PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews David Zonana, director of the film Heroico.
David Zonana’s Heroico, screening in the Panorama section at the 73rd Berlinale unveils how violence and toxic masculinity is still systemic in nowadays Mexico through the story of a 18-year-old Luis joining the national military academy.
Heroico: Luis, an 18-year-old boy with Indigenous roots, enters the Heroic Military College in hopes of ensuring a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to turn him into a perfect soldier.
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For the first time in its history, the Cannes Film Festival reveals two official posters for its 78th edition, inspired by Claude Lelouch’s 1966 Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece A Man and a Woman.
Alice Rohrwacher has been appointed President of the Caméra d’or Jury at Cannes 2025. Known for her poetic and visionary cinema, Rohrwacher will award the best first feature at the festival’s closing ceremony on May 24.