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Few artists march to the beat of their own drum as proudly as Rick Alverson. The Virginia-based filmmaker is known for his unapologetically bleak explorations of topics that might be funny in other contexts, like the Neil Hamburger tragedy “Entertainment” and the Tim Heidecker drama “The Comedy,” applying his singular, uncompromising voice to each project. And now, he wants to teach the next generation of filmmakers how to do the same thing with their own voices.

Alverson and musician Emilie Rex recently launched the Little Valley School, an arts education community in the Allegheny Highlands of Virginia. IndieWire can exclusively reveal the school’s first major program: a series of two online filmmaking workshops hosted by Guy Maddin, the director of provocative films like “My Winnipeg,” “The Saddest Music in the World” and “Rumors,” and Carlos Reygadas, the acclaimed Mexican arthouse director behind films like “Post Tenebras Lux,” “Japón,” and “Silent Light.

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,...

Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and US producer and writer Joslyn Barnes of Louveture Films are among the among the jurors for the 2025 Locarno Film Festival (August 6-16).

Reygadas’ films include Cannes competition titles Silent Life and Battle In Heaven, while Barnes’ work as a producer includes Oscar-nominated documentaries Strong Island and Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, and she also co-wrote 2024 awards contender Nickel Boys.

Joining them on the festival’s international competition jury are Swiss actor Ursina Lardi, best known for Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon; and the Netherlands’ Renée Soutendijk, who won Locarno...

New York-based indie producer Joslyn Barnes (“Nickel Boys”), Mexican multi-hyphenate Carlos Reygadas (“Our Time”) and Swiss stage-and-screen actor Ursina Lardi (“The White Ribbon”) have been set as members of the upcoming Locarno Film Festival’s main jury.

As previously announced, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh will preside over the Swiss indie festival’s competition panel. The jury also includes Dutch actor Renée Soutendijk, winner of the event’s female actor prize in 2023 for her role in Ena Sendijarević’s “Sweet Dreams.”

Locarno titles in the Cineasti del Presente competition, dedicated to emerging directors at their first or second feature, will be judged by Indonesian actor Asmara Abigail, known to Locarno audiences for her performance in Malaysian director Ming Jin Woo’s “Stone Turtle” (2022); La Frances Hui, who is the curator of film at New York’s MoMA and co-chair of the museum’s New Directors/New Films festival; and Indian actor Kani Kusruti,...

Amat Escalante is a Mexican filmmaker whose cinema dares to dwell in spaces most would rather avert their gaze from. Emerging in the early 2000s, Escalante has built a body of work marked by sparse dialogue, clinical detachment, and unsettling intimacy. His characters often exist on the margins — working-class, voiceless, and wounded — and his camera observes them not with sentimentality, but with a precise and unsparing eye.

Early in his career, Escalante worked closely with fellow Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas, serving as an assistant director on “Batalla en el Cielo” (2005). Reygadas would later co-produce Escalante’s debut feature “Sangre,” and their shared cinematic sensibilities — long takes, non-professional actors, and existential brutality — continue to resonate across both bodies of work.

Escalante’s first short film, “Amarrados” (2002), shot in black and white with handheld urgency, introduces a homeless child sniffing glue to numb the pangs of hunger and trauma. From this earliest effort,...

Tato Kotetishvili’s Holy Electricity headed the winners at the second edition of Georgia’s Eliso film awards.

Holy Electricity received the best film prize, from a seven-person jury that included Agnieszka Holland and Carlos Reygadas.

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The film follows two cousins who discover abandoned crosses in a Tbilisi scrapyard, turning them into neon art which they sell across the Georgian capital. It debuted at Locarno film festival last summer, going on to play Thessaloniki, Tallinn, Goteborg and Rotterdam among others.

Kotetishvili also won the best cinematography award for the film, while he was nominated for best director.

The jury of Juliette Binoche, Alba Rohrwacher, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, thesps Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and Congolese filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi chose to bestow the highest award and also making a political choice in selecting Jafar Panahi‘s It Was Just an Accident as the Palme d’Or winner. Kleber Mendonça Filho would become a double winner while Bi Gan would receive a special mention for Resurrection (it was just picked up today by the Janus Films folks. As usual, we were on hand to witness those who claimed an award during the evening.…...

Jeremy Strong has compared serving on the jury at the Cannes Film Festival to "'Conclave' with Champagne".The 'Succession' star was among the famous faces entrusted with picking the winners at the glitzy festival this year and he's revealed jury duty was comparable to the election of a new Pope in critically-acclaimed movie 'Conclave'.According to Variety, Jeremy said during a press conference: "I feel immeasurably inspired by what I’ve seen here. It’s been so invigorating, and this sort of cumulative tally of the work I’ll carry with me ... "This has been a really wonderful experience, a really connected experience with these people - it’s like ‘Conclave’ with Champagne. It’s really great."The festival jury was led by president Juliette Binoche and also featured Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sansoo, Alba Rohrwacher, Leila Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas. The festival's top prize - the...

Jeremy Strong likened the Cannes competition jury’s final huddle to “a conclave with champagne,” a papal-sounding image that broke the customary secrecy surrounding how nine jurors decide the world’s most watched film prize. Led by French actor Juliette Binoche, the panel spent 11 days weighing 22 entries before emerging on 24 May to hand the Palme d’Or to Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi for his revenge drama It Was Just an Accident.

The Grand Prix went to Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, while the Jury Prize was shared by Óliver Laxe’s desert odyssey Sirât and Mascha Schilinski’s family saga Sound of Falling. Nadia Melliti and Wagner Moura collected the acting awards, and Kleber Mendonça Filho was named best director for Brazil’s The Secret Agent.

Asked why the panel backed such politically edged work, Binoche said Panahi’s film “springs from a feeling of resistance, survival, which is absolutely...

The 78th Cannes Film Festival takes place May 13-24, 2025, with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche presiding over the main competition's jury. Held on the stunning French Riviera, this annual event culminates in the prestigious Palme d'Or prize, given to a director for their feature film, which officially kicks off the year's awards cycle. To date, four winners of the Palme d'Or have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture: The Lost Weekend (1945), Marty (1955), Parasite (2019), and Anora (2024).

A highlight of this year's Cannes opening ceremony was Leonardo DiCaprio's presentation of the Honorary Palme d'Or to Robert De Niro, DiCaprio's costar in films like Killers of the Flower Moon and This Boy's Life. De Niro follows in the footsteps of such recent recipients as Meryl Streep, George Lucas, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, and Tom Cruise. Denzel Washington also received a surprise Honorary Palme d'Or on May 19.

U.S. films that...

Jeremy Strong is reflecting on his past 11 days as a member of the Cannes Film Festival competition jury, comparing it to the process of choosing a new pope as depicted in the Oscar-winning film “Conclave.”

“I feel immeasurably inspired by what I’ve seen here,” Strong said during a press conference after the jury awarded Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” with the Palme d’Or. “It’s been so invigorating, and this sort of cumulative tally of the work I’ll carry with me.”

Strong continued: “This has been a really wonderful experience, a really connected experience with these people — it’s like ‘Conclave’ with champagne. It’s really great.”

Strong served under president Juliette Binoche along with Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sansoo, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas. During the presser, the group explained their decision to give the top prize to “It Was Just an Accident,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival concludes today with the Closing Ceremony and presentation of the coveted award, the Palme d’Or, which was awarded to Jafar Panahi for the film It Was Just an Accident.

The Jury, chaired by director Juliette Binoche, was tasked with awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 21 films in the Competition. The jury included Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong.

Related: Cannes Film Festival 2025: Read All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews

The Croisette has been a buzz so far with glamorous parties and red carpet fashion statements. Director Amélie Bonnin’s debut feature, Partir Un Jour, opened the festival with other highlight premieres from this year’s slate including Paul Mescal in The History of Sound; Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest; A Private Life starring Jody Foster...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s triumphant return to the Cannes Film Festival, “It Was Just an Accident,” has won the Palme d’Or as the best film in competition at the festival, the Cannes jury announced on Saturday evening.

Panahi, who spent almost 20 years in prison or under house arrest in Iran for making anti-government films, was allowed to leave the country and go to the festival for the first time in more than two decades with the film, which deals with victims of oppression who abduct a man they believe was their torturer in prison.

“The bracing thing about ‘It Was Just an Accident’ is that it has married Panahi’s wit and humanism with real anger,” said TheWrap’s review.“… In a festival full of fury, this is one of the films that hits hardest and resonates longest.”

The review also suggested that the film, which premiered on Tuesday,...

And the wins keep on coming for Neon. But also for Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, currently in exile from his home country of Iran for how he’s voiced opposition through his cinema. This includes his latest film and now Palme d’Or winner, “It Was Just an Accident,” a moral thriller that finds five dissidents debating whether or not to murder their former torturer.

In IndieWire’s review out of Cannes, David Ehrlich said of the film, “From the plot description alone, it’s obvious that ‘It Was Just an Accident’ finds Panahi working in a very different register than he had to while “banned” from making films — a period that saw his long-standing penchant for metafiction become considerably more pronounced, as he was forced to make himself the subject of iPhone/camcorder masterpieces like ‘This Is Not a Film.’ This one still had to be shot in secret...

Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d’Or for best film for It Was Just an Accident at the 78th Cannes international film festival.

Panahi, who just a few years ago was imprisoned in Tehran and under a 20-year travel and work ban, returned triumphantly to Cannes, accepting his award from jury president (and vocal Panahi fan) Juliette Binoche.

Panahi’s film, his first since being released from prison in 2023, is a direct assault on Iran’s authoritarian regime. The thriller follows a former political prisoner who kidnaps a man he believes to be his torturer and then debates with other dissidents whether to kill or forgive him.

The win marks the sixth time in a row a film acquired by Neon for North America has won the Palme d’Or. Tom Quinn’s indie outfit kept its Cannes streak going by picking up It Was Just an Accident earlier this week.

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident has won the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped on Saturday night (May 25).

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It is the Iranian director’s first film since his release from prison and follows a man, his heavily pregnant wife, and their young daughter as they get into a minor car accident that sets off a dark chain of events.

In his speech Panahi addressed “all Iranians, with different opinions, in Iran and around the world”. He said: “The most important thing is our country and the freedom of our country.

The closing ceremony of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival is taking place today (May 24) at 18:40 Cest (17.40 BST) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.

The ceremony ison schedule after a massive power cut earlier on in the day in the region.This story will update with the winners as they happen, below. Refresh the page for latest updates.

This year’s jury was made up of presidentJuliette Binoche, plus Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong and Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leila Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo and Carlos Reygadas

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Jury Prize

Sirat, dir.Oliver Laxe

Best Screenplay

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,...

The city of Cannes was hit by a five-hour power outage on Saturday morning ahead of the film festival’s awards ceremony, with electricity finally returning around 3:30 p.m. local time. Despite the technical challenges, a festival rep previously told Variety that the closing ceremony would “proceed as planned” after the Palais des Festivals “switched to an independent power supply.”

According to Franceinfo, the cause of the outage may be foul play with two arson acts reported overnight and several power lines pylons were discovered to have been sawn off in the Alpes-Maritimes.

Karin Topin-Condomitti, director of services at the Cannes city hall, said the local government was still trying to determine whether the power outage was caused by a malicious act. She said there will likely be an investigation.

“We have read, as I’m sure you have, reports in the media and press of malicious acts,” Topin-Condomitti said.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival came at precarious moment in the history of cinema, yet still managed to revel in the splendors this art form can provide. While the annual international event may be coming to a close, it leaves behind a bevy of gems that will continue to be discussed throughout the year and may even land on the Oscars stage in 2026, as was the case with Sean Baker’s 2024 Palme d’Or winner, “Anora.” But before all that, there still remains the important act of closing out the festivities with the ever-important awards ceremony.

Predicting the Palme d’Or recipient has become a cherished pastime for fans and critics alike, but as is the case every year, the final decision rests in the hands of the Main Competition jury. This year it’s led by French actress and current European Film Academy president Juliette Binoche, and also includes Halle Berry,...

See all the best red carpet looks from the Cannes Film Festival, which is expected to welcome stars including Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and Robert De Niro. The jury is headed by Juliette Binoche, with members including Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, Alba Rohrwacher, Payal Kapadia, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, and Carlos Reygadas.

The opening night film was “Partir un Jour” (Leave One Day), while Robert De Niro received his honorary Palme d’Or from Leonardo DiCaprio before the screening. On Wednesday, stars climbed the Palais steps for the “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” red carpet. On Friday, stars including Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler and Emma Stone hit the red carpet for the screening of Ari Aster’s Western “Eddington.” Saturday’s premieres included Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” with Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence among those walking the red carpet.

Stars walking the carpet...

Exclusive: Agnieszka Holland is among the jurors for the second Eliso Awards, the Georgian film awards launched last year by the country’s Nato Vachnadze Foundation.

Holland will sit alongside Georgian director Elene Naveriani; Carlos Reygadas, who was last in Cannes with 2012 Competition title Post Tenebras Lux; director Dito Tsintsadze; producer Thomas Hakim; actress Angeliki Papoulia; and critic Salome Kikaleishvili.

The seven jurors will judge Georgian fiction and documentary features released last year, in six categories including best film, best director and best acting.

The awards will be presented at a ceremony on June 14, at the museum and house of Georgian acting icon Vachnadze.

Angelina Jolie is bestowing a great honor on two rising stars: Marie Colomb and Finn Bennett!

The ceremony of the 25th edition of the Trophée Chopard took place at Carlton Beach during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Friday night (May 16) in Cannes, France.

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It was co-hosted by Festival President Iris Knobloch, General Delegate Thierry Frémaux, and President of Chopard Caroline Scheufele.

Following a moving retrospective of their careers, the 30-year-old Culte actress and the 26-year-old Warfare actor were presented with the iconic gold-coated silver film reel trophy by the 49-year-old acclaimed actress and activist, acting as the official “Godmother” of this year’s edition.

Angelina offered words of encouragement to the two actors as she presented the award, met with applause by an audience of film industry luminaries and

international stars.

Attendees included President of the Cannes Festival jury Juliette Binoche, Members of the Cannes Festival jury Halle Berry,...

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Robert De Niro criticised president Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on films made outside the US at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening night ceremony, which took place tonight (May 13).

De Niro, receiving the honorary Palme d’Or, said: “In my country, we’re fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted. And that affects all of us here because the arts are democratic. Art is inclusive. It brings people together, like tonight. Art looks for truth, art embraces diversity and that’s why art is a threat — that’s why we are a threat — to autocrats and fascists.

The Cannes Jury has arrived for the opening ceremony!

Jurors Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, Alba Rohrwacher, Dieudo Hamadi, Payal Kapadia, Leïla Slimani and Carlos Reygadas, along with Jury President Juliette Binoche, arrived for the event, which also served as the screening for Partir Un Jour on Tuesday (May 13) in Cannes, France.

Earlier that day, Halle said her opening ceremony dress was nixed due to the new dress code rules!

“I had an amazing dress by Gupta that I cannot wear tonight because it’s too big of a train,” Halle said (via Variety). “I’m not going to break the rules. The nudity part is also probably a good rule.” Cannes did ban long, voluminous looks, as well as nudity.

Fyi: Halle is wearing Jacquemus with Chopard jewels. Juliette is wearing Chopard jewels. Jeremy is wearing Loro Piana.

Browse through the gallery for the opening night photos from the jury…...

The Cannes Film Festival kicked off its 78th edition with the Opening Ceremony and the world premiere of Amélie Bonnin’s debut feature, Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day), led by Juliette Armanet, Bastien Bouillon, and François Rollin.

The premiere was attended by the cast of the film, including Quentin Tarantino, Rossy De Palma, Julia Garner, Nava Mau, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, and Leonardo DiCaprio, who presented the honorary Palme d’Or to Robert De Niro.

Leave One Day follows Cécile, a budding restaurateur whose ambition to open a gourmet haven in Paris takes an unexpected detour. A family crisis compels her return to her rural roots, where, amidst the echoes of her youth, she reconnects with a long-lost love.

Related: ‘Leave One Day’ Review: Amélie Bonnin’s Nostalgic Musical Debut Is A Stealth Charmer – Cannes Film Festival

The festival formally kicked off on Monday with the poster installation, then moved to the Hotel Martinez,...

Just hours before the Cannes Film Festival opening gala, jury member Halle Berry revealed she had to swap her planned gown after organizers unveiled strict guidelines banning nudity and oversized trains on the red carpet. Speaking at the Palais des Festivals press conference on May 12, Berry said her custom Gupta dress featured a train deemed too large. “I’m not going to break the rules,” she said, adding that the ban on nudity “is probably a good rule.”

Cannes officials issued a statement explaining the measures align with the festival’s charter and French law. Attire that risks blocking other guests’ passage or complicating seating in screening rooms may be refused entry. Festival programmers say the guidelines formalize long-standing practices rather than introduce new mandates.

Berry sits alongside jury president Juliette Binoche and peers Jeremy Strong, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sangsoo, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas. The...

When Cannes Film Festival Jury President Juliette Binoche was asked today why she didn’t sign a global film industry open letter condemning the “silence” over the deadly impact of Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza; The English Patient Oscar winner told a reporter “I cannot answer you.”

“You will maybe understand it a little later,” the actress said.

Binoche at this afternoon’s Cannes jury press conference was asked by Al Jazeera English about the open letter that was released on the eve of the festival with signatures from more than 350 cinema world figures including Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Javier Bardem.

“In Cannes, the horror Gaza must not be silenced,” read the letter.

Binoche was questioned on why she did not sign the letter herself, despite being “well-known for speaking out about a variety of causes.” After a long hesitation, she refused to answer but insisted that...

Cannes Jury, from left: Carlos Reygadas, Payal Kapadia, Leila Slimani, Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, Juliette Binoche, Dieudo Hamadi, Alba Rohrwacher, Hong Sangsoo Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival/Sameer Al-Doumy/Afp

This year’s reigning queen of the Croisette Juliette Binoche, president of the Competition jury in succession to last year’s Barbie director Greta Gerwig, was asked at today’s jury press conference if the #MeToo movement had led to the downfall of Gérard Depardieu, who earlier today was found guilty of sexual assault charges and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence.

The firm and unequivocal response from Binoche was: “Of course, yes, absolutely." She added that the festival had reflected the changes of attitude in society at large. "For a number of years, indeed the festival is following this trend in social and political life. There have been great changes occurring in the world. Sometimes it follows the trends,...

Despite best efforts to talk about movies at Cannes, with the sprawling official selection yet to be screened, at early press conferences festival director Thierry Fremaux and his Competition jury batted back questions about the state of the world today. Queries swung from Gerard Depardieu’s #MeToo conviction, to showing three films from Ukraine and banning Russia from the festival, which from its founding in 1939 was “predicated on liberty,” said Fremaux.

“People take risks to make films,” he said. “The most important thing is not someone’s safety, but making a film. The festival is political when the artists are political. Jafar Panahi [Iranian Competition entry ‘A Simple Accident’] is prepared to risk going to prison.”

As to the current political winds prevailing in America and elsewhere, Fremaux said, “The cinema requires a lot of funding. It is often the first target. Around the world we need to defend cinema.” As for President Donald Trump’s...

Juliette Binoche said Gerard Depardieu is “no longer sacred”, following the French actor’s conviction for sexual assault earlier today.

Speaking at the Cannes Competition jury press conference, Binoche fielded multiple questions about Depardieu.

“For me, what is sacred is when something happens, when you create, when you act, when you are on stage,” said Binoche. “We have no grasp of the sacred; and now he is no longer sacred. That means you need to think hard about the power wielded by certain people who take that power; and the power may lie elsewhere.”

Depardieu was handed a suspended 18-month prison sentence,...

Halle Berry revealed during the Cannes jury press conference that she had to make a last-minute fashion change due to the new rules the festival has issued about its starry red carpets. Just ahead of the 2025 festival getting underway, Cannes organizers announced the event would be banning nudity and “excessively voluminous” clothing. Dresses with long trains and other attributes that could clog up the carpet are also no longer allowed.

“I had an amazing dress by Gupta that I cannot wear tonight because it’s too big of a train,” Berry said regarding her look for tonight’s opening night gala. “I’m not going to break the rules. The nudity part is also probably a good rule.”

Cannes issued a statement on Monday, May 12 in which it detailed its new red carpet rules. The festival said the red carpet changes were in accordance with “the institutional framework” of the...

“I understand that Trump is trying to protect.”

Such was Cannes Film Festival jury president Juliette Binoche’s answer to being grilled about the topic of now: Donald Trump’s potential tariffs on film and TV imports to the U.S.

“For us, we have a strong community of filmmaking on our continent in Europe,” she told reporters. “I don’t know what to say — I can see that he’s fighting to save America and to save his ass.”

But for the most part when it comes to Trump’s consideration of film and TV tariffs for productions shot outside the U.S., the Oscar-winning star of The English Patient admits, “I’m not acceptable to answer that.”

Jeremy Strong, who starred as Trump mentor Roy Cohn in last year’s Cannes title The Apprentice, didn’t weigh in on tariffs, but he did talk about Potus: “Roy Cohn...

Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, and Cannes jury president Juliette Binoche were immediately pressed on all things Trump at the festival’s first press conference on Tuesday.

They were joined by Alba Rohrwacher, auteur directors Hong Sangsoo, Payal Kapadia, and Carlos Reygadas, French Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, and Congolese documentarist Dieudo Hamadi.

Of course, the conversation swiftly moved to the looming shadow of President Donald Trump whose spate of tariffs has upended the global economy. He has, in recent days, turned his attention to Hollywood: a 100 percent movie tariff on international films putting the fear of god into every producer flocking to the Croisette.

“I’m not sure I’m capable to answer that because it requires an analysis of the industry and cinema in the world,” Binoche said when asked how the proposed tariffs threaten the international film industry. “I understand President Trump is trying to protect… he was trying to protect his country,...

All eyes were on Halle Berry as the Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Tuesday with its jury press conference, where the Oscar winner was questioned on everything from Cannes’ new dress code to if she would ever go back to the James Bond universe.

When asked by Variety if she would be open to revisiting a spinoff involving her character Jinx — or if she would take on the role of the famous spy herself — Berry said: “I don’t know if 007 should be a woman.” On the spinoff, she added that “there was a time that that could have happened. Probably should have happened. I would have loved for that to happen.”

Elsewhere during the jusry press conference — which also included president Juliette Binoche and “Succession” star Jeremy Strong — Berry was quizzed on the news of a stricter dress code banning nudity and “voluminous outfits.” In fact, Berry revealed...

The French Riviera is set to host international cinema again this year. Getting featured in the Cannes Film Festival is a lifelong ambition for many filmmakers, and once again, its 78th edition is going to fulfill many of these dreams. The Festival will take place from May 13 to May 24, 2025, and this year is particularly interesting for some new reasons.

One of the reasons is the recent announcement by President Donald Trump about potential tariffs on films from countries across the border. Other than these, there will be the usual glamorous red carpets, neck-to-neck competition, and maybe a bit of political drama as well, which makes the Cannes Film Festival a special event.

Jury of the Cannes Film Festival 2025

The jury lineup is quite stacked this year. It’s French actress Juliette Binoche who is leading the Main Competition jury, and she is joined by a talented team. Halle Berry’s...

As your “Screen Talk” co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio pack for Cannes, we preview the hot titles for sale, the studio marketing launches, the possible Competition prize contenders, and the movies that have already released trailers. We speculate about the potential brought by President Trump’s latest proposal of a 100 percent tariff on movies filmed overseas. And we preview the summer lineup.

In new news, the already sprawling Cannes Film Festival has just welcomed a few new additions: Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” finally joins the competition after much speculation and anticipation, as well as Eugene Jarecki’s delayed Julian Assange documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” which was pulled from Sundance due to developments in the story.

Among the competition titles without North American berths are Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” with Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg,...

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Tariff Shocker

Trump card: “Tariff” is a word that has entered the daily lexicon over the past few weeks, but the industry was still blindsided when Donald Trump set out a plan (via Truth Social) to impose 100% tariffs on film imports Sunday. It’s been quite the rollercoaster since and the sector is spooked. “It’s insane,” was the simple response leading our international reax piece, which is well worth a peruse. What started as a ranty proposal made on social media that appeared to reflect Trump’s hatred for California governor Gavin Newsom as much as his desire to return production to America, became a more codified plan when Deadline revealed Trump and his Hollywood compadre...

This episode explores the urgent need to establish venues in Latin America that showcase and nurture local cinema.Diana Bustamante Escobar is a Colombian producer, curator, and director who is responsible for some of the most acclaimed Colombian and Latin American films from the past two decades. From 2014 to 2018, she worked as the Artistic Director of the Cartagena International Film Festival (Ficci), where she championed bold auteurs who have revitalized Latin American cinema. Over the past fifteen years, she has produced such notable films as Óscar Ruiz Navia’s Crab Trap (El vuelco del cangrejo), winner of the Fipresci Prize at the Berlinale; César Augusto Acevedo’s Land and Shade (La tierra y la sombra), which won the Caméra d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, which received the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2021. In 2022, Bustamante made her directorial debut with Our Movie (Nuestra película...

The jury for the Cannes Un Certain Regard program has been announced, with “How to Have Sex” director Molly Manning Walker as the president.

The 2025 Un Certain Regard jury includes French-Swiss director and screenwriter Louise Courvoisier; Vanja Kaludjercic, Croatian director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam; Italian director, producer, and screenwriter Roberto Minervini; and Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart. The jury will award prizes for the section, which showcases first- and second-time filmmakers of promise. The Un Certain Regard program will open with Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s “Promised Sky” on Wednesday, May 14.

This year, a total of 20 films have been selected for Un Certain Regard, including nine first films, such as Harris Dickinson’s “Urchin,” Scarlett Johansson’s “Eleanor the Great,” and Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water.”

Un Certain Regard Jury President Walker previously won the 2023 Un Certain Regard Prize for her directorial debut “How to Have Sex.

Gold Derby's top news stories for April 28, 2025.

Brad Pitt to star in A24 drama from Edward Berger

Brad Pitt has signed on to star in The Riders, an A24-produced drama from Conclave director Edward Berger. The film is based on a 1995 novel by Tim Winton about a father and daughter who travel around Europe looking for their missing wife and mother. David Kajganich (The Terror) is writing the screenplay, and Ridley Scott is a producer through his Scott Free banner. The film is scheduled to shoot in multiple locations throughout Europe early next year.

Joseph Kosinski to direct Dan Gilroy-scripted Miami Vice reboot

Joseph Kosinski, director of Top Gun: Maverick and the upcoming F1, has signed on to direct a new adaptation of iconic crime thriller Miami Vice. The script is by Dan Gilroy. Kosinski is expected shoot the project after his next film, a UFO project for Apple.

Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong have been appointed to the main competition jury for the 78th Cannes Film Festival, joining previously announced jury president Juliette Binoche. The festival will take place from May 14 to May 24.

The full jury includes Berry, Strong, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Hong Sangsoo, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, and Carlos Reygadas. They will award the Palme d’Or and other prizes among the 21 films selected for competition. Winners are scheduled to be announced on May 24.

Berry became the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for Monster’s Ball. Her credits include Jungle Fever, Swordfish, X-Men, Cloud Atlas, and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. She directed her first film, Bruised, in 2020 and has co-produced several recent projects, including Alexandre Aja’s Never Let Go.

Kapadia won the Grand Prix at Cannes last year with All We Imagine As Light, bringing India back into the...

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Joining Cannes Film Festival jury president Juliette Binoche will be American actress and filmmaker Halle Berry, Indian director and screenwriter Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, and French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani.

Jury duty also looms for Congolese director, documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer Carlos Reygadas and American actor Jeremy Strong.

The Jury will award the Palme d'Or to one of the 21 films in Competition on Saturday, 24 May 24 at the closing ceremony as well as other prizes including Best Actor and Best Actress.

Meanwhile luxury brand Kering and the Festival de Cannes will present the 2025 Women In Motion Award to Oscar,...

The Cannes Film Festival has put together a powerful jury for its 78th edition, including Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong (“The Apprentice”) and Payal Kapadia, the Indian filmmaker of “All We Imagine as Light.”

Mixing actors, filmmakers and authors, the jury will also comprise of South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo; Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher; French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani; Congolese director, documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi; and Mexican filmmaker and producer Carlos Reygadas. As previously announced, Juliette Binoche will preside over the jury, succeeding Greta Gerwig who handed out the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s “Anora.”

Both Strong and Kapadia were at Cannes last year, in competition. Strong presented Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice” in which he starred as Roy Cohn, while Kapadia was there with her fiction debut, “All We Imagine as Light” which won the Grand Prize.

Berry became the first African-American woman to win best actress at...

An all-star line-up, including actors Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, and Alba Rohrwacher, auteur directors Hong Sangsoo, Payal Kapadia, and Carlos Reygadas, French Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, and Congolese documentarist Dieudo Hamadi will join Oscar-winning French star Juliette Binoche on this year’s international jury for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

The group will pick the winners of this year’s Palme d’Or for best film.

From left to right: Jeremy Strong, Alba Rohrwacher, Dieudo Hamadi, Leïla Slimani, Juliette Binoche, Halle Berry, Carlos Reygadas, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sangsoo

Strong and Kapadie return to Cannes after a triumphant 2024, which saw the U.S. actor impress on the Croisette as Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, a turn that would earn him a best-supporting Oscar nomination this year, and the Indian director win the festival’s Grand Prix with her debut feature, All We Imagine As Light.

Rohrwacher and Reygadas are Cannes regulars. The...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival main competition jury was revealed Monday morning, all of whom will look at 21 films vying for the Palme d’Or.

The jury’s mix of talent from above and below the line includes: American actress and filmmaker Halle Berry, Indian director and screenwriter Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French/Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, plus Congolese director and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director/screenwriter/producer Carlos Reygadas, and American actor Jeremy Strong.

As previously announced, the main competition jury president will be Juliette Binoche. The jury will oversee the selection of the Palme d’Or and other competition prizes. Neon has released the past six consecutive Palme d’Or winners, with Sean Baker’s 2024 film “Anora” going on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 13 to 24. Amélie Bonnin’s directorial...

Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong have been announced as members of the Cannes Film Festival’s main Competition jury for its 78th edition running from May 13 to May 24.

They join previously announced Jury President Juliet Binoche. Together, they will award the Palme d’Or to one of the 21 films in the main Competition, as well as the Grand Prix, Jury Prize, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor awards.

U.S. Actress and filmmaker Berry was the first African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Marc Forster’s Monster’s Ball (2002).

Alternating between blockbusters and independent productions, her credits include Jungle Fever (1991), Dorothy Dandridge (1999), X-Men (1999), Swordfish (2002), Die Another Day (2003), Gothika (2003), Frankie & Alice (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and John Wick Parabellum (2019).

In 2020, she directed her first film, Bruised. Also a producer,...

Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong and Payal Kapadia are among the eight new members of the Cannes Competition jury.

The nine-strong jury is headed up by president Juliette Binoche, with the festival running from May 13-24.

US actors Berry and Strong and Indian filmmaker Kapadia are joined by Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani, Congolese filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi, Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, and Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas.

The jury will select award winners from the 21 Competition films, most of which were announced on April 10 with two titles added last week.

The winners – including this year’s Palme d’Or – will be announced on Saturday,...

Mubi’s May 2025 selection has arrived, featuring a Rooney Mara double-bill of perhaps her best film (Carol) and most recent effort (La cocina), Cannes-selected Latin American cinema, and a program curated by Magic Farm‘s Amalia Ulman.

As Kent M. Wllhelm said of Magic Farm in his review, “I was sold on the premise of satirizing opportunistic content creators who play dress-up as journalists, but weaving that into the storylines of the ensemble cast is no easy task for a sophomore feature. The plot gets lost; when it feels like there’s too much going on, nothing gets to shine. There’s nevertheless fun to be had in Magic Farm; importantly, Ulman’s voice and perspective are what stick with you after the credits roll. It’s encouraging to see a young director experiment, venturing into new narrative and stylistic territory.”

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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. April opens in theaters on April 25.

In this year’s diverse line-up of Venice competition titles, there is one that stands out. A film without any predecessors or useful comparison-companions, a truly singular example of a cinematic mystery: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s sophomore feature April. After two shorts at Cannes and a debut (2020’s Beginning) that (to say the least) wowed TIFF, San Sebastian, and NYFF, the Georgian director premiered her newest film on the Lido. Chances are high the risk of presenting something so invigoratingly different will pay off. Not only because April is unique to this line-up, but also because it confirms Kulumbegashvili as an assured visionary unafraid to engage with ambivalence and radical opacity. In other words: a different brand of storyteller.

Like Beginning, April also carries the mark of reality, mediated. The director is inspired...