CANNES: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s latest film Young Mothers screens in competition in Cannes this year and it is hard to think of anyone with a more successful Cannes track record than this Belgian directing duo.

CANNES: Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa takes us back to the dark days of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union for his historical drama Two Prosecutors that screens in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

CANNES: American director Kelly Reichardt’s film The Mastermind screens in competition in the final days of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Known for her minimalist films that focus on American working-class characters often in small towns she brings her own brand of humour and sadness to the struggles of the everyday man.

CANNES: American filmmaker Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme screens in competition in Cannes this year. This is his fourth time in competition with Asteroid City (2023), The French Dispatch (2021), and Moonrise Kingdom, the film that opened the Festival de Cannes in 2012, all screening in competition in Cannes also. Clearly the Cannes selectors like his unique eccentric style.

CANNES: American director Richard Linklater’s docudrama Nouvelle Vague, which screens in competition in Cannes this year, is his homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave.  Linklater is more frequently identified in Europe with the Berlin Film Festival with his acclaimed film trilogy starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013) all unspooling in Berlin, and in 2025 his film Blue Moon, which also starred Ethan Hawke. Although his Fast Food Nation (2006) did screen in competition in Cannes.

KARLOVY VARY: New films by Bence Fliegauf, Vytautas Katkus, Miro Remo and Ondřej Provazník will compete in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (4 – 12 July 2025).

VALLETTA: Over 40 films from more than 20 countries (including 10 films in the Competition, 12 films out of competition, and six films in the environment-themed Mare Nostrum section), will screen at the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival. From 21 to 29 June 2025, the festival will also celebrate the centenary of filmmaking in Malta.

VALLETTA: The Malta film industry has had a major positive impact on the Malta economy over the past five years generating a billion Euros into the Maltese economy.

CANNES: The Competition Jury of the 78th Cannes Film Festival (13-24 May 2025), headed by French Actress Juliette Binoche, gave the Palm d'Or to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, a coproduction between France, Luxembourg and Iran.

CANNES: The Estonian/Armenian/French coproduction Winter in March directed by Natalia Mirzoyan received the 3rd Prize ex-aequo in la Cinef competition on 22 May 2025.