The Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence is welcoming Anna Llargués Muñoz, Vytautas Katkus, Sam Manacsa, Ananth Subramaniam, Agustina Sánchez Gavier, and Dorian Jespers to their 52nd session.
Excursion‘s Una Gunjak, How to Have Sex‘s Molly Manning Walker & My Wonderful Stranger‘s Johanna Pyykkö are among the half dozen filmmakers who have been selected to take part of the Cannes Critics’ Week’s Next Step Vol.II.
OSCAR EXPERTS EARLY PREDICITONS: AWARDS WATCH
MTFB continues to look at the opening set of Oscar predictions from various Oscarologists. Today's look is from Erik Anderson's Awards Watch. Here's what he has to say about TFF #53 films and Oscar nominations:
La Bola Negra (15): Best Picture, International Feature, Direction, Supporting Actor...
Al Caiola's Apollonia is a lush guitar led interpretation of Nino Rota's music from The Godfather, named for Apollonia Vitelli, the young Sicilian woman Michael Corleone meets and marries while hiding in Sicily. The melody carries much of the romantic, old world character associated with that part of the film, but also has an unmistakable melancholy given Apollonia's fate. Caiola's version...
Riley Keough and Clay Tweel have joined Brandon Kapelow’s documentary “Under Fire” as executive producers. “Under Fire” follows Rob, a veteran Idaho fire captain living with PTSD who has spent decades responding to emergencies and saving other people. As the toll of his work follows him home, threatening his future and his relationship with his […]
HIFF46 SPOTLIGHT ON TAIWAN: A Look Back and to the Future HIFF’s 2026 Spotlight on Taiwan, presented by the Ministry of Culture ROC and Taiwan Academy, Los Angeles, looks across generations of Taiwanese cinema—honoring the artists who transformed its cinematic language while celebrating a new generation carrying that legacy forward in unexpected directions. The program looks back with THAT...
THE BLOB — Come for the Gore, Stay for the Score! On Halloween Eve—Friday, October 30—HIFF46 is kicking off Halloween weekend with something louder, stranger, and bloodier. THE BLOB: A NIGHT OF GORE & SCORE pairs Chuck Russell’s gloriously gooey 1988 horror classic with an original live score performed by Hawai‘i musician, composer, and actor Holden Mandrial-Santos, who will remix and...
From Cannes to Hawai‘i — Four Animated Films to Watch at HIFF46 Animation is having a landmark year, and HIFF46 brings four of the year’s most acclaimed international animated features to Hawai‘i. WE ARE ALIENS, TANGLES, IN WAVES, and IRON BOY all world premiered at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival—part of a record year for animation on the Croisette. Now arriving at HIFF after further festival...
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Bassam Tariq, 2026) 3½ out of 5 stars Much of the press leading up to Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother has ironically focused on the film its director never got to make. Writer/director Bassam Tariq was infamously lined up to direct Academy Award-winner Mahershala Ali in the Marvel […]