Spotlight: Female and Non-Binary Filmmakers
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Cannes 2026 (Critics’ Week): The Station (dir. Sara Ishaq) | Review
In a Yemen ravaged by cycles of violence, "The Station" is a brilliant, generous, and gripping film that celebrates sisterhood…
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Cannes 2026 (Un Certain Regard): Forever Your Maternal Animal (dir. Valentina Maurel) | Review
Director Valentina Maurel opens up the concealed layers of womanhood across two dimensions: the silent, non-desperate plea that lingers beneath…
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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…
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Cannes 2026 (Cannes Premiere): Marie Madeleine (dir. Géssica Généus) | Review
Géssica Généus pulls double duty as director and star in "Marie Madeleine," where taboo and temptation collide against the foundations…
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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…
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Visions du Réel 2026: Dentro (dir. Elsa Amiel) | Review
Elsa Amiel offers an immersion into the creative work of the "Compagnia della Fortezza" and its director, centered around the…
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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…
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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…
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CPH:DOX 2026: Whispers in May (dir. Dongnan Chen) | Review
In rural China, Dongnan Chen crafts a luminous, delicately poetic film about young girls whom life compels to grow up…
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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"…
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