Cannes Festival 2025: Memory, Identity and Origin Films by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Richard Linklater and Lav Diaz

The Brazilian film Kleber Mendonça Filho takes the lead in prognosis of the press, followed by "New Wave" by Richard Linklater and "Two Prosecutors" by Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa.

The films presented during the last weekend could not be formally more different. And yet they have a red thread in common, a bond that the sisters and unites them: the process of memory and the question of identity and origin.

The films presented last weekend couldn't be more formally different. And yet they have a common thread, a bond that unites them: the process of memory and the question of identity and origin. From Cannes, we had to wait until the first weekend for the big films to appear, those always expected at the Cannes Film Festival. Except for the opening of the Cannes Classics section, with the restored version of The Gold Rush, in celebration of its fir…

But before, the tiny Buñuel hall hosted one of those meetings that the lack of limits of the Cannes Festival makes possible: ...