In her tenth novel, Patchett mines a surprising reunion for a muted but moving reconsideration of relationships, old and new
Debanjan Dhar
About The Author
A film festival-junkie, Debanjan takes a keen interest in tracking and reporting on South Asian independent cinema.
About The Author
A film festival-junkie, Debanjan takes a keen interest in tracking and reporting on South Asian independent cinema.
As The Currents opens in US, the Argentine auteur discusses its deliberate mysteries, respecting a character’s autonomy, why releasing it in her country was a defiant move against the government
Cannes 2026 | Julien Gaspar-Oliveri’s nightmarish Critics’ Week title is an intense, unforgiving examination on familial fractures
Cannes 2026 | The Chilean filmmaker’s Directors’ Fortnight title is hewn around dense emotional landscapes of a recluse and her enduring scars
The establishment of Israel has been accompanied by a national cinema devoted to negating and erasing the Palestinian Other
Cannes 2026 | Konstantina Kotzamani’s Un Certain Regard title offers beguilingly dark visions of Japanese boarding school girls training to be professional mermaids
Cannes 2026 | Set amongst the Kinnar community, Nepal’s first-ever Un Certain Regard selection is a searing, shattering portrait of resistance
Cannes 2026 | Pierre Le Gall’s Critics’ Week title reveals tender possibilities within gruff male trucking spaces
Cannes 2026 | Produced by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s calm, reflective Directors’ Fortnight title tracks a family of nine on a nine-temple merit-making pilgrimage
Cannes 2026 | Blending existential mystery and loneliness, the Critics’ Week knockout trails a knot of French high-schoolers on a fateful trip to Pompeii and Naples as sexual desire, disillusionment and disaster explode
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