2025
Poster about passion
India returns with Homebound
Cannes Film Festival and some guesses
Juliette Binoche to chair jury
2024
All We Imagine As Light
Bird
The Apprentice
The Girl With the Needle
Anora
Norah
Emilia Perez may clinch the Palme
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Shameless
Arora and Sex workers
Horizon: An American Saga
Everybody Loves Touda
Restored version of Manthan screened
The Second Act
Wild Diamond
The Second Act
Indian summer
Drama outside the cinemas
Iranian director Mohammad Rosoulof banned from attending
Indian movies and Jurors
Poster on Kurosawa film, Rhapsody in August
Honorary Palme d’Or for Studio Ghibli
Payal Kapadia’s film first in 30 years to compete for Palm d’Or
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga to play in out-of-competition
The Second Act to open Cannes
What is in the running
Xavier Nolan to head Un Certain Regard jury
American director, actress Greta Gerwig to chair jury
2023
Palm d’Or for Anatomy of a Fall
Wes Anderson’s Android City
Glamour returns to Cannes
Jude Law and smelly perfume in Firebrand
Martin Scorsese on Ukraine
The Zone of Interest is not a museum piece
Nazi drama The Zone of Interest
Homecoming
Michael Douglas on Basic Instinct
Michael Douglas in Cannes
Jeanne du Barry opens Cannes
Cannes opens with Jeanne du Barry
Ken Loach and his last bow The Old Oak
Controversies galore
Lolita in Tehran
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Palm d’Or for Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas to be honoured
Elemental to close the Festival
Kanu Behl’s Agra at Directors’ Fortnight
Johnny Depp’s opening film at Cannes creates controversy
Saint Laurent to present first movie
Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy
Selections
Pedro Almodovar with his Strange Way of Life
Jeanne du Barry director accused of assaulting journalist
Jeanne du Barry to open the Festival
Scorsese’s Flowers of the Killer Moon
Probable international titles
Carlton Hotel reopens to add sparkle
Ruben Ostlund to chair jury
2022
Ashkal, Tunisian title
The Cannes-do spirit
Top Gun: Maverick
Palm d’Or for Triangle of Sadness
Elvis
Pakistan’s debut at the Festival
Pakistan’s Joyland critiques age-old practices
Shaunak Sen’s love for kites
Triangle of Sadness
David Cronenberg calls US insane
Raising smoke
Two shockers from David Cronenberg and Ruben Ostlund
Holy Spider
Thamp actor Jalaja walks red carpet
Boy from Heaven
The Laugh of Lakshmi announced
James Gray on our planet
Nicole Kidman missing from Tom Cruise’s career highlight
Tom Cruise promotes cinema
Chinese animated work pulled out
Witty French zombie movie
Opens with Final Cut
Thierry Fremaux reacts to India being Country of Honour
No Tom Cruise party
Ukrainian film
Marilyn Monroe biopic
A starry affair
No to Russian journalists who support Putin on Ulraine
Ray’s Pratidwandi, Aravindan’s Thamp part of Classics
Opening movie title changed
A history of sex and violence
Deepika Padukone on the jury
Pakistani movie Joyland
Indian documentary, All That Breathes
Poster pays homage to The Truman Show
Cannes Line Up
The buzz
Elvis to arrive
Top Gun: Maverick to premiere
Tom Cruise film Top Gun Maverick to screen
Festival may not invite Russian delegations
Festival gets Oscar nominations in seven categories
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Annette
Freda
Women Do Cry
Europa, a distressing document of migration
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Matt Damon and Stillwater
Sean Penn and his Flag Day, also ripping apart Donald Trump
British actress robbed of jewels from hotel room
Rehana Maryam Noor from Bangladesh is a powerful watch
Paul Verhoeven defends his lesbian nun drama
Benedetta, a provocative plot
Jane by Charlotte
The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland
Spike Lee hopes blacks will no long be hunted down as animals
Waiting for Leo Carax’s Annette
NFDC to present seven projects at the Market
Spike Lee, jury president, on Cannes poster
Andrea Arnold to head A Certain Regard Jury
The final lineup
Honorary Palm dÓr for Jodie Foster
Films in the running
Annette to open the Festival on July 6
New dates announced, but let us keep our fingers crossed!
Festival likely to be delayed
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2020
Contingency plan for 2021 edition
The Oak Room — A slow burner with a rich horror story.
Gagarine shows pain of losing home
Sweat at the Cannes Virtual Market
56 titles announced
An enigma
It is final, No Cannes this year, at least not in the form we have known
Will Cannes and Venice collaborate?
A big question mark over the Festival now
Will not go digital, come what may
Palace turns into a shelter for the homeless
Festival postponed
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2019
Pain and Glory on an aging film director
Parasite a brutal social commentary
Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo
Young Ahmed
Parasite wins Palm d’Or
Parasite
Quentin Tarantino loses his cool
Terrence Malick
Once upon a time in Hollywood
A Hidden Life
Antonia Banderas starrer Pain and Glory
Street battles and corporate cruelty
Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory
Ken Loach and Sorry, We Missed You
Disappointing start
The Dead Don’t Die
Set to raise the bar
Sylvester Stallone and Rambo V
Palm dÓr for Alain Delon
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Usual suspects
No Indian movie
Agnes Varda and Alan Delon
Jim Jarmusch and The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die to open the Festival
Will Kore-eda’s The Truth open the Festival?
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood may be part of the Festival
Probables
Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu to head jury
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2018
Dull, but not sinking
Jury and critics see eye-to-eye
Manto and Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Nandita Das talks Manto
Sir, at Cannes Critics’ Week
The House That Jack Built
Manto and societal injustices
Manoj Bajpayee on Bhosle
Manoj Bajpayee pushes Bhonsle
Rafiki, first ever Kenyan movie to premiere
Festival begins with Everybody Knows
Controversial Festival
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
Von Trier to return
Lars Von Trier
Nandita Das strikes luck
India’s Manto goes to Cannes
Poster is all about Godard and passion
Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish work to open the Festival
To open with Everybody Knows
Radical changes draw flak
Thierry Fremaux comes under fire from critics
Checkmating racing reviewers, banning selfies on the steps
On to exciting times
Vada Chennai and Manto are hot possibilities
Cannes Film Fest 2018 – The guesses have begun to roll
Pulsating probables of Cannes
Are radical changes in the offing?
Cannes Film Festival plans radical changes for its 71st edition
Cannes Film Festival thinking of radical change this year
Cannes Film Festival picks Australian actress Cate Blanchette to head the jury
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