9.5
… looks and sounds like the most intense physical meditation that the human body is capable of processing.
It’s midway through the 2026 Cannes Film Festival when FilmInk meets Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. The festival has been good to him in the past; he won the Jury prize
8
... as much bitterness as there is sweetness.
8
… a work of remarkable emotional precision — understated, unresolved, and difficult to shake off.
7.7
… an Akira-sliding good time.
Praised for being the first feature-length film shot in Longtian (Fuqing), Time and Tide captures a texture of rural China that has never been seen before.
6.5
… as Bleach as Bleach gets.
3.5
Ryuto Kondo’s cinematography is the best thing about Sheep in the Box, exhibiting more personality than any of the actors.
8.5
… an absolute, unmissable classic.
Linh Dan Nguyen Phan, who turns 30 this year, is the first female director of photography (DOP) to come out of Vietnam. At the Cannes Film Festival this year, she