justine Triet’s eventual Oscar winner “Anatomy of a Fall” took home the top award, the Palme d’Or, the fourth consecutive film distributed by Neon to do so. Jonathan Glazer’s 2023 Grand Prize winner “The Zone of Interest” also won two Academy Awards, while Competition entries “Perfect Days” and “May December” earned Oscar nominations, too.

Exclusive: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1972 drama, is being reimagined for the second time in as many years, this time by a team of Iranian filmmakers.

Fassbinder’s movie has also been adapted by high-profile French filmmaker François Ozon, with his French-language version starring Denis Menochet, Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla set to open the Berlin Film Festival next month.

The Bitter Tears of Zahra Zand, which is Farsi-language, has now wrapped filming in London.

Directed and co-written by Vahid Hakimzadeh (Greater Things) along with co-writer and star Boshra Dastournezhad (Radio Dreams), the film is a tragicomic melodrama that tells the story of Zahra Zand (Dastournezhad), a high society fashion designer from Iran who has fled the Islamic revolution of 1979. Recently divorced, she lives in the fantasy world of her glamorous apartment in 1980s London. Distraught at the loss of her country, she descends...

Festival top brass have unveiled the complete line-up of films that includes six world premieres, 10 North American premieres and 27 Us premieres.

The six world premiere selections include Nicole N Horanyi’s Danish documentary Motley’s Law; Majid Barzegar’s Iranian drama A Very Ordinary Citizen; and Vahid Hakimzadeh’s UK-Japanese entry Greater Things.

There are also first-ever public screenings of Mercedes Kane’s Us film Breakfast At Ina’s; Patrick Underwood’s Us selection The Middle Distance; and Rob Hatch-Miller’s Us documentary Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows.

The International Documentary Competition line-up features Poland’s Call Me Marianna from Karolina Bielawska, Ostap Kostyuk’s The Living Fire and Time Suspended from Natalia Bruschtein.

Festival selections include Todd Haynes’ Carol, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, Hsiau-hsien Hou’s The Assassin, Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth and László Nemes’ Son Of Saul.

Oddlot founder and CEO Gigi Pritzker will be the subject of a tribute as part of...

Festival top brass have unveiled the complete line-up of films that includes six world premieres, 10 North American premieres and 27 Us premieres.

The six world premiere selections include Nicole N Horanyi’s Danish documentary Motley’s Law; Majid Barzegar’s Iranian drama A Very Ordinary Citizen; and Vahid Hakimzadeh’s UK-Japanese entry Greater Things.

There are also first-ever public screenings of Mercedes Kane’s Us film Breakfast At Ina’s; Patrick Underwood’s Us selection The Middle Distance; and Rob Hatch-Miller’s Us documentary Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows.

The International Documentary Competition line-up features Poland’s Call Me Marianna from Karolina Bielawska, Ostap Kostyuk’s The Living Fire and Time Suspended from Natalia Bruschtein.

Festival selections include Todd Haynes’ Carol, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, Hsiau-hsien Hou’s The Assassin, Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth and László Nemes’ Son Of Saul.

Oddlot founder and CEO Gigi Pritzker will be the subject of a tribute as part of...