About this podcast
Cannesversations is a film podcast in which Eliana and Patrick (Twitter) deep-dive each episode into one film that has played at some point during the Cannes Film Festival.
During the festival, we loop you into the most recent discussions from the festival site, giving you a first impression of the variety of films that splash across the Croisette.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 31 episodes
- Cannes 79: Red Rocks | Everytime | L'Inconnue | Notre Salut | The Dreamed Adventure · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 4Welcome back to our coverage of the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. In episode 4 Eliana and Patrick (Twitter) discuss the following films with Jakob Jurisch of…
- Cannes 79: Virages | Fjord | La Gradiva · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 3Welcome back to our coverage of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, episode three! In this episode, we (Patrick and Eliana) discuss our first impressions of the following films: •…
- Cannes 79: Fatherland | Forever your Maternal Animal | Double Freeedom · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 2Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival episode 2! This year is the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival and marks our ( Eliana and Patrick…
- Cannes 79: Opening Remarks | A Woman's Life | Butterfly Jam | I can't Sleep · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 1Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! This year is the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival and marks our ( Eliana and Patrick (Twitter))…
- Our Top Five Films of 2025 · 2 h 4 min · Season 4 Episode 7Eliana and Patrick (X | LB) are joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia to look back at our top 5 favorite films of 2025. Follow Öykü (X | LB) & Lawrence (X | LB) on…
- Cannes 78: Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or It was just an Accident, Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, Nadav Lapid's Yes!, Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind & End Festival Thoughts · 1 h 49 min · Season 4 Episode 6It's a wrap! In the final episode of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Eliana and Patrick are once again joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu. Together, they discuss: • Jafar Panahi's Palme…
- Cannes 78: Renoir | Left-Handed Girl | A Useful Ghost | Brand New Landscape | Love on Trial | Bi Gan's Resurrection · 1 h 21 min · Season 4 Episode 5Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival! For episode five, Łukasz Mańkowski join us (Patrick and Eliana) to discuss programming for Five Flavors film…
- Cannes 78: The History of Sound | Sterne | Magellan | Only I Rest in the Storm | Renoir · 35 min · Season 4 Episode 4Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival! For episode four, Maja Korbecka and Jakob Jurisch join us (Patrick and Eliana) to discuss the following films on…
- Cannes 78: Imago - Interview with Déni Oumar Pitsaev · 16 min · Season 4 Episode 3Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival episode three! This is the first time that we have had the chance to sit down with a director at Cannes. The film…
- Cannes 78: Drunken Noodles | Nino | Laurent dans le vent (Drifting Laurent) · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 2Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival! We (Patrick and Eliana) share our first reactions and give a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events…
- Cannes 78: Opening & The Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski | Two Prosecutors by Sergei Loznitsa | Sirat by Óliver Laxe · 52 min · Season 4 Episode 1Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! We (Patrick and Eliana) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing…
- Our Top Ten Films of 2024 - Part 2 · 1 h 54 min · Season 3 Episode 7For the second part of the first episodes of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick (X | LB) are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia to look back…
- Our Top Ten Films of 2024 - Part 1 · 1 h 39 min · Season 3 Episode 6For the first episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick (X | LB) are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia for the second year to look back…
- Cannes 77 Finale: Palme d'or Winner Anora (Sean Baker) & All we Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) & Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) · 1 h 33 min · Season 3 Episode 5On this episode, we (Eliana & Patrick) catch up one week after the festivities to wrap up our Cannesversations coverage of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. In this…
- Cannes 77 : Desert of Namibia |ナミビアの砂 (山中瑶子 | Yamanaka Yoko) & Caught by the Tides | 风流一代 (賈樟柯 Jiǎ Zhāngkē) & An Unfinished Film | 一部未完成的电影 (婁燁 Lóu Yè) · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 4Welcome back to our coverage of the 77e of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 4! We (Eliana & Patrick) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the…
- Cannes 77: Une Langue Universelle (Matthew Rankin) & It Doesn't Matter (Josh Mond) & The Other Way Around (Jonás Trueba) & Armand (Halfdan Olav Ullmann Tøndel) & Apprendre (Claire Simon) · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 3Welcome back to our coverage of the 77e of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 3! We (Eliana & Patrick) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the…
- Cannes 77 : Ma Vie Ma Gueule | This Life of Mine (Sophie Fillières) & Bird (Andrea Arnold) · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 2Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 2! We (Patrick and Eliana) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's…
- Cannes 77 : Opening Remarks + Le Deuxième acte | The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux) · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 1Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! We (Patrick and Eliana) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing…
- Les Enfants du Paradis | Children of Paradise (1945) by Marcel Carné · 2 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 8This week, Patrick and Eliana discuss Marcel Carné’s 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), which appeared in the 2011 Cannes Classics section. Filmed during…
- Our Top Ten of 2023 - Part 2 : #5 to #1 · 1 h 27 min · Season 2 Episode 7For the last episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana, and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu (this marks Öykü’s second time on the podcast; check out our…







