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The Romanian director’s Palme d'Or-winning film about evangelical parents who are suspected of child abuse is filled with spectacular and unnerving imagery, but is let down by unconvincing characterisation.

As Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern premieres at Cannes, Dern talks working with Hitchcock, Tarantino and Chabrol, and his journey from playing “little tiny roles” to critical acclaim.

Exiled from Cairo after clashing with Egypt’s security apparatus, filmmaker Tarik Saleh has built a trilogy of thrillers anatomising power, surveillance and corruption under the Sisi regime. As he completes it with Eagles of the Republic, he reflects on propaganda, celebrity politics and the fraught act of telling the truth.

The first awards from a total of £35.55 million BFI National Lottery funding for Skills and Workforce Development include £9 million to seven partners across the UK to lead BFI Skills Clusters, and a further £2.85 million pledged for additional Clusters in areas where local production centres are developing.

Cinema Novo was Brazil’s New Wave, a revolutionary body of films that reinvented Brazilian moviemaking via revolt, politics and radical style – with an impact that was felt around the world.