The establishment of Israel has been accompanied by a national cinema devoted to negating and erasing the Palestinian Other
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.
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
Cannes 2026 | This standout Un Certain Regard title poses sharp reflections on the young, stranded between idealism, political binaries and adults who’ve long cast away humanity
The Bangladeshi filmmaker returns five years after his Cannes Un Certain Regard breakout, Rehana Maryam Noor
Nicholas Braun and Nicholas Galitzine compete as scene-stealers in a joyous, brisk whodunnit that's pure pleasure to sink into
Barrera faced severe consequences for speaking out on Palestine
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