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Read all of Deadline’s Cannes Film Festival reviews below, including Palme d’Or winner Anora. The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. The film, playing in the official…

For the second year in a row, the L'Oeil d'or prize – the top award for documentary at the Cannes Film Festival – is being shared by two films. The award announced on the Croisette today went to Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck, and The Brink of Dreams…

Chinese director Hu Guan’s drama Black Dog won the top Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize on Friday evening. Set on the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, the drama revolves around a man who returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team…

This afternoon, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof debuted his latest feature, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, in Competition here at the Cannes Film Festival to a nearly 15-minute standing ovation. The fact that the filmmaker was in attendance is especially poignant after he fled his home country…

Woman, life, freedom. Down with theocracy! The slogans shouted in the bloody streets of Tehran over the past year echo through The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof's long, heartfelt story of an Iranian family that starts to tear at the seams when Iman's two daughters are told what he really does…