Film

Kristen Stewart’s splashy Cannes-premiering directorial debut poetically adapts writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir.

Driven by the joy and confusion of a little girl’s discovery of the world and her place within it, Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s poetic, astoundingly beautiful animation feels like it’s arrived from a different planet.

Iraqi writer-director Hasan Hadi’s exceptional debut The President’s Cake is a detailed portrait of life under dictatorship, as seen through the struggles of a nine-year-old girl.

From the Oscar-nominated director of ‘Honeyland’ comes a poignant and visually arresting story set in the heart of a rural farming community.