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Chuko and Arie Esiri's "Clarissa" is the second Nigerian film to ever play Cannes. With Neon as its global distributor, they pair tell IndieWire they hope to build a new Nigerian wave of cinema.

Sachs and co-writer Mauricio Zacharias tell IndieWire about the beauty and horror of gay life in 1980s NYC, and borrowing their film’s title from the 1941 Raoul Walsh classic.

The director talks about his most recent film, the documentary "Marty, Life Is Short," and looks back at the beginning of his career as his directorial debut "Body Heat" is newly released by Criterion.

"Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep" director Rakan Mayasi, who studied under Abbas Kiarostami and Béla Tarr, worked with nonprofessional actors on a story inspired by his late grandmother’s forced marriage. It's premiering in Un Certain Regard.

In James Gray's Cannes hit about two brothers falling out with the Russian mafia, Teller plays against type as a sensitive family man opposite Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson.

The Polish filmmaker, working in German with exquisite actors Sandra Hüller and August Diehl, tells IndieWire about finding resonant conflicts in his moving post-war Cannes hit that completes his black-and-white period trilogy.

Matthew B. Roberts addresses the scene that bookended the series and explains why they didn’t have time for some stories.

Back in Cannes with Kieślowski-inspired "Parallel Tales," starring Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel, the two-time Oscar winner ("A Separation," "The Salesman") explains his unwillingness to work in Iran.

The playwright-turned-filmmaker explains to IndieWire how studying "O Brother, Where Art Thou" shaped her vision of classical tragedy in the American South.

Spoilers: After 12 years, 101 episodes, and eight seasons, stars Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan unpack an emotional finale with a journalist who has been there from the start.

Cannes: IndieWire sat down with the Un Certain Regard opening director and their cast, Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, to talk their bloody, hilarious, and sexy slasher homage.

Cannes: Directors Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen and screenwriter Simon Balteaux spoke to IndieWire about their joyous and hilarious film, which creates a skewed version of the queer Paris scene with loving accuracy.