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1 day ago | indiewire.com | Brian Welk

Buyers are finally wise to the fact that Cannes is driving the Oscar race and even the specialized box office. Everyone wants to find the next “Anora,” “The Substance,” “Emilia Perez,” or “Anatomy of a Fall.” And more buyers like MUBI, Metrograph, Sideshow, and other upstarts have emerged to take on the likes of Neon and A24, who come to Cannes armed with several titles already set to debut.

1 day ago | indiewire.com | Brian Welk

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1 day ago | indiewire.com | Ryan Lattanzio

Laurent Cantet, the beloved French filmmaker who directed 2008 Cannes Palme d’Or winner “The Class,” died in April 2024 of cancer before he could see what would have been his last movie to completion. That film, “Enzo,” is now directed by his friend of 40-plus years, Robin Campillo, the French director best known for his 2017 Cannes Grand Prize winner “BPM,” one of the most poignant movies ever made about the HIV/AIDS crisis (and about queer identity in general).

2 days ago | indiewire.com | Brian Welk

In the 24 hours after President Trump declared he would be putting 100 percent tariffs on all films produced in foreign lands, and with little clarity about what that even means, the gut reaction was to declare it a death sentence for independent films looking to get funding from international pre-sales. It seemed like a scary coincidence that the announcement came a week before the industry jetted off to France for Cannes, the biggest global film market of the year.

5 days ago | indiewire.com | Anne Thompson |Ryan Lattanzio

As your “Screen Talk” co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio pack for Cannes, we preview the hot titles for sale, the studio marketing launches, the possible Competition prize contenders, and the movies that have already released trailers. We speculate about the potential brought by President Trump’s latest proposal of a 100 percent tariff on movies filmed overseas. And we preview the summer lineup.