The Cannes Film Festival has announced the 2025 Directors’ Fortnight lineup. Created in 1969, this section has been dedicated to showcasing the most singular forms of contemporary cinema. Opening the section this year is the coming-of-age drama Enzo from BPM director […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Red Island movie review, in theaters August 16. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Lying off the southeast coast of Africa, the nation of Madagascar—the fourth largest island in the world—is often referred to […]

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Following up his Cannes Film Festival-winning sensation BPM (Beats Per Minute), which showcased AIDS activism in 1990s France, writer-director Robin Campillo is back with an intimate new drama. Red Island, based on the director’s childhood, is a coming-of-age story that […]

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