AwardsWatch - Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s arthouse crowdpleaser ‘Leto’

Mina Takla May 10, 2018

Kirill Serebrennikov’s LETO is a tribute to music, dreams of youth and the power – and beauty of ambition. Despite a masterful and at times... Read More

Ahmed Abdelhafiz (front) and Rady Gamal in A.B. Shawky's Yomeddine

Cannes Review: A.B. Shawky’s gripping and emotional debut ‘Yomeddine’

Mina Takla May 9, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Rarely do debut features play in competition at Cannes. In fact, of the debut features that played in the festival’s most... Read More

Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva in Rafiki

Cannes Review: Wanuri Kahiu’s touching if familiar lesbian romance ‘Rafiki’

Erik Anderson May 9, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Kena, short for Makena (played by Samantha Mugatsia) lives in the Slopes district of Nairobi, Kenya with her at-home mom and... Read More

Cannes Review: Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s immersive and unforgettable ‘Birds of Passage’

Mina Takla May 9, 2018

In his follow-up to the Oscar-nominated EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, Colombian director Ciro Guerra teams up with director Cristina Gallego to deliver a remarkable feature about... Read More

Oscar winners Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem in Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows

Cannes Review: Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Everybody Knows’ is too safe and too slow to engage

Erik Anderson May 8, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Everybody Knows opens in an aging bell and clock tower of a quiet Spanish town. There are names of teenage paramours... Read More