Festival de Cannes 2025 | The Secret Agent: Meandering into Brazil 1977
He has now come to the festival with The Secret Agent, set in 1977 in Filho’s hometown of Recife in northeastern Brazil
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | A Flawless Shell, a Hollow Core: The Paradox of The Phoenician Scheme
The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson’s latest cinematic contraption, unfolds like an intricate toy delicate, ornate, and almost assembled
Continue ReadingDeath Does Not Exist”; Youth, Violence, and Doubt”
Death Does Not Exist is a new animated film that was recently screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. It is a different animation that tells the story of young people who, due to class differences, have turned to violence. However, the film blends the realities of society with dreams, where the main character experiences a deep sense of doubt.
Félix Dufour-Laperrière director of this film, discusses the details of the film in an exclusive interview with Mo Abdi.
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Festival de Cannes 2025 | Godard in Glass: Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague Preserves, But Doesn’t Provoke
Richard Linklater’s latest film, Nouvelle Vague, premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival amid great anticipation
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Tell Her I Love Her – Realigning the Past
The director of Tell Her I Love Her, Romane Bohringer, is best known as an actor for works such as Savage Nights
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Eddington : When Everything Is Political and Nothing Is Clear
Ari Aster’s Eddington is a film of immense ambition and intellectual density—so much so that it ends up collapsing
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Le Petit Dernier
In Le Petit Dernier (The Little Sister), Hafsia Herzi adapts Fatima Daas’s autofictional novel into a cinematic portrait of queer adolescence
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | When the Past Pales
Nobel-prize winning Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro is here for A Pale View of Hills, an adaptation by Kei Ishikawa
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Kika (2025) – Sex Work, Soft Light, Hard Truths
At first glance, Kika unfolds like a gentle romantic prelude: twilight in Brussels, a bicycle in need of repair
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Sirât – A Journey Across the Bridge of Being
In Sirât, Oliver Laxe offers a cinematic experience that feels more like a passage than a story—a crossing over, rather than a destination
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