The showrunners, production designer, and lead actors of 'Ponies' tell IndieWire about embedding clues into the show's '70s Moscow setting.

Park Chan-wook's next film 'The Brigands of Rattlecreek' will be released by Warner Bros. Clockwork.

Andy and Barbara Muschietti discuss Pennywise, fearmongering, Stephen King, and expanding 'It' with HBO’s 'Welcome to Derry.' It's a Hit — Emmys

Production designer Chloe Badner tells IndieWire why working on the Dropout series is as much of a gift for an ADHD brain as watching it is.

Tim Heidecker was this year's Future of Filmmaking keynote speaker at the American Pavilion.

A tortured filmmaker writes — and re-writes — a screenplay about a tortured filmmaker in this satisfying late-career gem from the Spanish giant.

Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King Interview: Will ‘The Comeback’ Be as Prescient About AI as It Was Reality TV?

Leah McKendrick's Netflix rom-com is the kind of thing Deutch was made for: funny, sweet, silly, and with a generous dose of real human drama.

The "Loveless" and "Leviathan" director repositions the cliches of adultery thrillers into his own gloomy register with engrossing results.

Rakan Mayasi talks his Cannes premiere, 'Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep,' and working with nonprofessional cast and without a script. Interview.

Inessential and inoffensive, frequently adorable and fun for the whole family, its ’Star Ward’ at most generic.

Nicolas Winding Refn's new movie 'Her Private Hell' becomes our public anguish. Review.

The first Rwandan feature ever to play at Cannes is a deeply moving drama about genocide survivors reckoning with what they can bear to forgive.

Laila Marrakchi pulls from real stories of Moroccan immigrants to construct a damning indictment of a labor system that leaves them voiceless.

As Hollywood retrenches, Cannes and Cannes Lions increasingly reflect the same industry-wide questions.

Nothing but life happens in Yukiko Sode’s elusive adaptation of Mieko Kawakami’s bestseller.

Cannes: Kristen Stewart and Woody Harrelson swim in circles, in a mildly surreal comedy-drama that works better on paper.

Curry Barker's film 'Obsession' made $17.2 million at the box office this weekend, a great result for a YouTuber turned filmmaker.

At IndieWire's "What No One Tells You: The Secrets of PR Pros," some of the industry's best publicists explained how the game has changed.

A man turns into Léa Seydoux after having sex with her Arthur Harari's hypnotic, Antonioni-flavored body swap movie 'The Unknown.'

Watch Diego Luna discuss his new directorial outing 'Ashes' at a Cannes panel at the American Pavilion.

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu journeys to Norway for a cautionary tale about cultural assimilation.

Cannes: The liberating power of Ernaux’s memoir shines through in this adaptation.

Gilles Lellouche convincingly plays the icon of the Resistance, but the Oscar-winning director’s work is mired in overstatement.

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton star in the Danish auteur's return to cinema after nearly a decade.

Taratoa Stappard’s “Mārama” turns Māori history into a haunting gothic revenge horror led by a breakout Ariāna Osborne. Film review. SIFF 2026.

Nicolas Athané and Marco Nguyen's raunchy animated feature debut 'Jim Queen' imagines a world where the worst threat to gay men is becoming straight.

A monster terrorizes a Korean harbor town in a disappointing epic that starts on a high but fades hard and fast.

Jeanne Herry's 'Another Day' stars Adèle Exarchopoulos as an alcoholic actress who falls down one last time. Review.

Ron Howard's new documentary on Richard Avedon premiered at Cannes. Read our review.

Read IndieWire's review of Yeon Sang-ho's new zombie movie 'Colony,' which premiered at Cannes.

Watch the trailer for Season 2 of Don't Suck, a YouTube web series, featuring Jeff Hiller.

Compelling newcomer Naomi Cosma plays an exchange student in a drama about the shock and trauma of 9/11 that cuts deep.

Kenneth Lonergan has enlisted an all-star cast including Aubrey Plaza and Adam Driver for his new film 'Tomorrow Is a Drag.'

Javier Bardem stars as a hotheaded director in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's father-daughter drama 'The Beloved.' Review.

Like all of James Gray's best films, "Paper Tiger" is both sweepingly mythic and hauntingly personal all at once.

In the director’s stirring follow-up to “I Have Electric Dreams,” an already fractured family drifts further apart.

Cannes: The Romanian satirist’s latest loosely adapts Octave Mirbeau’s novel into a sharp-witted mother-daughter epistolary.

Reed Van Dyk's intimate, psychologically astute, and true portrait of the human cost of U.S. imperial violence stars Hiam Abbass and Boyd Holbrook.

A married couple adopts a robot copy of their dead son in sweet but stunted grief drama 'Sheep in the Box' from Hirokazu Koreeda.

Cannes: Twenty-five years after his debut feature, the Argentinian director offers an unexpected and satisfying continuation.

40 years later, Stephen King’s lone directorial effort 'Maximum Overdrive' feels stranger and more alive than ever before. IndieWire After Dark.

Léa Seydoux stars in Marie Kreutzer's film about the predators among us — and how difficult it can be to see them for what they are.

Cannes: First-time director Julien Gaspar-Oliveri's feature about the uneasy reconnection of a father and son lands with crushing force.

SAG-AFTRA's tentative contract with the studios closes some key loopholes in the guild's AI protections while leaving the door open for conversation.

The appallingly ugly AI-generated imagery only highlights the project’s flimsy reason to exist.

A rape case against producer Harvey Weinstein was declared a mistrial after a jury was deadlocked following two days of deliberations.

Who will win the 2026 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or? Here are all the contenders.

Exclusive: Film Independent’s latest live read is coming to New York City with director Meredith Alloway and a predictably fun cast.

Laika in marketing its latest stop-motion animated film 'Wildwood' needs to sell the film as more than beautiful animation to be admired.