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,
Who would have known that Gus Van Sant’s dark comedy Dead Man’s Wire, his first film in seven years, would be one of the biggest surprises at the Venice Film
Moroccan director Maryam Touzani, 45, and her French-Moroccan husband, producer Nabil Ayouch, 56, are quite the filmmaking couple. The queen and king of Moroccan cinema, we might say. Their award-winning, groundbreaking films are
Before Thursday’s announcement of the 79th official programme, Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux had warned that Hollywood studios no longer want to send their tentpole films to the festival. Essentially,
A former high school English teacher who lived in the UK for five years as a teenager, French actress Camille Cottin, 47, is understandably, fluent in English. After she gained
Given Wim Wenders’ love of the Australian outback, where he filmed one of his favourite movies, 1991’s Until the End of the World, one might have thought that he’d include
As always, the Berlin Film Festival has delivered some surprises. Perhaps the moment that has gained most traction was at the premiere of Rosebush Pruning on Saturday night when Callum
The Berlin Film Festival has announced the competition programme for its 76th edition and Warwick Thornton’s Wolfram has been included. While it marks the sixth time Thornton’s films have been
South Korea’s cinematic master Park Chan-wook may have had huge success with Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022), but that doesn’t mean getting his films greenlit