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Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film 'Fjord'. The closing ceremony was marked by strong appeals for tolerance and a denouncement of the Ukraine war by Russian director Zvyagintsev.
‘La bola negra’ es ya el fenómeno del Festival de Cannes que hoy se clausura. Un día después de su ovacionado estreno, sus directores, Javier Ambrossi y Javier Calvo, repasan su presente y su futuro,…
Directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known as Los Javis, discussed the casting of Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close in their epic film 'La Bola Negra' (The Black Ball), which has also received positive reviews as a vivid and sweeping drama about gay men in war-torn Spain, highlighted at Cannes.
The Cannes Film Festival refuses to allow artificial intelligence to "dictate the law" in cinema, said the president of the event on the Croisette, Iris Knobloch, on Thursday, at the opening...
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's film "Fjord" was awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2026. This marks Mungiu's second Palme d'Or, placing him among an elite group of directors.
Penélope Cruz's film 'La Bola Negra' received a 20-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, moving the actress to tears. Cruz also revealed a past health scare where she was warned of a brain aneurysm during a film shoot.
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo's new film, which passionately explores Federico García Lorca's silenced homosexuality through his unfinished work, has been enthusiastically received at Cannes.
"It is born with the will to create an intimate and very personal portrait of the contemporary woman, delving into the difficulties of raising a child alone"
The Cannes Film Festival awarded the Best Director prize ex aequo to Pawel Pawlikowski and the Spanish directing duo 'Los Javis'. The festival also saw Tao Okamoto share the Best Actress award, a first for a Japanese actor.
The record is held by 'Pan's Labyrinth', which in 2006 had the audience on their feet applauding for 22 minutes.
Spanish directors Los Javis are competing for the Palme d'Or with their film 'La bola negra', which explores what it means to be homosexual in three different eras of Spain, while also speaking out against attempts to normalize fascism.