After his triumphant ROSE, 🇦🇹 Markus Schleinzer is now moving into biopic and musical terrain for KLAUS - a biopic about Klaus Nomi with Christian Friedel taking on the lead. https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142719

Kino Lorber will distribute Un Certain Regard selected sophomore feature by 🇨🇱 Manuela Martelli - The Meltdown will be released theatrically in 2027. https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142716

Now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel is Sergei Loznitsa’s TWO PROSECUTORS 🇺🇦 https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=138327

2026 Eurimages: 🇷🇺 Kira Kovalenko, 🇨🇦 Monia Chokri & 🇫🇷 Camille Vidal-Naquet land coin for their projects - whcih could easily drop at Cannes next year. https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142712

Out now on home vid via the Icarus Films folks: THE MOST PRECIOUS of CARGOES "The narrative follows the travails of this father, barely surviving Auschwitz, with Hazanvicious depicting liberation as an equally treacherous period. Some striking, disturbing visuals https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=134499

Marlene Dietrich in Four Acts.... Agnieszka Holland will direct "Berlinweh – Yearning for a Home" - if they could grab a Sandra Huller for this ...... we figure this will move into production next year for a 2028 drop. https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142705

​We are now launching the American Indie Edition of our regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ....✈️🧳🎫 here is Everything We Know So Far... for 🇺🇸 Alexandra Qin's THIRSTY GIRL - produced by Valerie Bush, Asher Goldstein and Carlos https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142695

Welcome to our new regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, get your boarding pass ready ..... here is Everything We Know So Far... for 🇵🇱 Aga Woszczynska's sophomore feature (after Silent Land) in BLACK WATER. https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142636

Thomas Salvador is directing his third feature --- with Rebecca Marder, Nadia Melliti & Antoine Reinartz. It's titled Chercher la fille and is probably headed to Cannes next year. https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142687

Flashback to the 2026 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard section! https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142677

Could this finally be his sophomore feature? Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi's next could be Radioactive with Clive Owen 🇺🇦 https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142673

Juho Kuosmanen's DREAM COME TRUE (with Magnus Millang & Paprika Steen) sees the Finnish filmmaker work in the Danish language and underwater. Cannes 2027 could be a possibility. https://www.ioncinema.com/?p=142652

There is nothing more satisfying than attending festivals & discovering a true gem of a film from .... a new voice. This was the case for the 🇫🇷 𝗟𝗔 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗔. I had the pleasure of chatting w/ Marine Atlan. https://bit.ly/4vL5npf

We had the pleasure of chatting with Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winning Elephants in the Fog​🇳🇵filmmaker Abinash Bikram Shah https://bit.ly/3StQmcM

Among my tops of Cannes 2026 (and it'll be among my feature debut faves too) we find slow cinema bliss in 🇵🇸 Rakan Mayasi's Un Certain Regard selected Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep - here is our sit down. https://bit.ly/4uiZlL9

Welcome return to our regular Saturday feature. Pack your bags, ✈️🧳🎫 get your boarding pass ready ..... here is Everything We Know So Far... for Felix van Groeningen's LET LOVE IN - which should drop on the Lido this September. https://bit.ly/3SpTRkr

"her Kore-eda reminiscent title THE LITTLE SISTER doesn’t convey the immediacy of its text source, and thus risks seeming like countless other coming out stories despite cultural specificities." https://bit.ly/3ZnKUJ3

He had a great 2025 with NINO and LURKER, so it was nice to catch up with Théodore Pellerin who was in Cannes as a Unifrance 10 to Watch 2026 personality and he was a jury member for the Critics' Week (they selected LA GRADIVA as the section winner). https://bit.ly/4ub4aWN

"We have a relationship with the paper and the pen and the ink. The movie looks like the person who makes it." For Marjane Satrapi 🇮🇷🕊️ - we go back to this interview December 2007 for Persepolis. https://bit.ly/4vqLyTE

We had the chance to speak to filmmaker 🇳🇴 Eivind Landsvik on his feature debut Low Expectations starring Marie Ulven aka Girl in Red plus Trier muse Anders Danielsen Lie. Producers are Maipo Film's Synnøve Hørsdal & Lotte Sandbu. https://bit.ly/4uhf4KL

Beautiful complex portrait on grief, 🇦🇹 Sandra Wollner delivered the best film of Cannes 2026 with EVERYTIME - we were honored to speak with her! https://bit.ly/43hqAuD

During an international press roundtable I got to ask filmmaker 🇧🇪 Lukas Dhont on the origins of the chosen film title. COWARD will hit other prestige fests - Mubi landed North American rights to the film. https://bit.ly/4xb3h3t

We had the opportunity to speak to 🇨🇳 filmmaker Zou Jing for her feature debut A Girl Unknown aka La Deuxième fille - a Critics' Week selection at this year's Cannes Film Festival and winner of the FIPRESCI Prize https://bit.ly/4x6gE4U

We had the opportunity to speak with 🇦🇷 Federico Luis - For the Opponents - the Palme d'Or short winner at this year's Cannes! https://bit.ly/4uIQdk8

We love this directorial debut - the first of two interviews with the filmmaker - this came on the last day of TIFF. https://bit.ly/47Rjxwc

The Dreamed Adventure “Grisebach’s penchant for unfussy storytelling lulls us into such complacency with Veska that even the subtlest hints suggest the hard won comfort of the present is on the verge of crumbling at any minute.” https://bit.ly/49oLdbM

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Were Fatherland & Fjord Tops of the Fest? We Compare Grids! https://bit.ly/42W9fXV

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇧🇪 Lukas Dhont's COWARD ★★★½ “Most powerfully, Dhont stages a recuperation of queer representation as both resilient and hopeful.” #cannes2026 https://bit.ly/3RnUhaN

Our Nicholas Bell reviewed 🇫🇷 Histoires de la nuit “Mysius knows how to write compelling characters, and her ability to squeeze new energies from routine ideas through shifting the perspective can be pleasurable to those willing to look past the conventional hook.” ★★★ https://bit.ly/4v7lwou

The Palme d'Or winner and the Best Director winner are 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel top graded films according to our twenty international film critics! Congrats to FJORD & FATHERLAND! https://bit.ly/3RIPmBf

You patiently waited for it - here is the most updated grid - 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10- Valeska Grisebach's 'The Dreamed Adventure' https://bit.ly/4f4gsfQ

Our Nicholas Bell gives a favorable ★★★½ to 🇪🇸 La bola negra by Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo “In a world currently backsliding into chaos, THE BLACK BALL reflects on the importance of authenticity as the legacy to be inherited.” #cannes2026 https://bit.ly/4dBcJnx

2 more films left in the competition and we now have a three way tie for first (3.7). Coward joins Fatherland and Fjord in the top spot. We'll see if it raises above the mark or gets pushed down by tomorrow morning. https://bit.ly/4v4hxch

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 - Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo's The Black Ball will be on some folk's possible picks for the Palme while it did not have the same magic for others. We are looking at an average score of 2.8. This is film #19 of 22. https://bit.ly/3RBgSAA

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 - 🇺🇸 Ira Sachs rockets into 4th place with THE MAN I LOVE -- a couple of more grades will trickle in for what will likely be an average score of 3.4 https://bit.ly/43mA9IF

Zero Fucks Given filmmaker's debut solo was extremely well received in and faired well with most of our jury folks - Emmanuel Marre's Notre Salut landed an average score of 3.4 https://bit.ly/4tT6jX4

THE MAN I LOVE - It is Sachs' most galvanizing characterization since Dina Korzun in Forty Shades of Blue (2005).” ★★★★ https://bit.ly/4dp6Qv4

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇫🇷 NOTRE SALUT ★★½ “There’s a reason a name like Henri Marre was forgotten by time, and this familial excavation is perhaps a merely dark footnote best left for deliberation amongst his ancestors.” https://bit.ly/4wH48Zk

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇬🇷 Konstantina Kotzamani’s Titanic Ocean 🇯🇵 “it's a somewhat thematically and metaphorically amphibious venture which, like the Hans Christian Anderson classic it evokes, has everything to do with finding one’s own voice.” ★★★ https://bit.ly/4nGubLX

2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 - Pedro Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas https://bit.ly/4drjS9S

“Almodóvar’s assumed interpersonal relationships & self-referential tactics in the nested, meta analysis going on with his latest, which concerns a famous director plundering both his memory and experiences of those occupying his inner circle for his latest project" https://bit.ly/4nCM8eq

Our Nicholas Bell reviews BITTER CHRISTMAS “Almodóvar’s assumed interpersonal relationships and self-referential tactics in the nested, meta analysis going on with his latest, which concerns a famous director plundering both his memory and experiences of those occup https://bit.ly/4nCM8eq

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇲🇽 Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building “Razo’s exploration is part of a unique cycle of queer survival cinema determined to honor the spiritual carnage which defined the generation of gay men coming of age during the AIDS crisis.” ★★★½ https://bit.ly/4wKMnsf

Our Nicholas Bell on Sara Ishaq's 🇾🇪 The Station (Al Mahattah) “Ishaq’s exploration is sometimes muted by it’s earnestness, perhaps predictably arriving at a foregone conclusion about survival being boiled down to the possibility of living tomorrow if one doesn’t die today.” ل https://bit.ly/4nCU7s4

Our Nicholas Bell reviews HOPE 🇰🇷 “Much like with The Wailing (2016), Hong-jin creates some remarkable moments (like an unforgettable exorcism), but Hope outwears its welcome following the intrigue of an extended set-up and, most unforgivably, doesn’t lean into its assets.” ★★ https://bit.ly/4wAHy4n

Our Nicholas Bell reviews Un Certain Regard 🍓🇲🇦 “Still, what the film boils down to is the importance of unity when it comes to speaking truth to power. And while absolutely everything remains unresolved in Strawberries, which is perhaps one of its most interesting elements, t https://bit.ly/4nL74Qz

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇫🇷 Garance “Repetitive sequences and crunchy dialogue....bog down the immediacy of the character’s plight, which ineffectually leans into the pandemic era as way to extend her conquest with white wine.” ★★½ https://bit.ly/3RNzwFp

Our Nicholas Bell reviews 🇭🇺 “MOULIN feels like a masterpiece (elevated significantly by DP Matyas Erdely, who employs jaundiced yellow and green hues in the daytime, his nights spiked with a sinister palette like the foggy Port of Shadows, 1938)” ★★★ #cannes2026 https://bit.ly/4uozC54

Our Cannes Critics' Panel is up to date with Hope 호프 by Na Hong-jin blasting into the comp with a 3.1 average score. Here is our latest chart! https://bit.ly/4uTFtPo

Neon have a hit on their hands - ★★★★ “In short, PAPER TIGER is partially a film about ‘more money, more problems,’ but also, quite powerfully, a study on how the tantalizing facade of the American Dream is an express elevator to hell for anyone who desires to outstrip the fat https://bit.ly/4u01ueR