Festivals: Cannes
Cannes 2025 Review: Biopic THE GREAT ARCH, Measured Study of Vision and Compromise
Claes Bang stars. Director Stéphane Demoustier crafts a restrained biopic that charts the fraught realisation of France's Grande Arche de la Défense.
Cannes 2025 Review: DANDELION'S ODYSSEY Charts a Post-Human Cosmic Journey
Momoko Seto's animated feature debut blends time-lapse macro cinematography, ecological parable, and non-verbal performance to chart a post-human tale of survival and transformation.
Cannes 2025 Review: PEAK EVERYTHING, Love in the Time of Climate Crisis and Mental Anxiety
Piper Perabo and Patrick Hivon star in Canadian filmmaker Anne Emond's atypical romantic comedy.
Cannes 2025 Review: Duty and Desire Collides in CARAVAN in a Touching Portrait of Motherhood and Womanhood
Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová draws on her background in documentary and her Cannes-awarded short Bába to craft a restrained psychological drama exploring motherhood, identity, and the unspoken costs of care.
Cannes 2025 Review: EXIT 8 Sets New Standard for Videogame Adaptation
Genki Kawamura's out-of-competition midnight title works because it sticks close to the original.
Cannes 2025 Review: NO ONE WILL KNOW Contemplates Just How Far People May Go to Make a Killing
Vincent Maël Cardona's gripping thriller is much more than a genre exercise.
Cannes 2025: A Look At What The Mad Scientists Are Doing...
The world's most famous film festival rounds up today, and we've had plenty of reviews in the past weeks. But Cannes also has a business side of course, a vast market where people try and get their projects financed, scout...
Cannes 2025 Review: DALLOWAY Envisions a Grim, Not-Too-Distant Future Where A.I. Assistants Run Amok
In director Yann Gozlan's out-of-competition midnight entry, technology may be fluid, but evil Big Tech is forever.
Cannes 2025 Review: NOUVELLE VAGUE Knows It Shouldn't Exist
Richard Linklater and co. go walking, talking, and exploring with the Cahiers crew.
Cannes 2025 Review: A USEFUL GHOST, The Importance of Remembering
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's feature debut tells a very queer ghost story within a story about the importance of remembering.
Cannes 2025 Review: DEATH DOES NOT EXIST, Existential Angst in Animated Feature
Directed by Félix Dufour-Laperriére, the Canadian-French film deals with a hefty subject in an unique and intriguing way.
ALPHA Teaser Poster: 'A' Marks the Spot?
With Cannes about to begin, one of the films we're most excited about at ScreenAnarchy, is Julia Ducournau's Alpha. The filmmaker behind two titles that took the genre film world — well, the whole film world — by storm (Raw...
BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE Exclusive: Poster for Japanese Directors' Fortnight Premiere
Exclusive poster debut for one of Directors' Fortnight 2025's most intriguing offerings.
Cannes 2025: Exclusive CARAVAN Clip Premiere
Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová's lyrical debut takes a road trip for an intimate odyssey through motherhood, disability, and the quiet rebellion of reclaiming one's life.
HONEY, DON'T! Trailer: A Coen Brother's Noir-Comedy
The Coen Brothers working separately have not exactly set the box office on fire, even if the films (The Tragedy of Macbeth, Drive Away Dolls) are well enough regarded. This may be about to change from Ethan Coen's Cannes bowing, star...
Friday One Sheet: EDDINGTON
Disturbing imagery is carrying much of the load for Ari Aster's latest film, a neo-western called Eddington. This grey-ish design from LA outfit, grandson, is a festival teaser poster for its upcoming Cannes bow. The black buffalo charging off a cliff (the odd...
Frontières 2025: The Frontières Platform in Cannes Announces Program
Our friends at Frontières have announced this year's Frontières Platform in Cannes. Over two days thirteen genre projects will be presented to investors, buyers, sellers and distributors. The projects comes from right here in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia and Oceania. ...
Friday One Sheet: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Brutalism is back, baby! Behold the mighty Winnipeg mortar arches, and thin veneer of snow that together form one of many visual motifs in Matthew Rankin's superbly dry dramedy Universal Language. A large part of the film's delights come from...
Toronto 2024 Review: ANORA, This Palme D'Or Winner Is a Banger
The experience of watching Anora is akin to a spontaneous and unexpected invite to a epic house-wrecking party. It starts off with surprise and wonder, plunges into drunken euphoria, loses all your friends, projectile vomits on you in a car ride around...
THE SUBSTANCE Teaser: Canadian Theatrical Date Announced!
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.