Category: Cannes 2023

The biggest film festival in the world, you can’t talk about film without talking about Cannes.

The perils of burgeoning female sexuality are excellently turned inside-out in Elena Martín’s impressive second film, playing in Directors’ Fornight.

The Cannes ACID section focusses on normal lives in independent films, celebrating perspectives often overlooked in bigger programmes.

The coming-of-age genre, told over a scorching summer, is imbued with cinematic flair in Paloma Sermon-Daï’s fiction debut.

A social drama with smart dramaturgy and effective mise-en-scène, Inshallah A Boy piercingly critiques Jordan’s male-first inheritance culture.