Blue Sun Palace: Writer-Director Constance Tsang’s First Feature, Tale of Dislocation (Cannes Film Fest 2024, Critics Week)

Writer-director Constance Tsang’s first feature, Blue Sun Palace, is a story about inevitable dislocation and the devastating effects of displacement.

Julie Keeps Quiet: Leonardo Van Dijl’s riveting psychological drama, Un Certain Regard (Cannes Film Fest 2024, Good Film)

Highlights of Critics Week, Cannes Film Fest 2024: “Julie Keeps Quiet” (Belgium)

Locarno Film Fest 2024: Program Includes Hong Sang-soo, Paz Vega Films, Honors for Mélanie Laurent, Guillaume Canet

Wang Bing, Radu Jude, Ramon Zürcher, and Ben Rivers are also part of the Swiss fest’s 77th edition.

Banel & Adama: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Desert Romance (Weak Films in Competition, Cannes Fest 2023)

Throughout this story of drought, dust and drudgery, the characters’ names, Banel and Adama, take on incantatory power that’s matched by the sun-blasted beauty of Sy’s visuals.

Club Zero (2023): Austrian Jessica Hausner’s New Film (Weak Competition Films, Cannes Film Fest 2023)

Her critical admirers almost abandoned her when she made in 2019 her disappointing English-language horror-thriller Little Joe.