Cinema and series blog

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.

Au rythme de Vera Vera’s Tempo: The Woman Behind the Sound Vera Brandes film 2025

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.

The Life of Chuck: Mike Flanagan’s New Vision

What if Stephen King’s most haunting story wasn’t horror at all, but a luminous tribute to life, memory and time? Directed by Mike Flanagan and led by Tom Hiddleston, The Life of Chuck turns inward — and stirs something rare.

Movies to Watch in June 2025: Unmissable Cinema Releases

🎬 What to watch in cinemas this June?
From Stephen King’s emotional fable The Life of Chuck to Danny Boyle’s radical sequel 28 Years Later, June 2025 brings powerful, bold, and moving stories to French screens.
Here’s our hand-picked selection of must-see films → movieintheair.com/movies-to-watch-june-2025

Champs-Élysées Film Festival 2025 – Independent cinema in Paris

Paris, June 2025.
One week to celebrate French and American independent cinema, right in the heart of the world’s most beautiful avenue.
From the delirious opening show Titanique to Celine Song’s virtual masterclass, from bold short films and cult retrospectives (Shiva Baby, Bottoms) to heartfelt premieres and electrifying rooftop nights — the Champs-Élysées Film Festival 2025 bursts with life, art and commitment.

🎟️ Flat rate: €8
🗓️ June 17–23, 2025
📍 Publicis, Balzac, Mac-Mahon, Lido, Théâtre du Rond-Point…