Mexican director Bruno Santamaría Razo's first narrative feature debuted in Cannes Critics' Week. The film draws directly from his childhood memories of his father's HIV diagnosis.
Bruno Santamaría Razo directed and wrote the 104-minute film, which mixes interviews with his mother and dramatized scenes. The story centers on an 11-year-old boy named Bruno and his family in 1990s Mexico as they face the father's diagnosis and the son's emerging queer identity.
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Spanish directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo received the best direction prize at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival for La bola negra, shared ex aequo with Pawel Pawlikowski for Fatherland. Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d'Or for Fjord.
Multiple films and directors were highlighted in recent festival coverage.
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The 29th Sonoma International Film Festival ended on March 29 with the Spanish queer drama Maspalomas claiming the Grand Jury Award for best narrative feature. Directors Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga's film earned praise from the jury for its authentic portrayal of an elderly man facing personal and physical crises at the start of the COVID pandemic. The event drew record attendance amid screenings of 104 films from 37 countries.
Lukas Dhont's World War I drama Coward earned a 13-minute ovation following its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. The queer romantic film marks Dhont's third entry in the festival lineup.
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Guillermo del Toro presented a newly restored 4K version of Pan's Labyrinth at the Cannes Film Festival. The screening opened the Cannes Classics selection on May 12.
Cristian Mungiu's Fjord claimed the Palme d'Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night. The win marks the director's second top prize and extends Neon's streak of consecutive victories to seven. Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve star in the English-language drama about a Romanian-Norwegian immigrant family.
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Ira Sachs' drama The Man I Love, starring Rami Malek, premiered Wednesday in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and earned an extended standing ovation. The 1980s-set film follows a New York performance artist confronting an AIDS diagnosis.