Cannes film festival

‘We would go to motels to have sex. In Brazil, as in every Catholic country, there’s a huge degree of hypocrisy’

Film-maker Aïnouz talks about Berlin parties, taking back Brazil from the military and coming to see cinema as an artform that can change the world

Grand Tour review: An epic, enchanting globe-trotting adventure

The Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes thoroughly deserved his best-director award at Cannes

Julie Keeps Quiet director Leonardo Van Dijl: ‘I didn’t want to make a film about a hashtag’

The director’s debut feature is a gripping post-#MeToo drama about a teenage tennis prodigy. Has she been groomed?

Grand Tour star Crista Alfaiate: ‘Portuguese cinema has this beautiful heritage – the sense of freedom’

Miguel Gomes won the best director award at Cannes for a film that is properly strange, in a way you don’t get from the mainstream

Cannes film festival 2025: Bono, Paul Mescal and Element Pictures to fly flag for Ireland

Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of Sound

Sister Midnight review: An endlessly inventive marriage of perfectly pitched comedy and deranged ambience

Radhika Apte plays an irrepressible oddball driven to the edge of sanity (and maybe beyond)

Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’

An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism

What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclub

The Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flop

Netflix’s Emilia Pérez was tipped as a big Oscar winner – then an unexpected scandal erupted

Oscars 2025: What has gone wrong for Emilia Pérez after its 13 nominations and triumphant awards season?

A flogging and eight years in prison: The risks Mohammad Rasoulof ran to make the Oscar-nominated Seed of the Sacred Fig

The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authorities

Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’

Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making

Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners

Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora

All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia: ‘In India we have fables because women can’t always express their feelings’

The acclaimned film-maker on the dynamics of Mumbai, the significance of rice cookers and why doesn’t mind being overlooked in India’s Oscar race

Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’

Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940

Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘I thought he had the most incredible face. Wow. What a man’

The English film-maker talks about tough shoots, her working-class background and working with Irishmen Keoghan and Robbie Ryan

Anora director Sean Baker: ‘What Mikey Madison did was so impressive. She shadowed lapdancers. She spent time in the club’

The US director used to be one of indie cinema’s best-kept secrets. Now his funny, sexy, action-packed new film is frontrunner for the best-picture Oscar

Anora: A stripper, Russian heavies and an oligarch’s son – what more do you need for a knockout comedy?

Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner doesn’t waste a single one of its 140 minutes. No wonder it’s the favourite for the best-picture Oscar

Dahomey director Mati Diop: ‘I felt I had the responsibility to make sure a new wave of African cinema exists’

The French-Senegalese film-maker won this year’s Golden Bear in Berlin for her breathtakingly imaginative new release

The Goldman Case: A French intellectual’s double murder trial is sensationally re-created in a thrilling courtroom drama

‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman case

‘I didn’t know anything about noir’: director Wei Shujun on Only the River Flows, his highly regarded thriller

Chinese director Wei Shujun was surprised to hear that his critical hit at last year’s Cannes film festival was being viewed as an American-style murder mystery

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