

African cinema, often overlooked or ignored in Cannes, has had pride of place at this year’s festival, with a record number of films in the official lineup. One Piece, 3 Body Problem, and The Last Airbender are all coming to. Sudanese drama Goodbye Julia from director Mohamed Kordofani - another debut - won the Un Certain Regard’s freedom prize. Netflix’s 2023 live Tudum presentation will debut new looks at series like The Witcher and movies like The Archies. The Three-Body Problem books in order (at a glance)s I’ve mentioned, there are three books in The Three-Body Problem series, written from 2006 to 2010. In Texas, the impeachment of the state attorney general, Ken Paxton, highlights tension over the future of the Republican Party. Omen, the directing debut of Belgian Congolese hip-hop artist Baloji, took the new voice prize for best first feature. It was also won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making it the first translated novel to win a major SF award. Kamal Lazraq won the Un Certain Regard jury prize for Hounds, a crime drama set in the suburbs of Casablanca. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and reading list picks by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg.
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Asmae El Moudir won Un Certain Regard’s best director honor for her hybrid documentary The Mother of All Lies, a search for the truth behind her family’s stories of the 1981 Bread Riots in Morocco. The astounding debut, which follows three British teens out for a summer holiday in Greece that turns dark, was The Hollywood Reporter’s hidden gem pick this Cannes and was among the most talked-about movies on the Croisette this year.įour African films also took home awards at the Un Certain Regard ceremony Friday night. Molly Manning Walker’s Cannes festival breakout How to Have Sex has won the prize for best film in the 2023 Un Certain Regard sidebar.
