Asghar Farhadi made a grand return to Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night with the debut of “Parallel Tales,” his French-language drama starring Isabelle Huppert, earning a 5.5-minute standing ovation. The acclaimed Iranian auteur blew kisses to the crowd as the audience applauded for the 2-hour and 20-minute drama, which follows several nosy neighbors whose […]
Meet this year’s highlight films with: Béla Baptiste, Mohammadhossein Nikzad, Joshua Mueller, Esteban Roel and Rita Heer. Written by Pia Stoffers After an exciting ÉCU 2026 weekend, this year´s winners have finally been announced. The selected films not only captivated audiences in cinemas, but also impressed both viewers and jury members with their strong creative […]
Sandra Hüller takes a fraught and cathartic road trip in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cannes premiere “Fatherland”– and her GPS is set for next year’s Oscar race. The audience at the Grand Palais rewarded Hüller’s performance as the dutiful daughter of a post-war German literary genius with a 5-minute standing ovation, by Variety‘s count. Hüller and her […]
Cannes: The mighty Sandra Hüller stars as German author Thomas Mann's daughter, tasked with taking him on an emotional postwar trip in 1949, in the Polish filmmaker's chiseled-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life road movie.
Cannes: Equal parts “The Spirit of the Beehive” and “Picnic at Hanging Rock," Manuela Martelli's eerie second feature explores the costs and concessions of trying to move on from Pinochet.
There is a moment, somewhere between exchanging favorite films and confronting each other’s psyche, where two strangers from different countries have to decide whether they can actually make something together. For the eight directors at the center of “Next Step Studio Indonesia 2026,” that moment arrived last year in Jakarta. The result, screening in Cannes’ […]
Fresh off the Cannes world premiere of “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” Hannah Einbinder joined Variety’s Angelique Jackson at the Kering Women in Motion Talks to discuss Jane Schoenbrun’s queer slasher, the final season of “Hacks” and the importance of speaking up for Palestine. “Camp Miasma” opened the Cannes Un Certain Regard section […]
Polish production company Lightcraft is expanding the world of its upcoming animated film “Wonderland” with a new TV series toplining Louis Serkis (“28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” “The Kid Who Would Be King”) slated to premiere next year. The feature film, which stars Roman Griffin Davis (“500 Miles,” “King of Kings,” “Jojo Rabbit”) and […]
The Locarno Film Festival will honor Isabella Rossellini with its Excellence Award that pays tribute to film personalities who are making their mark on contemporary cinema. Rossellini — whose most recent credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera” (2023) and Edward Berger’s “Conclave” (2024), for which she scored an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress — […]
Vin Diesel couldn’t help but shed a few tears as the credits rolled on the special midnight screening of “The Fast and the Furious” at Cannes. It was enough to process that the festival considered the high-octane street racing movie a “classic” after 25 years. But the emotion was heightened by seeing his bond with […]