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Occupy Cannes and Barbie Boomer

Barbie Boomer (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Marc Joly-Corcoran; Stars: Sylvie Longpré, Lydia Bouchard, Linda Joanisse, Jacqueline Van de Geer)

67-year-old Sylvie is a passionate Barbie collector. To make sure that her collection lasts over time, she decides to donate some of her childhood dolls to the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, which agrees to evaluate the proposal. But will she be able to cope with the grief of separation, especially as the physical condition of her best friend Linda, also a Barbie collector, is affected by severe illness?

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Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers (Year: 2025; Director: Amélie Ravalec)

The harrowing ghastliness of butoh dance, the freak-show surrealism of angura theatre, shockingly raw photography, and confounding-yet-dazzling psychedelic poster design—a dive into the twisted shadows writhing under the rising sun in the 1960s

Occupy Cannes (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Lily Hayes Kaufman; Writer: Lily Hayes Kaufman; Stars: Lloyd Kaufman, Catherine Corcoran, James Rolfe, Nadia White, Zac Amico, Doug Sakmann)

Lloyd Kaufman and The Troma Team go on what could be their final trip to the Cannes Film Festival.

Full Review See: Interview with Lily Hayes Kaufman, Lloyd Kaufman and Catherine Corcoran about Troma and Occupy Cannes