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Everytime, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and the animated film Iron Boy are the three films I'm most intrigued by. I also read very positive takes on the French film Orange Flavored Wedding whose supporters all said should have been in the competition instead. The Samurai and the Prisoner seems to have been the best reviewed Japanese film at the festival although a lot of critics whose opinions I trust found it exhausting to watch in spite of its formal qualities. Sad that the Koreeda was pretty unanimously considered a misfire.

The biggest competition hits on the Cahiers grid were: Notre salut (Marré), the James Gray, and the Almodovar, with overall good ratings also to the Hamaguchi, the Dreamed Adventure (Grisebach), and Hope (Ha).

Out of competition, there were positive responses to the Cavalier, the Mandico, La Gradiva (Atlan), and 9 Temples to Heaven (Chidgasornpongse), plus strongly divided ones to the Harari (ie Triet’s co-writer), the Dumont, and the animated Dupieux.

Harari’s film was in competition, the people who liked it really wanted Seydoux to win Actress

Justine Triet, Arnaud Desplechin, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Claire Denis and Apichatpong Weerasethakul are among the signatories of an open letter in support of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid after he was forced to pull out of French film festival FID Marseille this week as part of a cultural boycott of Israel due to the actions of its government in Gaza.

“Inviting an artist to a festival does not make them a cultural ambassador,” said the letter, which was published in French newspaper Le Monde yesterday (June 8).

Signed by more than 350 filmmakers and actors, the letter said the pressure on FID Marseille and Lapid in recent weeks “cannot be ignored” and described the calls to boycott the festival, threats directed at its partners and funders and the withdrawal of films as “a campaign of intimidation”.

The letter argued against the idea of “an artist being reduced to his nationality”, and said calling for Lapid’s removal “is not a matter of critical disagreement or artistic debate, it is about a desire to exclude a filmmaker from a space for discussion and creation… [This] undermines a certain vision of cinema and culture.”

It continued: “In what way does the presence of a filmmaker on a jury or the screening of one of his films make him a representative of a state?”

Lapid has been living in France since 2021. His most recent film Yes, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2025, received funding from the state-supported Israel Film Fund but was a scathing critique of the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu.

hearthesilence wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 5:17 am [url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/french ... 27.article]

Lapid has been living in France since 2021. His most recent film Yes, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2025, received funding from the state-supported Israel Film Fund but was a scathing critique of the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel spends an enormous amount of money on its propaganda. If Russian-state sponsored works can’t be shown, neither should this shit

Haven’t seen it, but from the descriptions I’ve heard Yes is more propaganda against Israel than in its favor. Worth noting that most of the directors mentioned above in the petition are hardly Zionists themselves

Never Cursed wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 6:04 am Haven’t seen it, but from the descriptions I’ve heard Yes is more propaganda against Israel than in its favor. Worth noting that most of the directors mentioned above in the petition are hardly Zionists themselves

Denis, having made many films about France’s colonial history, really should know better…

As far as I know, there is a reason that the Israel Film Fund is written to be "state-supported" rather than anything more direct : because it supposedly acts as an independant organism, but its existence and sustaining is bound by the law.

If anything, I'd guess the current government would much prefer having a tighter grip on what movies are produced, and is unlikely to like a movie like Yes.

beamish14 wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 6:26 am

Never Cursed wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 6:04 am Haven’t seen it, but from the descriptions I’ve heard Yes is more propaganda against Israel than in its favor. Worth noting that most of the directors mentioned above in the petition are hardly Zionists themselves

Denis, having made many films about France’s colonial history, really should know better…

You’re really showing some major ignorance here. Supporting a ban on Lapid would be as backwards as supporting a ban on Panahi. He’s made stridently anti-government films, including כן, and has been regularly attacked by Netanyahu as well as punished in various ways. Removing him from a festival is cutting your nose to spite someone else’s face.

beamish14 wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 6:26 am

Never Cursed wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 6:04 am Haven’t seen it, but from the descriptions I’ve heard Yes is more propaganda against Israel than in its favor. Worth noting that most of the directors mentioned above in the petition are hardly Zionists themselves

Denis, having made many films about France’s colonial history, really should know better…

Ironically, I recall she (alongside several other individuals who signed this petition) among the signatories in a petition back in 2023 condemning Israel's destructive response (and Lapid was among not of only the signatories of such petition, but also was among a handful of Israeli filmmakers who came to Jonathan Glazer's defense following his acceptance speech) so it probably shows where they stand on the conflict in general.

On an incidental note (which more ties to the Berlinale controversy a few months back), the head of Berlinale got into trouble with the Ministry of State for posing alongside a Palestine flag which led to various signatories coming to her defense (interestingly, among the signatories was Sean Baker, given the shit he's gotten on socmed for allegedly having pro-Israel views) so I sense my theory that the jury's handling of the situation was at least partially out of concerns of angering the government was vindicated.