At Cannes, the red carpet always tells the first story. It tells a story of lights, cameras, famous faces, and cinema as a beautiful public event. That is the version of Cannes most people see from far away. But the real story of the festival usually begins later. It begins when the applause fades and the prizes are announced. That is when Cannes stops looking like only a glamorous spectacle and starts acting as one of cinema’s most influential judges. On the closing night of Cannes 2026, that deeper story became ' ...
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A woman whose name no one in the film ever learns. A man who rows her deep into a forest in the middle of the night and abandons her there. A palmyra tree whose falling fruit marks the turning points in their marriage. Each time a fruit drops, something shifts between them. The fruit does not cause these changes, but the film frames it as though nature is keeping score. Roid, the second feature from Mejbaur Rahman Sumon, handles these elements with the quiet confidence of a filmmaker who ' ...
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Peter Weir has received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Film Television and Radio School. The retired 81-year-old Australian director and screenwriter was presented with the honour at an event hosted by the Sydney Film Festival. His films include Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli. The award was presented by AFTRS council chair Rachel Perkins. During the event Perkins described Weir as “the greatest film-maker this country has produced”. Perkins, who founded and co-directed Blackfella Films from 1992 until 2022, also ' ...
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Released in 1986, Amma Ariyan (Report to Mother) was screened nearly four decades later in the Classics section of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival this year. The year after the film’s release, in 1987, its director John Abraham died at the age of only 49. Yet through this film he established himself not only in South India, but across the world, as a uniquely original filmmaker. Because of its powerful political statement and unconventional non-linear form, the film once again received high praise at Cannes, along with renewed appreciation for ' ...
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Lately, independent cinema across South Asia has been zeroing in on heavy, jagged themes—war, political strife, memory, and deep-seated psychological trauma. Yet, very few filmmakers can handle these raw, sensitive nerves without slipping into generalised political commentary or over-the-top, manipulative melodrama. Rarer still are the creators who can elevate these brutal struggles into a profound, universal study of the human condition. With her very first feature film, Sri Lankan director Nadie Wasalamudaliarachchi proves she belongs to that select club. For her, a movie isn't just a convenient tool for storytelling. ' ...
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