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Still from Baltazar Kormákur’s Touch, screening at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival (June 5–16, 2024).

Ahead of this year’s Cannes, Rafa Sales Ross curated nine films to keep an eye on at the Croisette, including a tropical noir, a Céline Sciamma script and new dramas starring Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan.
Our Cannes correspondent George Fenwick tries to make sense of the divisive first responses out of the 77th annual festival to Francis Ford Coppola’s mammoth passion project, Megalopolis.
“I often feel like I’m a horse and I just need a plough and then I want to work the field. Or a dog. I just want to run for the stick. But somebody needs to throw it.” —Bird actor Franz Rogowski on his connections with directors.
Back from the Croisette, Ella Kemp and her 2024 Cannes team have selected the cream of the crop to add…
The full programme for the 2024 Sydney Film Festival, which takes place in Sydney, Australia, June 5 — 16.
The 25 most divisive Palme d’Or winners at the Cannes Film Festival as of May 14, 2024 (excluding films below…
The 25 highest-rated underseen (under 25k watches) Palme d’Or winners at the Cannes Film Festival as of May 10, 2024.…
The lineup for the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival, taking place in Cannes, France from 14 to 25 May 2024,…
The Festiville team’s highlights from the 2024 SXSW Film Festival, as selected by our correspondents Alejandra Martinez, Annie Lyons, Katie…
The Sundance Institute 144 films
NYICFF 70 films
TIFF 34 films
Sean Liu 136 films
Denis Eremeev 184 films
if messi from anatomy of a fall is meryl streep, the titular dog in this is tom cruise… loved this quiet and stylish drama that, like the two strays at its center who find each other, knows when to be warm and when to be cool. hope this gets picked up for distribution in the states
The thing about the 'dog is man's best friend' formula is that while it is a formula, when the formula works it just works so well, and here is a wonderful example of it from Guan Hu. Through the familiar starting point of an ex-con released on parole, returning to his hometown, we get the stoic, silent man without a sense of purpose going about the motions, until encountering the titular dog who changes his life. Said ex-con here is…
a coiled, precise, and patient debut for both leonardo van dijl and tessa van den broeck; i hope to see more from them both. an intimately familiar emotional narrative, yet i haven’t quite seen it put to screen this way before. great tennis scenes
She sure does, resolutely so. So does this admirably restrained film, observing a lead character who is intensely internal, with a patient camera style that never manipulates or seeks to dramatise. It's low key, but very effectively so.
Oh, Canada allowed me to truly feel close to someone I don’t know. Paul Schrader has directed an achingly good portrait of someone reflecting on their life and who they are - while avoiding any cliches whatsoever. The pacing of the film is brilliant and tone pitch-perfect. You really can’t ask for much more. Richard Gere gives an incredibly moving performance and Jacob Elordi is top notch.
Oh, hell yeah. For a film about growing old, this is maybe Schrader’s most youthful film. Gorgeous in every frame, fresh in its presentation, and deeply, deeply moving. I’m a Schrader-head and was still surprised by how honest, affecting and beautiful this was. A masterful work by a grand filmmaker. Adored.
The full programme for the 2024 Sydney Film Festival, which takes place in Sydney, Australia, June 5 — 16.
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