Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski, the oldest director in competition this year, chronicles the adventures–high and low– in the life of a donkey traveling across Europe as it passes through various hands and tries to find some peace.

Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor offer a terrifying inside look into the world of invasive medical procedures in Parisian hospitals.

Cannes Film Fest (In Competition) Vet indie director James Gray (Ad Astra, The Yards) returns to the 1980s and the neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he grew up. He offers a loving but unvarnished family portrait that traces the seeds from which he the artist has evolved and the lessons, especially racial and interracial, which […]

Under the Fig Trees (Directors’ Fortnight) Erige Sehiri’s intimate and original feature debut, Under the Fig Trees, chronicles the lives of women seldom appearing in screen–a group of Tunisian fig harvesters. The stories are rooted in realism. | Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Trailing the characters as they pick fruit, gossip, sing, quarrel, and […]