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“ASHES”
THE STORY – Lucila leaves Mexico with her younger brother to reunite with their mother in Madrid, who had left a few years earlier to chase a better future. When they finally arrive, the bitter, suffocating reality that awaits them proves far harsher than Lucila had imagined. Still, she is determined to make the most of…
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The Oscar Contenders From The 2026 Cannes Film Festival
In recent years, the Cannes Film Festival has had greater influence on the Oscar race, potentially reflecting the Academy’s growing diversity. Last year, four out of the five Best International Feature nominees and two out of the ten Best Picture nominees premiered at Cannes. The festival concluded this weekend, with a lineup whose buzz was…
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The Next Best Picture Podcast: Episode 493 – Final 2026 Cannes Film Festival Recap, Award Winners, “Fjord,” “La Bola Negra,” “Hope,” “Minotaur,” “The Man I Love,” “Coward” & “Victorian Psycho”
Bonjour NBP Film Community! For Episode 493, I am joined by Cody Dericks, Nadia Dalimonte, Dan Bayer, and Aaron Isenstein, as we are back home from the 79th Cannes Film Festival, ready to deliver Part 2 of our experience, including this year’s award winners. We’re going to touch on films from the festival including “Fjord,” “La Bola Negra,” “Hope,” “Minotaur,”…
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu”
For this week’s main podcast review, Ema Sasic, Josh Parham, and Giovanni Lago review and discuss “The Mandalorian And Grogu,” starring Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White, Brendan Wayne, Lateef Crowder, Jonny Coyne, Martin Scorsese, and Sigourney Weaver. Written and directed by Jon Favreau, and co-written by Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor,, the film is part of the “Star Wars”…
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The 2026 Cannes Film Festival Award Winners
This year’s Cannes Film Festival was an interesting one, heading in as the absence of American films or big blockbusters had some skeptics about how the lineup would be perceived. Turns out, those people had nothing to worry about as Cannes continued to provide cinephiles with a wide range of films from slow cinema, international…
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Ranking The Competition Titles Of The 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Checking off a major goal on my cinephile to-do list, I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Cannes Film Festival – my first time at the legendary French celebration of international cinema. The experience was everything I’d heard it was and so much more than I expected. I was totally taken by and even…
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“EVERYTIME”
THE STORY – A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together. Struggling with blame and forgiveness, the unlikely trio take a trip to Tenerife for a family holiday that never happened. Under the glow of the sun, past and present quietly start to overlap. THE CAST – Birgit Minichmayr, Tristán López, Lotte Shirin Keiling…
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“THE DREAMED ADVENTURE”
THE STORY – The story of a woman living in the border region between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, who agrees to partake in a special deal in order to help a friend. However, this will lead her into a dangerous situation, and she will have to confront her desires. THE CAST – Yana Radeva, Syuleyman Alilov…
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