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The "Shoplifters" Palme d'Or-winner tells IndieWire about his new film at a pivotal moment for Japan at Cannes.

The New Playbook for Independent Film: From Financing to Distribution in the Age of AI, presented by Clever Caboose, offered Cannes attendees a primer in creating art in a data-driven world. Watch the full panel.

The showcase, presented by Gold House, honored some of the year's best filmmaking from students and early career professionals.

Andrey Zvyagintsev almost died from complications of COVID. But he recovered, slowly, and tells IndieWire how he rediscovered the joy of filmmaking outside his native Russia with Competition Contender "Minotaur."

"Club Kid," "Camp Miasma," and "Minotaur" may not have a lot in common, but they all stood out from a weak lineup for a similar reason.

The creators of the acclaimed comedy about surviving adolescence return with a similar series set in the animal kingdom, where four furry friends navigate love, sex, and survival — among other primal instincts.

"Coward' is yet another story of queer repression and suffering from the director of "Girl" and "Close," and it's often breathtaking, whether in battle or the bedroom, even if too decorous to really steal your heart away.

Exclusive: Filmmakers and siblings Meghan and Justin Ross' latest project explores how people process their fear of the end and why we avoid talking about it — particularly in an Arab family like theirs.

Cannes: A bereft Bulgarian bordertown make for an atmospheric location despite the underwhelming story  

A new Criterion boxed set collects three of Singleton's best features, reminding us of what we lost when the writer/director passed away at 51.

Midori Francis stars in the "Relic" filmmaker's latest, which trusts the actress to go to great, gory extremes.

Cannes: We rank the contenders out of the 2026 edition so far, with James Gray's "Paper Tiger" and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "All of a Sudden" the talk of the Croisette out of the competition.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen's industry drama comes very soon after "Sentimental Value," bringing many of the same themes to the story of an oppressive filmmaker who casts his estranged daughter in his comeback movie.

Cannes: Like all of James Gray's best films, "Paper Tiger" is both sweepingly mythic and hauntingly personal all at once.

Back in Cannes with Kieślowski-inspired "Parallel Tales," starring Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel, the two-time Oscar winner ("A Separation," "The Salesman") explains his unwillingness to work in Iran.

The playwright-turned-filmmaker explains to IndieWire how studying "O Brother, Where Art Thou" shaped her vision of classical tragedy in the American South.

Cannes: The Romanian satirist’s latest loosely adapts Octave Mirbeau’s novel into a sharp-witted mother-daughter epistolary.

Cannes: Reed Van Dyk's intimate, psychologically astute, and true portrait of the human cost of U.S. imperial violence stars Hiam Abbass and Boyd Holbrook.

Cannes: Koreeda begs us not to delegate our imaginations to AI in a winsome grief drama that lacks feeling.

Cannes: Twenty-five years after his debut feature, the Argentinian director offers an unexpected and satisfying continuation.