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
Jane Schoenbrun is a director who plunders their personal history more than most. The filmmaker – who is transfeminine, non-binary and uses they/them pronouns – leapt to fame with their
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… not only a story about vengeance and recognition, but a piercing reflection on collective trauma and moral paralysis in a society broken by fear.
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… tense, dark, even abject but also mysterious, thought-provoking and occasionally tender.
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
This year, Cannes critics were largely united in their belief that Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland were the best films in the competition. Both films won major prizes,
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... a film about an author in crisis — an artist searching for a new form but becoming trapped within his own imagery.
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Fatherland is not only about the past. It is a warning about the cyclical nature of history and the dangers of forgetting.
At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Chilean director Diego Céspedes emerged as one of the most striking debut voices — not only because of the emotional depth of his film
What’s a film? Award-winning Australian filmmakers Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine embrace tech-forward filmmaking techniques to tell stories, with their latest VR documentary, The World Came Flooding In recently winning