Title: To a Land Unknown Section: Directors' Fortnight Director: Mahdi Fleifel Logline: After fleeing a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins are stranded in Athens, living in an underground limbo. Desperately seeking a way to reach Germany, they find themselves caught in an uncontrollable spiral. Distribut…

Title: Santosh Section: Un Certain Regard Director: Sandhya Suri Logline: A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh (Shahana Goswami) inherit her husband's job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the…

In Cannes this year, the Red Sea International Film Festival celebrated the achievements of Women in Cinema – both in front of and behind the camera – who are helping to shape the film industry and inspiring a new generation of talent in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Four of these women…

Title: Eephus Section: Quinzaine Director: Carson Lund Logline: As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time over the course of a day. Sales agent: Film Constellation Panelists: Director Carson Lund…

Title: Wild Diamond Section: Competition Director: Agathe Riedinger Logline: Liane (Malou Khebizi), 19 years old, lives with her mother and little sister in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become "someone", she sees reality TV as her opportunity to be loved. Fate smiles upon her…

Title: Jim Henson Idea Man Section: Cannes Classics Director: Ron Howard Logline: Featuring unprecedented access to his personal archives, Jim Henson Idea Man takes us into the mind of this singular creative visionary, from his early years puppeteering on local television to the worldwide success of Sesame…

Title: La Belle De Gaza Section: Special Screenings Director: Yolande Zauberman Logline: Documentary following the journey of Palestinian transsexuals who flee Gaza to live out their new identities in Tel Aviv. Sales agent: Pyramide Films Panelists: Yolande Zauberman Key quote: "The film came about because one…

Title:  The Girl With The Needle Section:  Competition Director:  Magnus Von Horn Logline: In Copenhagen, at the end of the First World War, a young worker named Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), who runs an underground adoption agency.  Sales Age…

Title: On Becoming A Guinea Fowl Section: Un Certain Regard Director: Rungano Nyoni Logline: Driving along an empty road, Shula (Susan Chardy) stumbles across the body of her uncle Fred. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class…

Title: The Kingdom Section: Un Certain Regard Director: Julien Colonna Logline: Set over one sweltering summer on the French island of Corsica, the film follows a Corsican mob family on the run. The central character is Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti), a teenager who reconnects with her father, Pierre-Paul…

Title: Three Kilometers To The End Of The World Section: Competition Director: Emanuel Parvu Logline: Adi (Ciprian Chiujdea), 17, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta wetlands region in Romania. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, and the next day his world is turned…

Greek-French actor Ariane Labed world premiered her feature directorial debut September Says in Cannes Un Certain Regard this year, having previously trod the festival’s red carpet with films such as Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster and The Stopover by Delphine and Muriel Coulin. Adapted from the 2020…