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Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Bitter Christmas (Autofiction) Or Guilt Turned Into Cinema by Serge Leterrier Sunday night, the Grand Théâtre Lumière held its breath. Pedro Almodóvar had just placed on the Croisette the question every creator fears hearing spoken aloud: how far are we willing to hurt the people closest to us in order to bring a work of art into existence? Pedro Almodovar I Azaes Créations Amarga Navidad — released internationally under the title Autofiction — begins with a
Serge Leterrier
Jul 133 min read
THE SOCIAL RECKONING
THE SOCIAL RECKONING When Truth Confronts Empire By Serge Leterrier Sixteen years after The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin returns to the territory that earned him the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. This time he also takes the director's chair, and the subject he brings to the screen goes far beyond the portrait of a Silicon Valley genius. The Social Reckoning, arriving in theaters on October 9, 2026, tells the story of Frances Haugen, a former Facebook engineer turned whi
Serge Leterrier
Jul 33 min read
HUNGER GAMES
HUNGER GAMES Sunrise on the Reaping By Lysandra DL Francis Lawrence turns his camera on Panem once again, and this time the gaze drifts toward the past. Twenty-four years before Katniss Everdeen, a teenager from District 12 discovers the horror of the arena. His name, already familiar to longtime fans of the saga, carries the weight of a tragic fate. Haymitch Abernathy. Joseph Zada plays this young tribute, chosen for the fiftieth Hunger Games, known as the Second Quarter Que
Lysandra DL
Jun 302 min read
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA The Hidden Architecture of an Obsession By Anthony Xiradakis October 28, 2026 marks the return of a figure that has never truly left the collective imagination. Alexandre Castagnetti delivers a contemporary retelling of Gaston Leroux's novel, with Deva Cassel as Anastasia, a young dancer joining the Paris Opera, and Julien De Saint-Jean as the mysterious pianist haunting the institution's underground passages. Romain Duris plays the artistic director
Anthony Xiradakis
Jun 263 min read
KARMA
KARMA A Couple's Final Act, A Thriller's First By Serge Leterrier The Grand Théâtre Lumière gave Karma a six-minute standing ovation at its out-of-competition premiere at Cannes 2026. Guillaume Canet returns to the thriller genre twenty years after Tell No One, reuniting with Marion Cotillard, whom he had previously directed in Little White Lies, Rock'n Roll and Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom. Marion Cotillard - Photo for illustrative purposes only - Azaes Créations The
Serge Leterrier
Jun 192 min read
JODIE FOSTER
JODIE FOSTER Between Shadow and Light By Serge Leterrier At sixty-three, Jodie Foster is afraid. She said so herself, on the stage at Cannes 2025, before the world's press gathered for the presentation of A Private Life: she had been too afraid to take on a leading role spoken entirely in French. Fifty years of career, two Oscars, films that have entered the legend. And yet, fear. That sentence perhaps says everything about the way this woman inhabits her craft. Fear as a com
Serge Leterrier
Jun 154 min read
ENORA HOPE
ENORA HOPE The Art of Creating the Moment By Serge Leterrier She was born in 2000 in Quimper, in Brittany. She writes in the evening, when night falls and something inside her opens differently. She describes herself as a "director, actress, screenwriter, time traveller." And in that last phrase, everything is already there: a way of inhabiting time that belongs to her alone. Enora Hope -Photo for illustrative purposes only I Azaes Créations Enora Hope is twenty-six years old
Serge Leterrier
Jun 84 min read
THE NEW GODS
THE NEW GODS Why Cinema Keeps Creating Mythologies By Serge Leterrier From Christopher Nolan's Odyssey to the heroes of Masters of the Universe, the summer of 2026 seems to reconnect with a tradition as old as humanity itself. Faces change, settings evolve, technology transforms images — yet the great stories endure. They continue to speak of the search for meaning, of transmission, and of the path that leads each generation toward its own destiny. I Azaes Créations Among the
Serge Leterrier
Jun 54 min read
CINEMA MAKES ITS APOCALYPSE
CINEMA MAKES ITS APOCALYPSE End of a World or a New Paradigm? By Serge Leterrier "Long before screens, there was the cave wall. Long before the projector, there was fire. Humanity has always told the stories of the worlds it leaves behind and the worlds it senses on the horizon." I Azaes Créations In our previous article devoted to the cinematic summer of 2026, we highlighted an unexpected trend: the return of silence at the heart of storytelling. A cinema more attentive to e
Serge Leterrier
Jun 14 min read
SUMMER 2026 IN CINEMA
SUMMER 2026 IN CINEMA What If It Were the Summer of Silence? By Serge Leterrier At first glance, the summer of 2026 appears to be filled with explosions, blockbuster productions, and global marketing campaigns. Yet behind the media noise, another trend is beginning to emerge. Several major films are giving more space to glances, hesitation, restrained emotions, and characters searching for balance. It is as if cinema is trying to rediscover the art of listening amid an age of
Serge Leterrier
May 293 min read
CANNES 2026The Awards
CANNES 2026 The Awards The Choice of Vertigo By Serge Leterrier The awards of this 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival reveal a very clear direction. Films shaped by tension, memory, instability and human fractures. This year, Park Chan-wook’s jury favored works that move through uncertainty rather than comfort. Virginie Efira I Azaes Création The official winners of Cannes 2026 have now been announced, and the selection outlines a strong artistic vision. Under the presi
Serge Leterrier
May 244 min read
KARIATA N°3
Kariata numéro 3 An Inspiration Drawn from the World’s Showcase Between Shot and Reverse Shot By Marie Ange Barbancourt Editor‑in‑Chief and Director of Development, Diamond History Group A Festival is fertile ground for stories that make us dream, reflect, or laugh. A temporal voyage that allows us to absorb the essential memory of peoples. KARIATA N°3 Each of us has the privilege of placing every universe into its own carefully arranged chamber, where we may return at will
Marie Ange Barbancourt
May 82 min read
SHEEP IN THE BOX
SHEEP IN THE BOX A film by Hirokazu Kore-eda The Birth of a Bond Presented in the Official Selection of the 79th Cannes International Film Festival Lyssandra DL — For Diamont Media In Sheep in the Box, Hirokazu Kore-eda accompanies the birth of a relationship with infinite delicacy. Between presence and projection, the film explores what lies beyond the real — and what allows attachment to take form. I Azaes Créations - Visual reconstruction — scene inspired by the film, not
Lysandra DL
May 44 min read
MINOTAUR
MINOTAUR A film by Andrey Zvyagintsev The Inner Labyrinth Presented in the Official Selection of the 79th Cannes International Film Festival Anthony Xiradakis — For Diamont Media "What we flee takes shape in what we build." — Anthony Xiradakis Andrey Zvyagintsev has established himself over two decades as one of the most rigorous voices in world cinema. The Banishment, Elena, Leviathan — each film has dug a little deeper into the moral architecture of human existence, and in
Anthony Xiradakis
May 16 min read
FATHERLAND
FATHERLAND A film by Pawel Pawlikowski Between Roots and Becoming Presented in the Official Selection of the 79th Cannes International Film Festival Imanos Santos — For Diamont Media With Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski offers a journey inhabited by movement, where origin becomes living matter. Between memory, identity, and momentum, the film reshapes our relationship to what we carry — and to what we choose to become. Cast : Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler Some filmmakers retur
Imanos Santos
Apr 274 min read
PARALLEL STORIES
PARALLEL STORIES A film by Asghar Farhadi Understanding without reducing Presented in the Official Selection of the 79th Cannes Film Festival Serge Leterrier — For Diamont Média In Parallel Stories, Asghar Farhadi offers a space for perception rather than a narrative to resolve. Trajectories intersect, perspectives shift, and each point of view illuminates a fragment of reality. The film invites us to embrace human complexity with sincerity and clarity. Virginie Elfira I Scr
Serge Leterrier
Apr 244 min read
A TRIBUTE TO NATHALIE BAYE
A TRIBUTE TO NATHALIE BAYE What Nathalie Baye Did Not Show Serge Leterrier — For Diamont Media "Some presences leave the screen. They remain in the way we receive light." — Serge Leterrier What Nathalie Baye did not show opens a space immediately. A discreet territory, almost secret, one that eludes the obvious and the hasty glance. It leads toward an actress whose presence never sought to impose itself, but to inscribe itself in something deeper, quieter, more lasting. Nat
Serge Leterrier
Apr 205 min read
FLIGHT BY NIGHT TO LOS ANGELES
FLIGHT BY NIGHT TO LOS ANGELES A film by John Travolta The Sky as Promise, the Journey as Inspiration Serge Leterrier — For Diamont Media “A destination may inspire dreams, but a journey can teach us how to see.” — Serge Leterrier Presented in world premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Première section, Flight by Night to Los Angeles marks John Travolta’s arrival as a director through a gesture that seems shaped less by spectacle than by transmission. Wri
Serge Leterrier
Apr 174 min read
PRESSURE
PRESSURE A film by Anthony Maras When History Awaits the Sky’s Permission Anthony Xiradakis — For Diamont Media “There are days when the fate of a century hangs on a break in the clouds.” — Anthony Xiradakis As D-Day approaches, Pressure shifts the gaze far away from military heroism alone. Anthony Maras seems to film a more fragile and vertiginous moment, the moment when human power discovers its dependence, when war, strategy and the will of commanders are suspended by a d
Anthony Xiradakis
Apr 105 min read
MOTHER MARY
MOTHER MARY A film by David Lowery Beneath the Icon, the Memory of a Wound Lysandra DL — For Diamont Media On the eve of a return to the spotlight, Mother Mary shifts the gaze far away from the usual narrative of fame. David Lowery seems to be filming something else here, an icon reclaimed by her own memory, a public body caught up by those who helped shape it, an image pierced by what it once believed it had buried. Beneath the radiance, the film appears to uncover a deeper
Lysandra DL
Apr 66 min read
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