The 6th Annual IndieX Film Fest concluded on May 30 at Regal LA Live in Los Angeles with the presentation of its 2026 Annual Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in independent short filmmaking from around the world. The event brought together filmmakers, actors, producers, and industry professionals from multiple countries for a full day of screenings, […]
Fastnet Film Festival 2026 was a huge success, with packed screenings and lively music sessions. The winners of the various awards were announced, including Best Irish Film for “Wife of the Future” and Best International Film for “VULTURES”.
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival has unveiled the competition lineup for its Golden Goblet Awards, spanning five categories across fiction, documentary, animation, and short film. The festival runs June 12-21. The main competition features 12 titles drawn from 15 countries and territories, all of them world premieres. Among the contenders are Indonesia’s “My Own […]
Mubi has released the official trailer and artwork for Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland” following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The historical drama was among the festival’s standout titles this year, eliciting plenty of critical praise and being tipped as an awards season contender. “Fatherland,” which in Cannes won the best director award in a […]
PRIZE WINNERS FROM CANNES
It's all over in France. The 79th Cannes Film Festival closed with its awards ceremony on Saturday evening and Cristian Mungiu's Fjord won the Palme d'Or. It was Mungiu's second Palme win after having won previously for Four Years, Three Weeks, Two Days back in 2007. That film played the Telluride Film festival.
Complete winners...
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival has unveiled the complete jury rosters for its Golden Goblet Awards across five competitive categories. The festival runs June 12–21, 2026. Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen, whose debut feature “Ilo Ilo” took the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2013, will preside over the Asian New Talent jury. He is joined […]
FINAL CRITICAL CHECK-IN BEFORE CANNES AWARDS
Updated as of this morning at 10:30 am (EST) for all 22 Palme competition tiles
IONCINEMA (5 point scale)
1) Fatherland 3.7
1) Fjord 3.7
1) Coward 3.7
4) Minotaur 3.5
5) A Man of His Time 3.4
5) The Man I Love 3.4
7) All of a Sudden 3.3...
SPECIAL FRIDAY UPDATE: CANNES AND THE CRITICS
With the awards now only hours away in France. MTFB is updating our window on the critical response there.
Additional titles have screened and continued adding of critics' responses puts us with 12 films we're including in our analysis of what's what at Cannes
Here's the rundown on each film from each critical accumulator...
The morning of the final day of the Cannes Film Festival is when the rumors start: fast-spreading whispers about which directors and stars have been invited back to attend that evening’s Palmarès awards ceremony. There, the Competition jury — this year presided over by South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, with Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård and […]
IndieX Film Fest Annual Awards 2026 has officially announced the guest speaker lineup for this year’s Industry Panel, taking place on May 30 at Regal LA Live in Los Angeles. Bringing together filmmakers, producers, and creative voices from different backgrounds and disciplines, the Industry Panel is one of the live highlights of the festival, offering […]