Scarlett Johansson, Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor set for Cannes 2025 as lineup announced

Premieres of new movies by Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier and Jafar Panahi to screen at film festival – as well debuts by actor-turned-directors Johansson and Harris Dickinson

Boulder, Colorado, to be new home for the Sundance film festival

The festival, started by Robert Redford in 1978, will move from its previous home in Park City, Utah, for 2027

‘80 years of lies and deception’: is this film proof of alien life on Earth?

A provocative new documentary that argues for the existence of extraterrestrials has drawn gasps and criticism at the SXSW film festival

O’Dessa review – clumsy sci-fi musical is a rocky road to nowhere

Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr and Regina Hall are all left adrift in this messy attempt to mash genres

Friendship review – Tim Robinson spirals in a darkly hilarious comedy

The star of I Think You Should Leave brings a similar brand of comedy to this strange and genuinely funny film about a friendship breakup

The Rivals of Amziah King review – Matthew McConaughey returns with unwieldy misstep

The Oscar-winner’s first film role for six years shows his undeniable magnetism but squanders it on a baggy mix of tones and genres

Drop review – a standout from White Lotus excels in tight first date thriller

Meghann Fahy lands a killer star vehicle with a fun, seat-edge piece of pulp entertainment, playing a woman tasked with killing her date

Death of a Unicorn review – goofy eat-the-rich satire isn’t fun enough

Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd and Richard E Grant lead a wasted cast in this silly and exasperating mishmash of comedy and gore

The Accountant 2 review – Ben Affleck’s autistic assassin returns for solid sequel

There’s more ludicrous plotting and macho action in Amazon’s decent enough fan service follow-up

Another Simple Favor review – supremely silly sequel serves more absurd twists

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively return in Amazon’s ridiculous yet glossily enjoyable follow-up to 2018’s fan favorite

From Parasite to Anora: how Cannes became an Oscars power player

The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s edition

Berlin film festival 2025 roundup – a new boss, a flawless fairytale and Ethan Hawke’s finest hour

At a snowy Berlinale, against a backdrop of political divisions, this year’s standouts include Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower, Richard Linklater’s Broadway biopic of Lorenz Hart, and intensely sexual romance starring Jessica Chastain

Kontinental ’25 review – scattergun satire on a tour of Romania’s social ills

A bailiff has an identity crisis after a tragedy in Radu Jude’s new film, a scornful polemic on 21st-century Europe set between hope and despair

Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams review – teen’s high romantic hopes throw adults into disarray

When Johanne, at 17, writes a memoir about her passion for teacher Johanna, the precocious result rattles three generations

‘The most important thing was getting to the truth’: how Claude Lanzmann broke all the rules to create Shoah

French director Guillaume Ribot’s new film shines a light on the making of Lanzmann’s nine-hour Holocaust opus – a tale of obsession, deception and danger