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Inside Diamantino, this year’s strangest political satire

An offbeat debut — We sit down with Portuguese-American filmmaking duo Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt to discuss their endearingly bizarre debut feature – one of the most exciting films to screen at this year’s Cannes.

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

What we learnt from this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Highs and lows — Urban struggles, queer satires and masculinity in crisis: In our final round-up, we reflect on the most politically charged moments of the 2018 festival.

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Inside the teen trans ballerina film that rocked Cannes

Lukas Dhont’s Girl — We speak to director Lukas Dhont about Girl: his new, moving, and richly observed drama about a trans teenage girl who attempts to become a ballerina. ‘The strength of cinema and art more generally is that it makes people understand things they didn't understand,’ he tells Sophie Monks Kaufman.

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Art, social justice & activism: Dispatches from Cannes 2018

Part Three — In our final edition of Cannes festival roundups, we spotlight Moroccan teen pregnancy drama Sofia, Spanish LGBT romance Carmen & Lola, and Spike Lee’s hotly anticipated BlacKkKlansman.

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Hope, struggle & survival: Dispatches from Cannes 2018

Part Two — In the second instalment of our Cannes’ roundups, Mads Mikkelsen battles earth’s most treacherous elements, Chinese maestro Jia Zhang-Ke gets lost in the mob-ruled underworld, & a trans teenage girl seeks acceptance as a ballerina.

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Drugs, drama & forbidden love: Dispatches from Cannes 2018

Part One — From the birth of marijuana trade in Columbia to a doomed LGBTQ romance in Kenya – in the first part of our Cannes 2018 round-up series, writer Sophie Monks Kaufman reviews the must-see movies of the world’s biggest film festival.

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Dispatches from Cannes: Jacques Audiard Tackles The Plight of A Tamil Warrier

The French director returns to his theme of the trials of survival. —

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Dispatches from Cannes: Alcoholism is still a problem on Indian Reservations

Songs My Brother Taught Me mingles fact with fiction —

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Dispatches from Cannes: Ousmane Sembene's Films Are Being Digitally Restored

'The father of African film' recognised via special screenings. —

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Dispatches from Cannes: Auschwitz Drama is the Only Feature To Be Shown on 35mm

Style and substance combine in Son of Saul. —

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Dispatches from Cannes: Look out for cinematographer James Klopko

Canadian debut Sleeping Giant has one true star —

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

Dispatches from Cannes: Anarchists in 19th century France

Blue is the Warmest Colour star waves the black flag. — Palme d'Or winning French actress, Adèle Exarchopoulos, is back on the big screen with an anarchist drama set in 19th century France.

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  • Sophie Monks Kaufman

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