Claire Denis will receive the Carrosse d’Or Award on May 13, 2026, in Cannes, during the Directors’ Fortnight opening ceremony. Established in 2002, this award honors a filmmaker whose freedom of vision and strength of direction have profoundly influenced cinema. Kelly Reichardt and Todd Haynes are some of our recent favorite recipients.
“From Chocolat to Stars at Noon, from Beau Travail to 35 rhums, from Trouble Every Day to High Life, your cinema has continually explored territories – geographic, intimate and political – where relations of domination, desire, memory and exile are played out. Your work is marked by a rare attentiveness to bodies, silences and gestures, to what circulates between beings rather than to what is spoken.… Read the rest
“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before…” wrote Willa Cather in her 1913 American frontier classic 
While its location might feel inherently unique, the happenings in Georgi M. Unkovski’s narrative debut DJ Ahmet sing a familiar tune. A coming-of-age trajectory defined by the formidable temptation of forbidden love fostered through the life-changing possibilities of music, this tale of a teen torn between tradition and self-fulfillment in Northern Macedonia feels overtly accessible for those satisfied with the familiar and the formulaic. Dealing specifically with a young Yuruk boy, a Turkic ethnic subgroup spread across the Balkan Peninsula, a local community festival provides the dramatic zenith as an act of rebellion towards the rigid expectations imposed upon a youthful generation faced with following the proscribed designs of their parents.… 
