Joachim Trier returned to the Cannes Film Festival after his critically acclaimed film The Worst Person in the World premiered during the 2021 festival, both films star actress Renate Rensive, who won the award for Best Actress at the festival for her role in The Worst Person in the World. With its premiere on Wednesday, May 21st, Joachim Trier's newest film Sentimental Value cemented itself in the history books. Receiving an extremely imp...

Tonight, Director Kelly Reichardt returns to the Croisette with her second film in competition and third at Cannes: The Mastermind. Reichardt was last here in 2022 for Showing Up, which competed. The Mastermind's synopsis reads: "In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels." The film stars Josh O' Conner, who is also in Th...

Revisiting Sunshine: A conversation with Istvan Szabo, 25 years later Twenty-five years after the release of Sunshine, acclaimed Hungarian director István Szabó returns to Cannes with a mix of joy and reflection. Reuniting with his work after so many years, Szabó its that there’s always a lingering urge to “fix” things—an inevitable feeling for any creator revisiting old projects. “To be a filmmaker is kind of a disease,” he say...

  The new Spike Lee t first premiered in theaters on Tuesday, May 20th, as part of the out-of-competition Cannes premiere section of the festival. Reimagining Akira Kurosawa's critically acclaimed masterpiece High and Low, Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest sees the story take place in modern-day New York City, where David King, a titan in the music industry, receives a call that his son has been taken and is being held for ransom. Catapulted into this moral dilemma ...

Italian director Mario Martone brings the next major competition film to premiere at Cannes this season: Fuori. The Fuori synopsis from Cannes reads: “Rome, 1980. After the magnum opus, The Art of Joy, she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza ends up in prison for stealing jewelry, but the encounter with some young inmates turns out to be a life-changing experience. After their release and over the course of a sweltering s...

On the 19th of May, Cannes 64th Critic's Week premiered their first round of the short film competition. This program included five different films from various genres, the projects shown were as follows: Alişveriş by Vasile Todinca. This film follows the story of Tatiana, an unemployed woman struggling to make ends meet. When her lack of funds threatens to jeopardize her housing situation, she must sell personal belongings to make her dire rent payment. Director Vasile Todinca uses Tatia...

Today, the second part of the annual Film Finance Forum was held at the Plage des Palms with Producer Lars Knudsen and Writer, Director, and Producer Ari Aster to discuss their t venture, Square Peg. Square Peg is a production company that protects directors and helps filmmakers finance films in a time when financing is difficult to obtain. “We’re looking for filmmakers who have a vision that we believe in,” Knudsen told the . The duo also spoke on what the company i...

  On Monday, May 19th, at 12:30 a.m., the film The Exit 8 premiered, and what a great time for this horror thriller to come out! The story follows the main character, who is left nameless, going only by the title "Lost Man." At the same time, on the phone with his ex-girlfriend, he attempts to navigate the train station, but eventually realizes he is going in circles with no way out. Eventually, stopping to read the rules of this "game," the main c...

Tonight, Julia Ducournau returns to the Cannes red carpet for the second time with her new feature film ‘Alpha’, starring Mélissa Boros, Golshifteh Farahani, Tahar Rahim, Emma Mackey, and Finnegan Oldfield. Ducournau’s ‘Titane’ won the Palme d’Or when it premiered in Cannes back in 2021, and most recently, she was on the Feature Films Jury in 2023. ‘Alpha’ follows the story of Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old who lives with her single mom. Th...

Returning to Cannes for his fourth film in competition and his 13th film, Wes Anderson and his star-studded cast will arrive on the red carpet tonight for the premiere of The Phoenician Scheme. The story follows Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro), who appoints his only daughter (Mia Threapleton), a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins. Wes Anderson h...

In anticipation of his 12th feature film, “Bonekeeper”, we here at filmfestivals.livresgratuits.org sat down with Director Howard J. Ford, actor Louis James (Ethan), and actresses Sarah Alexandra Marks (Olivia)  and Tiffany Hannam-Daniels (Anabelle) to discuss the plot, inspiration, and production of the creature feature. Marks started the conversation with an explanation of her character, Olivia: “My character is really on a journey throughout the movie to trying to love her. And she ...

Mission Impossible-The Final Reckoning, Review: Tom Cruises through air, water, ice and land; dies twice, lives thrice 1,000? You are nowhere near. 10,000? You are getting warmer. 100,000? That, I guess, is very, very, close. It must have taken at least 100,000 persons to put together this humungous spectacle called Mission Impossible-The Final Reckoning, going by the end credits roll. I am making a wild guess, since it was not possible to count the names, which went on rolling for several m...

Premiering on May 16th, Eddington, which follows the political turmoil during 2020, affects two specific individuals in the town of Eddington, New Mexico. The individuals are the small town's sheriff and the mayor. The cast is filled with popular names such as Joaquin Pheonix (Joe Cross, the sheriff), Pedro Pascal (Ted Garcia, Ted Garcia), Emma Stone (Louise Cross, Joe's wife), Austin Butler (Vernon Jefferson Peak), Micheal Ward (Micheal, Joe's trainee), Luke Gr...

Film Mode Entertainment, 4 CATS Pictures, Warner Bros Pictures and Greenboo rev-up for the Cannes world market premiere of sport-action MotoGP™ feature film starring Óscar Casas, Ana Mena, Claudio Santamaria, directed by Mat Whitecross     Film Mode Entertainment, 4 CATS Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures are thrilled to announce IDOLS (ÍDOLOS), starring Óscar Casas (Mi soledad tiene alas, Últimas volun...

Bright White Light today announced it has boarded Elegance Bratton’s By Any Means co-financing and executive producing the crime thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Beharie, Giancarlo Esposito, Josh Lucas, David Strathairn, Ethan Embry, LisaGay Hamilton and LaChanze. Bright White Light’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and Nicki Cortese executive produce.   Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici, Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are producing for T...

The Ecotubers Youth Prize, held in partnership with the Ministry of National Education, offers students from primary to high school the opportunity to create and showcase short films on the themes of climate change and biodiversity. The initiative is also part of the Culture program. This year’s jury includes actress, director, and influencer Enora Hope, actress Noémie Bernstein, and other esteemed film professionals. The prize is proudly sponsored by actor and director G&eac...

The buzz is in—critics are weighing in on Sirat. "A brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits" Variety "Oliver Laxe’s beguiling film is a desert-set, techno-infused meditation on death and grief" The Hollywood Reporter "It’s certainly a trip, a new way of framing family and loss, with a killer soundtrack for the hardcore." Deadline "The boldest enterprise to date from a film-maker who has a tas...

WAR: FIELDS OF TEARS – a James W Hawk short animation film narrated by Greg Nutcher and Annette George is available on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/wIGDKJNcqPM WAR – FIELDS OF TEARS is a powerful war film that takes you on a chilling journey through the battlefields of recorded history, beginning with the first documented war between the Sumerians and Elamites in 2700 BCE. From ancient warfare to modern warfare, from historical wars to world wars, this deeply moving animation chr...

For the first time in 22 years, Richard Linklater will be returning to the Croisette for his latest feature: Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). In this biopic, Linklater tells the story of Jean-Luc Godard making ‘Breathless’. Nouvelle Vague is a love letter to the era of New Wave filmmaking that uses the techniques of the period to create an accurate depiction of Godard’s story. During an interview, The Before trilogy director told Les Inrockuptibles: “It’s the story of a...

British-Swedish actress MyAnna Buring is set to star in the action thriller “Zip Wire,” from director Howard J. Ford, which is being sold by REinvent Intl. Sales. REinvent has sold the film to Falcon Films for the Middle East and North Africa, it said Saturday. Buring is known for her role as Tissaia in the Netflix series “The Witcher” and she just finished filming “Slow Horses,” in which she has a significant role. She can currently be seen in &ld...

  Premiering on May 14th, Sound of Falling follows Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, four girls from the same farm in Northern , and their experiences as they spend their youth there. However, this farm conceals generations of lingering secrets and past trauma. Although separated through time, the lives of the girls begin to mirror one another while the truth of this farm begins to unravel. The film stars Hanna Heckt (Alma), Lea Drinda(Erika), Lena Urzendowsky (Angelika),...

Tonight, we have two Hot Ticket movies on the slate at Cannes: Eddington and Bono: Stories of Surrender. Ari Aster’s next project has been on the radar since it was teased back in April and has been one of the major contenders in the Competition for the coveted Palme d’Or award. The Synopsis for Eddington reads: “In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddi...

Die My Love and Nouvelle Vague COMPÉTITION (SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE) EDDINGTON by ARI ASTER at 8:30 (runtime 2h25) In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico. LA PETITE DERNIÈRE by HAFSIA HERZI at 11:45 (runtime 1h46) Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, ...

For the 10th edition of Women In Motion, Kering brought together Directors Hirokazu Koreeda and Chie Hayakawa to discuss filmmaking in Japan and the impact women make on set. Koreeda spoke about the current state of the film industry in Japan, noting that it's challenging to make films at present. However, there has been a significant increase in female directors and filmmakers, making a positive impact on the industry in Japan. He also advocated for better working conditions in Japan, spe...

Tonight's Hot Ticket film is from French-German filmmaker Dominik Moll, featuring his new detective thriller, 'Dossier 137'. The official synopsis reads: "Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown."...