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18 posts since 2026.
I always look forward to seeing LGBTQ+ stories represented within the Official Selection at Cannes. Beyond questions of representation itself, there is something important about seeing directors openly explore themes of identity, intimacy and social pressure within one of the most visible spaces in world cinema. It becomes even more exciting when the filmmaker has already demonstrated a distinctive and emotionally sensitive voice.
Coward
WF 04 · Waiting For · 5 min
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Few directors make me question the morality of their characters’ decisions the way Cristian Mungiu does. I still remember the first time I watched 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. At eighteen years old, it felt completely different from the kind of cinema I was used to.
Fjord
WF 03 · Waiting For · 5 min
WF 03
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Paweł Pawlikowski has spent his career making films about people displaced from the places that shaped them — and no one has made that feeling look quite like this. Ida gave me a kind of cinematic silence I hadn't experienced before. Cold War gave me the most honest portrait of love I've seen on screen. Now he returns with Fatherland, shot in German, starring Sandra Hüller, and once again photographed by Łukasz Żal. I've been waiting for this one.
Vaterland
WF 02 · Waiting For
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Few directors have built a career as quietly devastating as Andrey Zvyagintsev's. Golden Lion. Cannes. An Oscar nomination. Then silence, a near-fatal illness, a war, and a country he chose not to return to. Now, almost a decade after Loveless, he is back with Minotaur, filmed in Riga but set in the Russia he left behind. This is the film I am most eager to watch in 2026.
Minotaur
WF 01 · Waiting For · 6 min
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