From June 11 to July 19, the United States, Canada and Mexico will host the largest edition in the tournament’s history: 48 teams, 104 matches, 16 host cities spread across three time zones and one continental market of half a billion consumers. With a record ten African sides on the roster, the delisting of a...

One runs Africa’s biggest bank. One governs a country at war. One holds a presidency, one a 130,000-strong empire, one the rules of world trade. None of them was supposed to be here — and that is exactly why they are. The story of five women who didn’t break into power so much as out-calculate...

Eleven days of cinema, twenty-two films in competition, a jury chaired for the first time in history by a South Korean filmmaker, and, at the end of the red carpet, a Romanian triumph. On Saturday 23 May, the jury of the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival delivered its verdict, awarding the supreme prize...

Following Iraq in 2025, Rwanda makes its mark on the Croisette. The Caméra d’Or jury, presided over by Monia Chokri, has crowned Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo’s Ben’Imana, a deeply moving work about reconciliation. Chosen from among 30 debut feature films, this drama, presented in the Un Certain Regard section, confirms the powerful emergence of a new...