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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.