EXCLUSIVE: Studio TF1 has boarded sales on Vincent Garenq’s Cannes-selected drama Forsaken (L’Abandon) revisiting the final 11 days of French school teacher Samuel Paty, whose murder triggered by a class on free speech shook France in 2020. Antoine Reinartz (Beats Per Minute, Anatomy of a Fall) plays Paty in the drama which will debut Out…
EXCLUSIVE: Urban Sales has acquired international sales rights to working-titled Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile), which was announced on Tuesday as the opening film of Cannes parallel section ACID. The debut feature from French directors Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier follows 24 hours in the life of a couple, exposing the dysfunction at…
ACID, the filmmaker-selected Cannes parallel section which first championed the early works of Justine Triet, Kaouther Ben Hania and Radu Jude, has announced the lineup for it 2026 edition. The selection, showcasing nine independent productions, will open with French fiction Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile). Set on a scorching hot day in a…
EXCLUSIVE: Mk2 Films has boarded sales on Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s post-genocide drama Ben’Imana ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Un Certain Regard in May. The film makes history as the first feature by a Rwandan director to be selected for Cannes Official Selection. Set in Rwanda in 2012, Ben’Imana follows Vénéranda, a survivor…
EXCLUSIVE: Chilean director Manuela Martelli will make her Cannes Official Selection debut this May as with her second feature Meltdown premiering in Un Certain Regard, and Deadline can reveal a first teaser. Set in Chile in 1992, during a a time of transition after Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship, the drama follows nine-year-old Inès who befriends teenage…
Here is first look image of Fatherland, Paweł Pawlikowski’s latest feature that is heading to Cannes. In the image, stars Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler can be seen looking stoic as they prepare to embark on a journey. Fatherland centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller)…
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is set to be announced tomorrow morning at a press conference featuring Festival Director Thierry Frémaux. The press conference will begin tomorrow at 11 am CET (2 am PT). You can watch the announcement live below. Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss (La Vénus électrique) has already been announced as the…
The industry-leading Marché du Film, Cannes’s prestigious market, has reinforced its commitment to looking ahead as it gears to deliver its 2026 edition between May 12-20 in the buzzy French city. Having recently announced its first-ever Creator Economy Summit, the market has now also confirmed it will bring back last year’s AI for Talent Summit,…
