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Canadian filmmaker Luis De Filippis and Portuguese filmmakers Catarina Vasconcelos and Daniel Soares are among the ten filmmakers/feature film projects who have been selected to participate in TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab development programme. Screen Daily reports that we have seven debuts and three second feature films, from 10 writer-directors, one co-writer, and 10 producers. There were 236 applications. The selected projects will take part in a development process from June to November 2026, including two residential workshops in Turin, Italy, and an online module in September.

Luis De Filippis’ debut Something You Said Last Night played well on the film fest circuit playing at TIFF, San Sebastian and Rotterdam.… Read the rest

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A filmography that began in 1999 with the Locarno Film Festival-premiered Le Bleu des villes, across ten features to date largely exploring economic struggle, institutional power versus the individual, and the dignity of labor under pressure—best embodied by his two Cannes Film Festival Competition entries La Loi du marché (2015) and En guerre (2018)—French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé has in recent years become a Venice regular with Une vie (2016), Un autre monde (2021), and the quietly affecting, deliciously funny and profound 2023 Hors-saison (read ★★★★ review). For his eleventh feature film, he returns to familiar themes and finds his recent muses returning to the fold.… Read the rest

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It’s only the second day of Cannes competition when the sophomore feature from a virtually unknown German filmmaker arrives, creating one of those disorienting moments where you pause to take stock of what’s unfolding on screen, even as you’re not entirely sure what it is you’re watching. Sound of Falling sees Mascha Schilinski and cinematographer Fabian Gamper crafting a haunting, sensory meditation on intergenerational trauma, memory, and female experience. Set across multiple eras on the same rural German farm, the film traces how pain, repression, desire, and silence echo through generations of women, less as plot than as emotional residue. Its nonlinear, dreamlike structure allows past and present to bleed into one another, suggesting the cyclical nature of history and inherited wounds.… Read the rest

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Adding their 20th feature film to the 2026 edition, the Directors’ Fortnight have extended a special to master filmmaker Bruno Dumont. His shot under-the-radar Les roches rouges (aka Red Rocks) will receive its world premiere plus the filmmaker will give a special masterclass (which will trace thirty years of his filmmaking, exploring a body of work that is both free and deeply singular..). Set in the French Riviera, the movie follows the story of Gèo, a seven year old child, boss of his peer gang that spend the summer through raids and reckless challenges on the cliffs over the sea. The arrival of a rival group coming from the capitol and the meeting with the mysterious Eve will give rise to a ruthless duel, where innocence and cruelty merge in a summer that will forever mark the characters.… Read the rest

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James Gray’s Paper Tiger was confirmed a couple of hour ago as the 20th and final feature in the Palme d’Or competition but we have a whole bunch of extra titles filling up the rest of the fest major sections with the Un Certain Regard section receiving a quartet of films. Zachary Wigon‘s third feature film Victorian Psycho (featuring Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie and Jason Isaacs) will add some frights to the section, while actress turned director Judith Godrèche‘s technical debut in Mémoire de fille will get the media attention for a tale about Annie Ernaux – who is invited to a book signing.… Read the rest

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The Croisette is set to give some love towards the Jersey Shore with Directors’ Fortnight selected Butterfly Jam (by Kantemir Balagov) and now, James Gray‘s Paper Tiger is being confirmed as the 20th competition title which Variety reports the film is now property of Neon — the indie label have a whopping half dozen films in the horse race for the Palme d’Or. This is Gray’s first time being backed by the label and this is now film number six for him in competition – a remarkable feat that begin back in the year 2000 with The Yards.

Starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller, the gritty crime thriller follows two brothers as they try to achieve the American dream, only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true.… Read the rest

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Ten short films—nine clocking in at 15 minutes, with Portuguese filmmaker Daniel Soares’ latest just a minute shy—are vying for the Palme d’Or for Short Film (3,184 submissions in all), in what may be the most strikingly auteur-forward lineup in years. As we eagerly await his feature debut 900 Tons, Soares’ makes it to the Palme d’Or competition for a second time – his Bad for a Moment (2024) was our personal Palme d’Or in that year’s batch is being followed by A Few Things Happening by a River which we imagine might ride the same bleak humor tonality.… Read the rest

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Some electroshock under-the-radar news this morning as we learn that British filmmaker Luna Carmoon has been hard at work on her sophomore feature – having wrapped up filming with Naomi Ackie, Alison Oliver, Éanna Hardwicke and Armande Boulanger toplining. And the major news scooped up Screen Daily is that Hélène Louvart was the cinematographer here on To Make Ends Meat. Production took place in Carmoon’s homebase of London with Erebus Pictures’ Helen Simmons and Delaval Film’s Loran Dunn returning as producers. The big question that remains is if they’ll rush to meet the Venice deadline for a Orizzonti section inclusion or wait for what will be a lot more options for 2027.… Read the rest

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Riding high after taking Best Film at the César Awards — beating out Nouvelle Vague, It Was Just an Accident, and Case 137 — for her Orizzonti-premiered L’Attachement (The Ties That Bind Us), which preemed this past February, Carine Tardieu will be heading to Cannes next month as one of the eight filmmakers in the Investors Circle, and kicking off production on her sixth feature film project shortly after. La vie obstinée lines up a savoury trio of players — we find with upcoming Cannes competition film La Vie d’une Femme (by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet) duet of Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry quickly re-teaming on this new project and completing the trio we find Benoît Magimel.… Read the rest

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Known for a cinema that highlights emotional isolation, identity and self-reconstruction and focuses on the body as an emotional landscape, it’s his masterwork sophomore feature that truly put him on the map. Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro saw his debut Medeas premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival in 2013. Four year later with Hannah (read ★★★★ review), the film won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Charlotte Rampling. Five years later he returns to the Lido with 2022’s Monica (read ★★★½ review) starring Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson. Here is everything we know so far … for Andrea Pallaoro’s The Echo Chamber.… Read the rest

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