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Cannes 2026: A Festival of Splendor and Films That Fade from Memory

27 mai 2026 Majid Movasseghi 5 min read Cannes2026, compétition, Cristian Mungiu, festival de cannes, film selection, Fjord, Opinion

Every year in May, the small city of Cannes transforms into the capital of world cinema. Streets along the Mediterranean fill with people from all corners of the world: filmmakers, critics, journalists, producers, and dreamers who still believe cinema can change the world. The red carpet is rolled out, camera flashes blink endlessly, and the Festival Palace stands like a modern temple drawing thousands toward itself.
Yet this year, at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, a question kept returning to my mind more than ever: is Cannes still the most important showcase of art cinema in the world, or has it become a grand, established institution that reproduces its own past rather than discovering the future? (…)

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Cannes 2026: Where Everything Matters Except Discovery

24 mai 2026 Majid Movasseghi 4 min read Cannes2026, festival de cannes, Inside Cannes, Opinion

Through the light drizzle of Zurich, beneath that perpetually grey sky that never quite decides whether to rain or merely threaten to, I boarded a train toward Lucerne. All the way, I stared out of the window, slowly revisiting the Cannes Film Festival in my mind—not as it appears in brochures or on red carpets, but Cannes as it really is: exhausting, breathless, filled with endless running from one screening to another, from one queue to the next, among people who still pretend cinema might somehow save the world. (…)