Short film Embla takes home two prizes from the 12th edition of Stockfish - Stockfish 2026 – Awards

The expanded programme highlights innovation across AI, immersive storytelling and digital ecosystems, while creating new opportunities for hands-on collaboration and more efficient industry exchange

Things are stirring behind the scenes and predictions are reaching a peak in the final home straight before the 9 April press conference which will unveil the Official Selection

The French filmmaker will be in Cannes on 13 May to pick up the prize handed out each year by the French Directors’ Association

Le rendez-vous hollandais a également décerné le Prix Activist Lens à Cutting Through Rocks de Sara Khaki et Mohammadreza Eyni, qui faisait partie des nominés aux Oscars

The film by French director Pierre Salvadori will kick off the 79th edition of the festival, which is unspooling 12 to 23 May

Father, The Love That Remains, Sound of Falling and Sundays vie for the award handed out by a jury of 35 film critics from 13 Latin American countries

The Finnish creator breaks down how she came up with a story set in a small bar in Helsinki’s Itä-Pasila neighbourhood

Iranian director Ali Asgari and British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr have respectively won the Grand Prize and the Special Jury Award