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Celine Song’s Directing Style: Past Lives to Materialists
Celine Song’s directing style blends emotional precision with strategic clarity. From Past Lives to Materialists, she crafts stories that turn personal history into universal cinema. In this deep dive, discover how her background as a matchmaker shaped her cinematic voice, and why she refuses improvisation on set in favor of tightly scripted emotional truths.
🎥 A director who believes love and money are inseparable, Song is redefining modern romantic cinema—one film, one frame, one silence at a time.
CEFF 2025 Awards: Full Winners List
This year’s Champs-Élysées Film Festival honored vibrant, politically charged, and emotionally powerful indie cinema—from Natalie Portman’s poetic animation ARCO to Shatara Michelle Ford’s queer road movie Dreams in Nightmares.
Vera Brandes Film 2025 – Behind The Köln Concert
No note played. Yet everything happens.
Vera’s Tempo tells how a 17-year-old made jazz history possible.
Queer Films at CEFF
Four queer films at CEFF 2025 explore age, desire, and resistance—from love at 40 to queer motherhood and lost bodies on the road.
Dreams in Nightmares – A queer road-movie haunted by memory
A Black queer road movie that resists narrative expectations and dramatized pain. Ford offers a sensual, fractured space where memory and desire shape the frame.
Body in Cinema and Series 2025: Flesh and Storylines
In 2025, the body takes center stage in films and series. Fragile, transformed, rebellious—this selection shows how the body becomes a site of struggle, emotion, and memory.
