Mark Cousins

Irish-made films Sea Fever, Vivarium, Arracht and Herself head the line-up this year

Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme

Women Make Film, Rose Plays Julie, and Charlie Kaufman unveiled as highlights

Critic Mark Cousins takes a personal look at North’s relationship with cinema for Channel 4

Review: Those who engage with the Cousinian vowels will find much to savour

Cannes daily: A shot of Kristen Stewart glancing admiringly at Cate Blanchett is causing a stir

Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years

Film review: It’s oppressive but this is a Swedish captor I came to love just a little

I Am Belfast, a film by Cousins with a score by David Holmes, tells the story of the city as embodied by a 10,000-year-old woman. It feels, fittingly, like a long, strange dream

Kenneth Branagh, Julie Andrews and Russell Crowe lined up as part of festival bill

Cannes it ain’t: the purist Colorado festival is the kind of place where you might spill Salman Rushdie’s cocktail, startle Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt, or get your film praised by the screenwriter of ‘The Graduate’