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Cannes Film Festival Focuses on Genre Films

Updated 2026-05-15 05:20 UTC 1 source Neutral

The Cannes Film Festival is seeing a surge in genre films, with titles like 'Sweetheart' and 'The Substance' gaining attention. Margherita Spampinato, the director of 'Sweetheart,' has been honored at this year’s festival.

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Variety
Are genre films set to overtake the Cannes Film Festival like a zombie horde? As with the ominous music before a jump scare, things certainly seem to be trending in that direction. Two years after Coralie Fargeat’s grotesque, feminist fantasia “The Substance” shocked the Croisette and one year after
2026-05-15 05:05 UTC
Variety
Italy’s Fandango has scored multiple sales on “Sweetheart” (“Gioia Mia”) the delicate generation gap drama by Margherita Spampinato who is being honored with Kering’s Emerging Talent Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The fresh film about a cheeky young boy named Nico who is rais
2026-05-15 05:09 UTC
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