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Eunsoo Cho is a young South Korean director of photography. She’s the 2025 winner of the Angenieux Encouragement Award in Cannes. The Seoul native studied at the Korean University of Arts before moving to the USA to complete her training in Los Angeles at the prestigious USC. Thereshe really began to work on a number of various projects (music videos, short films, and soon feature films), accumulating almost nine years of experience on the set. Notably with her fellow student Christopher Makoto Yogi, for whom she shot two independent feature films.
Having returned to her native country in 2012, she now divides her time between TV dramas, music videos and documentaries. Her most recent work includes Sue Kim’s documentary The Last of the Sea Women (2024), about the women divers on the South Korean island of Jeju who have been diving for centuries to the bottom of the ocean, without oxygen, to harvest seafood and make a living from it. (FR)

The production company Why Not, a staunch supporter of arthouse films and discoverer of many French directors (Arnaud Desplechin, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Audiard, Bruno Podalydès, among others), has initiated the creation of cost-effective films (€1 million) with the constraint of only four weeks of shooting but with the advantage of not having to wait for funding. In this context, was produced Indomptables, the film by Thomas Ngijol, shot by director of photography Patrick Blossier, AFC, who was asked by the producers to join the crew in Cameroon. With his experience as a cinematographer since 1985, Blossier took on the challenge of accompanying the director to Yaoundé and shooting Indomptables, which was selected for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight. (BB)

An apocalyptic road movie set in the desert, Sirat by French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe (Viendra le feu, Mimosas...) is a film where the landscapes create the plot, bringing to life on screen the journey of Louis (Sergi Lopez) and his young son Esteban in search of his older sister who has recently disappeared. Begining in rave parties background, the film quickly takes the form of a very free-spirited journey reminiscent of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point from the heyday of hippies and LSD. Spanish director of photography Mauro Herce, AEC, explains the challenges of this journey between sand and rocks, shot in Morocco and Spain, his third feature film with this director. Sirat is in competition for the 2025 Palme d’Or. (FR)

Que ma volonté soit faite (May My Will Be Done), of polish born director Julia Kowalski, was shot in the Vendée region of France with a predominantly Polish cast. The director revisits the themes of exorcism and dark forces that are still very present in Poland, echoing her previous film, J’ai vu le visage du diable (I Saw the Face of the Devil). For her first feature film, Crache cœur (Raging Rose), she was accompanied by director of photography Simon Beaufils. This collaboration continued on her subsequent films, and he returned to shoot her latest feature film, May My Will Be Done, on film with a small crew. The film was selected for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight. (BB)

Shot on the island of Chiloé, in southern Chile, Brujeria is a fantasy film in which history and politics intertwine in an unexpected and very animalistic way. Set in the late 19th century, at a time when European settlers were arriving alongside the newly formed Chilean state, the script depicts the rebellion of a native teenager when her father is unjustly killed by his German employers. 
This is the second feature film by Christopher Murray, a filmmaker whose academic work in anthropology inspired the subject matter. The cinematography is by María Secco, AMC, who is originally from Uruguay but lives and works in Mexico City. We talk to her about the making of this spellbinding story, which has been selected for the "Contemporary World Cinema" section at Camerimage 2023. (FR)

Directed by Laure de Butler ("Syndrome E" for TF1 or "Irrésistible" for Disney), the "37 secondes" series tackles an unsolved mystery dating back to January 15, 2004, the sudden sinking of the trawler "Bugaled Breizh" in international waters south of Lizard Cape. Solidly documented and filmed at the scene of the tragedy, this 6-episode series produced for the Arte Channel has been selected in French competition at this year’s Séries Mania. Benjamin Louet, who shot the images, talks to us about the filming process, where history and fiction coexist intimately. (FR)

Shot over 80 days between November 2023 and April 2024, the new French mini-series on Apple TV+ recreates the Napoleonic era in a project that combines espionage, haute cuisine and politics. At the heart of the story, which evokes a pact with the devil, is an ambitious young chef who quickly achieves fame and success through his connection with Talleyrand. Matias Boucard, AFC, is the director of photography for this series - in association with Éric Dumont, AFC - directed by Martin Bourboulon (The Three Musketeers). Laurent Héritier, as gaffer, took care of the many electrical setups on location around Paris and in the studio in Bry-sur-Marne. Premiering at the Séries Mania Festival, the series will be available on Apple TV+ in late April. (FR)

Directed by Kasia Adamik and Olga Chajdas, the series "Kabul" is a European co-production between France, Belgium, Greece, Germany, and Italy. This ambitious project portrays the evacuation of the Afghan capital during the American withdrawal in 2021. In the great Anglo-Saxon tradition of films recreating major historical events, the series offers a detailed reconstruction of the fall of Kabul. The Polish cinematographer Matteusz Wichlacz, PSC, a long-time collaborator of the two directors, was in charge of filming the entire series. We spoke with him about this spectacular reconstruction of Afghanistan—shot entirely in the suburbs of Athens—and "Kabul"’s participation in the official international competition at Séries Mania. (FR)

With humor, know-how and a disturbing quality, the fake Porsche advertisement “The Pisanos” produced by the Hungarian colorist László Gaál has become in recent days one of the stars of the AI ​​film generation on YouTube. Made entirely on the Google Veo2 engine to which he was able to have early bird access, this little film is featuring almost all the clichés of advertising (Tuscany, smiles, speed, etc.) Disturbing by its quality and especially by its making-off, this second part takes eventually the viewer by surprise when we suddenly learn that everything was (almost) false. Laszlo, who gives himself the pleasure of talking to the camera - in the only shot actually filmed . lends also his voice to the commentary. He talks to us (with his lovely Claude Monet t-shirt) about creation with this new tool. (FR)

After more than 10 years of absence, the filmmaker behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now returns with an extremely personal project in which he has invested a significant portion of his fortune. This is Megalopolis, a fable aimed at younger generations that reinterprets classical texts from ancient Rome in the context of a futuristic city reminiscent at times of Batman’s Gotham. It is also a family film with many main roles, featuring extensive sets and special effects to immerse the audience in this anticipatory atmosphere. The film is shot by Romanian-born cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr., ASC, a loyal collaborator of the director for nearly 20 years. The film is in Official competition for the 77th Palme d’Or.

Opening Un Certain Regard competition, Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s new film is about grief and lies. The young Icelandic actress and singer Elin Hall plays an ambiguous character, torn between the pain of losing her man and the impossibility of revealing him to others... Swedish cinematographer Sophia Olsson shot the film, which is almost entirely shot in Iceland’s capital, and whose iconic locations will undoubtedly evoke memories for lovers of this timeless city. (FR)

Part experimental film, part documentary, part fantasy, Camila Beltrán’s Mi Bestia portrays a young girl transitioning from childhood in 1990s Bogotá. Sylvain Verdet shot the images for this first original feature film, having previously collaborated on Beltrán’s short film Pacifico Obscuro four years prior. Mi Bestia has been selected at ACID. (FR)