HOBO - A wandering podcast about cinema

26/06/2026

Originally, Blaise was a successful comic book, later adapted into a series of three-minute episodes for Arte. Now its creator, Dimitri Planchon, alongside his co-director Jean-Paul Guigue, makes the dysfunctional Sauvage family debut on the big screen with a feature film that is a symphony of social awkwardness and uncanny realism.

A bittersweet chronicle of a family struggling to connect to and with others, offering multiple opportunities to discuss the difficulty of finding one’s place in our dizzyingly complex society and how to deal with the judgment of others.

The characters’ faces are made up of multiple fragments of distorted faces, and the bodies are cut apart, manipulated, and reassembled. That’s what contributes to the film’s slightly hybrid nature – halfway between live action and animation.

Blaise screens in Annecy’s Contrechamp competition following its launch in the ACID sidebar at Cannes.

23/05/2026

The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is almost over. So it is time to look back at the films we’ve seen over the past two weeks, not just in competition, but across all the different sections of the festival!

23/05/2026

Making his third trip to the Croisette, Argentine filmmaker Federico Luis follows up his 2019 Palme d’Or competition short La Siesta (The Nap) and 2024’s feature film debut Simón de la Montaña (which won the Grand Prix at the Critics’ Week) with his latest entry selected for this year’s short film competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Para Los Contrincantes (For the Opponents) follows Damián, a young boy Iiving in the tough neighbourhood of Tepito, who is chasing the great Mexican dream – to become a boxing champion.

You can watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/CDNQJfM63GI

Luxbox Films

21/05/2026

For the first time since 2007, a Thai feature film is screening in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight: it’s 9 Temples to Heaven, directed by Sompot Chidgasornpongse and produced by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, still Thailand’s only Palme d’Or winner, for whom Sompot worked for years as an assistant director. The film comes ten years after Railway Sleepers, Chidgasornpongse’s debut, and it is a more narrative driven work based on a very interesting premise: a man has been warned by a fortune teller that his elderly mother may die soon, so he sets out on a one-day pilgrimage to nine temples as a remedy. Just two weeks before her birthday, he brings his ailing mother, along with his wife, brother, sister, and children, on the trip amid the splendor of Thai architecture.

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/9PwzQAeJjwQ?si=UNE92rO5-ivx-6vT

Quinzaine des Cinéastes

17/05/2026

Actress, producer, President of the Feature Film Jury in 2018, Cate Blanchett was the Cannes Film Festival’s guest for a “Rendez-vous” marked by sincerity. She opened up about her career, her commitments and her way of working, with a subtle mix of respect for her audience, precision and caustic humour.

26/02/2026

We stand in solidarity with Tricia Tuttle.

23/02/2026

HOBO @ 76th Berlin Film Festival w/ Cleo Diara

🇬🇧 At the 76th Berlinale, with the European Shooting Stars programme, the European Film Promotion brings ten promising, versatile European acting newcomers to the festival each year.

Cleo Diára is the star chosen to represent Portugal in the programme. She was born in Cape Verde, before moving to Lisbon as a child and discovering a love for the theatre, a passion she has held ever since. Having performed under the guidance on many noteworthy directors in stage productions, and with her collective Aurora Negra, she brings that same energy and authenticity to her screen performances, with a starring role in Pedro Pinho’s I Only Rest in the Storm (2025), which won Diára the Un Certain Regard – Best Performance award in Cannes 2025.

Other noteworthy credits include the uniquely creative Diamantino (2018), while she’ll next be seen in Entroncamento, directed by Pedro Cabeleira.

You can also read the full interview (in Italian) on NewsCinema.it.

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🇮🇹 Alla 76ª Berlinale, con il programma European Shooting Stars, l'European Film Promotion porta ogni anno al festival dieci promettenti e versatili attori europei emergenti.

Cleo Diára è la star scelta per rappresentare il Portogallo nel programma. Nata a Capo Verde, si è trasferita a Lisbona da bambina e ha scoperto l'amore per il teatro, una passione che coltiva da allora. Dopo aver recitato sotto la guida di molti registi di rilievo in produzioni teatrali e con il suo collettivo Aurora Negra, porta la stessa energia e autenticità nelle sue interpretazioni cinematografiche, con un ruolo da protagonista in I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) di Pedro Pinho, che le è valso il premio Un Certain Regard - Miglior Interpretazione a Cannes 2025.

Tra gli altri lavori degni di nota c'è il creativo e unico Diamantino (2018), mentre la vedremo prossimamente in Entroncamento, diretto da Pedro Cabeleira.

Potete leggere l'intervista completa (in italiano) anche su NewsCinema.it.

🇬🇧 At the 76th Berlinale, with the European Shooting Stars programme, the European Film Promotion brings ten promising, versatile European acting newcomers...

19/02/2026

Three interviews in a restaurant. All shot from the same angle. It’s always the same with Hong Sang-soo. Same — but different. It’s the minor variations that create the interest.

Hong Sang-soo’s latest film, The Day She Returns (Geunyeoga doraon nal), is even more minimalist than usual, using just a handful of scenes to create a cinematic poem which premiered at the Berlinale in the Panorama section.

Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival

18/02/2026

At the 76th Berlinale, with the European Shooting Stars programme, the European Film Promotion brings ten promising, versatile European acting newcomers to the festival each year.

Cleo Diára is the star chosen to represent Portugal in the programme. She was born in Cape Verde, before moving to Lisbon as a child and discovering a love for the theatre, a passion she has held ever since. Having performed under the guidance on many noteworthy directors in stage productions, and with her collective Aurora Negra, she brings that same energy and authenticity to her screen performances, with a starring role in Pedro Pinho’s I Only Rest in the Storm (2025), which won Diára the Un Certain Regard – Best Performance award in Cannes 2025.

Other noteworthy credits include the uniquely creative Diamantino (2018), while she’ll next be seen in Entroncamento, directed by Pedro Cabeleira.

You can read the full interview (in Italian) on NewsCinema.it. And soon you’ll find the full video (and audio) on our podcast channels.

15/02/2026

We are back again from Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival on the third day of the main competition. There are some recurring topics that are now starting to become evident across the films we are seeing here. Family and intimacy under pressure, but also questions of care, power, belonging, and the experience of living between worlds are themes running through this year’s selection.

Starting from “Rosebush Pruning”, the new film by Karim Aïnouz, loosely inspired by Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 debut feature “Fists in the Pocket”, and “Nightborn”, by the Finnish writer-director Hanna Bergholm, a follow-up to her well-received 2022 debut.

With family also deals “A Voix Basse”, Leyla Bouzid’s quietly effective third feature, starring the newcomer Eya Bouteraa as a young returning home for a funeral, and Hiam Abbass as the mother unwilling to fully accept her sexuality.

But the best film we have seen so far is Dao by Alain Gomis, shot between France and his father’s village in Guinea-Bissau. The film blends fiction, documentary and autofiction, in the most sincere sense, and asks a crucial question for artists: what do we want to share through art and what do we want to say about ourselves?