IndieX Film Fest Annual Awards 2026 is proud to welcome Janelle Christa as a guest speaker for the Industry Panel during the festival’s 6th annual edition, taking place on May 30, 2026, at Regal LA Live in Los Angeles. A multi-award-winning filmmaker, actress, screenwriter, and director, Janelle Christa has become one of the festival’s returning […]
IndieX Film Fest Annual Awards 2026 is proud to welcome Irish filmmaker Anne Williamson as a guest speaker for the Industry Panel during the festival’s 6th annual edition, taking place on May 30, 2026, at Regal LA Live in Los Angeles. Anne Williamson is the director of the short film Bridget, which is nominated at this […]
SPECIAL: CANNES CRITICS UPDATE-THURSDAY
As an addendum to today's regular post I am updating the critics' charts with the most recently available information.
We're looking what seem to be the eight critical favorites from the Palme d'Or competition. Each of them are somewhere on the MTFB radar as possible titles for TFF #53. Currently, the charts are missing sufficient data on...
CANNES CONTINUES
The 79th Cannes Film Fest has passed its halfway mark and is barreling toward its conclusion this weekend. Taking a look at the metrics from Screen Daily, Ioncinema and Cannes-ratings.org, here are the films that seem to be at the forefront critically (*** indicates that the film is on my TFF watch list):
From Screen Daily (films in Palme competition with...
From Belgium, Lukas Dhont makes his third trip to the Croisette. 2018’s Girl premiered in Un Certain Regard section and won just about everything from the Caméra d’Or, Queer Palm and Best Performance (Victor Polster) in Un Certain Regard.
Virtual unknowns in non-Spanish speaking markets, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo — often collectively known in Spain as “Los Javis” have brought their brand to queer storytelling with their musical sensibilities.
He has been owning Sundance since he premiered 1996 The Delta and three decades later the cinema of Ira Sachs has been expanding to new A list film fest destinations with his most recent drops at the Berlinale in for Passages in 2023 and Peter Hujar’s Day last year.
A relative newcomer to cinema with only the co-directed Zero Fucks Given (with Julie Lecoustre) selected for the 2021 edition of Critics’ Week, Emmanuel Marre’s cinema looks at marginalized lives andf reedom versus responsibility.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (Jon Favreau, 2026) 3 out of 5 stars The Mandalorian debuted in 2019 as the first original series on the then-brand-new streaming service Disney+. Set in the Star Wars universe a little after the fall of the evil galactic Empire, defeated in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi […]
Forge (Jing Ai Ng, 2026) 3½ out of 5 stars In a criminal underworld filled with grifters, where deception can be your livelihood, art forgery is a uniquely difficult trade. Your brushwork must be faithful enough to fool experts, but not personal enough to feel like it’s yours. It’s a delicate tightrope to walk, but […]