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17 hours ago | screendaily.com | Jonathan Romney

A ‘powerful valedictory’ from the late French auteur focuses on an adolescent working on a building side outside Mareseilles Source: Les Films de Pierre Dirs. Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet. France/Italy/Belgium. 2025. 102mins. Directed by Robin Campillo, but credited up front as ‘a film by Laurent Cantet’, Enzo is a powerful valedictory from Cantet, the acclaimed French writer-director who died last year aged 62.

1 day ago | screendaily.com | Silvia Wong

Taiwan arrives at the festival with a drama produced by Palme d’Or winner Sean Baker while the market includes animated features and the directorial debut of The Assassin star Shu Qi. Festival Dir. Shih-Ching TsouTsou’s solo directing debut is produced, edited and co-written by Sean Baker, the US filmmaker who won last year’s Palme d’Or with Anora plus six Oscars.

1 day ago | screendaily.com | Silvia Wong

EXCLUSIVE: Thai director Banjong Pisanthanakun has reunited with star Davika Hoorne for psychological horror Inherit, which GDH 559 is pre-selling at the Cannes market. Davika from Banjong’s 2013 smash hit Pee Mak plays Grandma Woranart, an 80-year-old grandmother who suddenly returns looking like a woman in her 30s after having disappeared for half a century. But her return brings terrifying hauntings to her family, with her 18-year-old granddaughter destined as the next heir to the demon.

1 day ago | screendaily.com | Silvia Wong

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Kong’s Edko Films is launching sales at Cannes of two prequels to the successful Cold War film franchise, both toplining Daniel Wu and Terrance Lau. The prequels, titled Cold War 1994 and Cold War 1995, are produced by Bill Kong and Ivy Ho whose recent titles include A Guilty Conscience and Anita. The first prequel is scheduled for release in the last quarter of 2025 with the second lined up for next year.

2 days ago | screendaily.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Source: Andro Chichinadze In a gesture of symbolic support, the European Film Academy has granted membership to Andro Chichinadze, the young Georgian movie star arrested during the pro-European protests in Georgia on December 4. Chichinadze is currently behind bars in Gidani Prison in Tbilisi. He has been charged with being part of an organised criminal team, “organising, leading, participating in, and publicly calling for violent actions,” and is facing a sentence of six to nine years.