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Cannes Film Festival unveils 2025 lineup with Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson and Ari Aster

The 2025 vintage is looking big, bold and star-studded.... Here's everything you need to know about the line-up of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Euronews

Plan 75 review – Japanese euthanasia drama grapples with tough questions

Japan’s over-75s are offered a painless death in exchange for a modest payment in Chie Hayakawa’s slow-burning film

The Guardian - UK

Plan 75 review – life is terminated at 75 in melancholy anti-euthanasia drama

To combat an ageing population, a future Japan passes a law to pay older citizens to sign up for an easeful death, in this weird and poignant film

The Guardian - UK

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When 75 is time to die: the horrifically plausible film imagining state-run euthanasia in Japan

Japan’s ageing and lonely population is reaching crisis point. What’s the solution? The director of Plan 75, about a programme of voluntary suicide, explains why her film is ‘far from impossible’

The Guardian - UK

Dystopian euthanasia for the elderly

Director Chie Hayakwa discusses her film that probes younger generations' growing hostility to seniors in Japan

Salon

Ranked: 12 best Asian films of 2022, with trailers

Tom Cruise and James Cameron may be vying for global box office dominance this year, but there has been no shortage of films emerging from Asia to delight, inspire and provoke audiences around the world.

Bangkok Post

Koreeda film's lead actor wins at Cannes

CANNES, France -- Song Kang-ho of South Korea won best actor for his role in "Broker," directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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