Read all of Deadline’s Cannes Film Festival reviews below, including Palme d’Or winner Anora. The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. The film, playing in the official…

Karla Sofia Gascón has filed a complaint with the Paris Public Prosecutor against French far-right leader Marion Maréchal-Le Pen for transphobic comments the politician posted on social media following her Best Actress win at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend. Gascón made history on Saturday…

Title: To a Land UnknownSection: Directors' FortnightDirector: Mahdi FleifelLogline: After fleeing a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins are stranded in Athens, living in an underground limbo. Desperately seeking a way to reach Germany, they find themselves caught in an uncontrollable spiral.Distribut…

No one really expected this year’s Cannes Film Festival to replicate the stellar showing of last year at the Oscars, when official selections Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall, and The Zone of Interest took an unprecedented three of the 10 Best…

Blue Sun Palace was one of the prize winners at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival, where it took the French Touch Award for the Critics’ Week selections (Simon of the Mountain took the Grand Prize, the other major award from the section). “French…

EXCLUSIVE: Out of the Cannes market, Sony Pictures Classics has bought North American rights and a raft of international territories on Walter Salles’ anticipated first narrative feature in more than a decade: I’m Still Here. In I’m Still Here, the acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, known for critical…

French LGBT+ groups have filed a complaint with the Paris Public Prosecutor against far-right politician Marion Maréchal-Le Pen accusing her of "transphobic insult" for comments she made about Karla Sofía Gascón's Best Actress win at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend. Gascón made history as…

Title: SantoshSection: Un Certain RegardDirector: Sandhya SuriLogline: A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh (Shahana Goswami) inherit her husband's job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the…

In Cannes this year, the Red Sea International Film Festival celebrated the achievements of Women in Cinema – both in front of and behind the camera – who are helping to shape the film industry and inspiring a new generation of talent in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Four of these women…

Simon has a strong twitch that drives him to shake his head, meaninglessly. He sometimes dribbles. The way he looks out at the world from under his brows, especially when people are talking to him, suggests he can't quite keep up with what they're saying. When he meets a group of young people from a local…

Often, the juries at the Cannes Film Festival will try to make a political statement in their choices for the winners of the world’s most famous film festival. Not this year. At least, not in the way they might have. I rather thought that director…

UPDATE: Sean Baker's New York-set romantic dramedy Anora has scooped the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. This marked Baker's second time in the competition after 2021's Red Rocket, and tonight's win amounted to the realization of what Baker said has been his "singular goal as a filmmaker…