Spotlight: Emerging European Talents
As a European-based media outlet, Film Fest Report is proud to support the most promising European emerging filmmakers.
-
Cannes 2026 (Competition): A Few Things Happening By A River (dir. Daniel Soares) | Review
An exquisite contemporary fable about our growing impermeability to the natural world, "A Few Things Happening by a River" portrays…
Read More » -
Cannes 2026 (Un Certain Regard): Titanic Ocean (dir. Konstantina Kotzamani) | Review
A cinematic hypnosis. A delicate evolution that dives deep into mystical dreams, Un Certain Regard selection "Titanic Ocean" is director…
Read More » -
Cannes 2026 (Midnight): Species (dir. Marion Le Corroller) | Review
An eccentric, adrenaline-pumped genetic drift takes shape in Cannes Midnight Screening selection "Species," a red-tinted horror film that unsettles with…
Read More » -
Cannes 2026 (Directors’ Fortnight): Shana (dir. Lila Pinell) | Review
Misery comes full circle in a fairly tangled tale of endurance and insecurity, intertwined with comedy and fantasy. Eva Huault's…
Read More » -
Visions du Réel 2026: Saudades Eternas (dir. Emma Boccanfuso) | Review
In the heart of the favela, Emma Boccanfuso portrays a vibrant, deeply endearing matriarch who turns her home into a…
Read More » -
Visions du Réel 2026: Guided Tour (dir. Alba Jaramillo) | Review
"Guided Tour" deftly depicts, with both narrative and formal ingenuity, a very real curse: the one left behind by those…
Read More » -
Visions du Réel 2026: Nicole Nicole (dir. Lauren Dällenbach) | Review
Touching and luminous, "Nicole Nicole" offers an intimate, family-centered narrative that tenderly captures a journey of emancipation as unconventional as…
Read More » -
CPH:DOX 2026: The Cord (dir. Nolwenn Hervé) | Review
A moving and urgent portrait of a woman working tirelessly to patch the failures of the healthcare system, "The Cord"…
Read More » -
Berlinale 2026: A Family (dir. Mees Peijnenburg) | Review
"A Family" trains its focus on how familial collapse reshapes children's perspectives — not directly on their parents, but on…
Read More » -
Berlinale 2026: I Understand Your Displeasure (dir. Kilian Armando Friedrich) | Review
In Kilian Armando Friedrich’s "I Understand Your Displeasure," Sabine Thalau delivers an exceptional dual performance of angelic endurance and demonic…
Read More »