Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! This year is the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival and marks our ( Eliana and Patrick (Twitter)) fourth time covering it.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The opening ceremony
• A Woman's Life | La vie d'une femme dir. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (Competition)
• Butterfly Jam dir. Kantemir Balagov (QdC)
• I can't Sleep | J'ai pas sommeil dir Claire Denis (Carrosse d'or récipient 2026)

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Credits:

Sound:

EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Former Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny

Manipulated cover:

79th Cannes festival poster, J'ai pas sommeil poster, Unsplash

Eliana and Patrick (X | LB) are joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia to look back at our top 5 favorite films of 2025.

Follow Öykü (X | LB) & Lawrence (X | LB) on Twitter/X or Letterboxd

Find Öykü's work with Emitaï, and as co-host of new film podcast Outskirts

& Hong Sang-Soo Die-hard Lawrence's review on What Does that Nature Say to You, as well as Ways of Worldmaking: Hong Sang-soo’s Late Period, and more notes on Hong's 'Late Period' Double Takes

Lawrence

• The Currents (Las corrientes) | Milagros Mumenthaler
• Peter Hujar’s Day | Ira Sachs
• Bugonia | Yorgos Lanthimos Γιώργος Λάνθιμος
• What Does That Nature Say to You? (그 자연이 네게 뭐라고 하니) | Hong Sang Soo 홍상수
• Dry Leaf (ხმელი ფოთოლი) | Alexandre Koberidze ალექსანდრე კობერიძე

Öykü

• The Love that Remains (Ástin Sem Eftir Er) | Hlynur Pálmason
• Secret Agent (O Agente Secret) | Kleber Mendonça Filho
• The Mastermind | Kelly Reichardt
• Remake | Ross McElwee
• Dry Leaf

Patrick

• Peter Hujar’s Day
• Resurrection 狂野时代 | Bi Gan 毕赣
• Dry Leaf
• I Only Rest in the Storm (O Riso e a Faca) |Pedro Pinho
• Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad) | Albert Serra

Eliana

• What Does That Nature Say to You?
• Sirat | Olivier Laxe
• Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra) | Lucrecia Martel
• Peter Hujar’s Day
• I Only Rest in the Storm

Happy Year of the Fire Horse!~

Credits:

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny

It's a wrap!

In the final episode of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Eliana and Patrick are once again joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu.

Together, they discuss:

• Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident | یک تصادف ساده
• Joachim Trier's Grand Jury Prize-winner Sentimental Value | Affeksjonsverdi
• Nadav Lapid's Yes or Yes! | כן
• Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind (which, alas, did not win any award)
• Kristen Stewart's The Chronology of Water
• Simón Mesa Soto's A Poet | Un Poeta
• Diego Céspedes | Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo | La Misteriosa Mirada del Flamenco
• and in passing : Alice Douard's Love Letters | Les preuves d'amours, Anna Cazenave Cambet's Love me Tender, Harris Dickinson's Urchin + Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great

For more of Öykü's work, check out her reviews on Sentimental Value, Christian Petzold's Mirrors No. 3, or Hafsia Herzi's The Little Sister for InReview Online.

For those interested in more thoughts on one of our festival favorites, Pauline Loquès’, Nino, read Patrick's review or listen to one of our previous episodes.

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Credits:

Image: It Was Just an Acccident Film Poster

Frame by Kumiko Shimuzu - Free to use under the Unsplash License

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: La Bouche - Be My Lover