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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Dramatisation of removal of French citizens from Afghanistan in August 2021
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Martin Bourboulon. 2025. France. 111mins.
French director Martin Bourboulon follows up his pair of 2023 Three Musketeers films with 13 Days 13 Nights, a tense thriller based on the true story of France’s successful attempt to get its own nationals, plus hundreds of Afghan citizens, out of Kabul in August 2021.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Period-hopping Competition title also stars Shu Qi and Li Gengxi
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Bi Gan. China/France. 2025. 155mins
Bi Gan’s Resurrection reframes the history of cinema as a kind of twentieth-century monster story that pans out over six time-distanced episodes with no clear connection.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Oliver Hermanus’s intense, restrained film is set on the East Coast during the 1920s
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Oliver Hermanus. USA, UK. 2025.127mins
Invented by Thomas Edison, the wax cylinder was the dominant recording technology in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Mario Martone’s Competition entry focuses on the author’s brief imprisonment and subsequent self-discovery
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Mario Martone. Italy/France. 2025. 115mins
Fuori is a sometimes engaging, sometimes self-indulgent story of an Italian female writer’s unorthodox journey towards personal and creative freedom in early 1980s Rome.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Foster is a Parisian therapist embroiled in a murder mystery in this intriguing, uneven thriller
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Rebecca Zlotowski. France. 2025. 105mins
One of several pleasures to be gleaned from Rebecca Zlotowski’s odd, uneven, likeable whodunnit is seeing Jodie Foster showcasing her fluent French for the first time in a leading role. It’s a reminder that, in an increasingly polarised world, other identities, and loyalties, are available.
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2 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Black-and-white French-language homage stars Guillaume Marbeck as legendary director Jean-Luc Godard
Dir: Richard Linklater. France. 2025. 105mins
Working almost entirely in French, Richard Linklater crafts a black-and-white film shot in Academy Ratio around the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. This affectionate homage to a slice of urban French cool that has rarely been equalled is also a nostalgic tribute to a time and place of extraordinary creative ferment and cinematic sex appeal.
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3 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Ambitious project set during the 2018 protests is an over-reach for the Oscar-winning director
Dir: Sebastian Lelio. Chile. 129 mins.
Feminist pride and anger pour out in a riot of song and dance numbers in Sebastian Lelio’s tribute to his home country’s ‘Chilean Feminist Wave’ protests and strikes of 2018. Reported around the world, these women-led mobilisations kicked off in universities that had been slow to respond to complaints of harassment and abuse against male faculty members.
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3 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Diane Kruger headlines delicate story set on a remote island as the Nazi regime falls
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Fatih Akin. Germany. 2025. 93mins
In his retelling of the Dr Faustus legend, written in 1947 with Germany still reeling from its recent defeat, German novelist Thomas Mann wrote bitterly of what it feels like to live in a “nation that cannot show its face”.
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3 weeks ago | 
screendaily.com | Lee Marshall
Performance-driven Critics Week title is the directorial debut of Baker’s regular collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou
Source: Cannes International Film Festival
Dir: Shih-ching Tsou. Taiwan/France/USA/UK. 2025. 109mins
Returning to her native Taiwan from her US home, regular Sean Baker collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou channels the colour and chaos of Taipei’s famous night markets into a tri-generational female story with a restless, messy appeal.
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