New Zealand director Jane Campion will be honored this year with the Cologne Film Prize.

The Oscar- and Palme d'Or-winning helmer of The Piano will receive her award, and its accompanying $30,000 (€25,000) cash bursary, at a gala ceremony Oct. 6 in Cologne.

Campion first caught the film world's attention in 1986 with her second short movie, An Exercise in Discipline: Peel, which won the Palme d'Or in Cannes for best short. Her sophomore feature, An Angel at My Table, showed Campion to be a master of the period melodrama, with a focus on strong female leads. The biopic on...

Mubi is excited to announce a collaboration with the Cannes Court Métrage (Short Film Corner) to exclusively screen during the Festival de Cannes (May 14-25) a collection of short films previously shown in the Official Competition.

The retrospective varies from country to country, but highlights include: Cannes Jury President Jane Campion's Peel (1982), a short from 2013 Camera d'Or winner Anthony Chen, Ah Ma, Chef de meute from Un Certain Regard alum Chloé Robichaud (Sarah Prefers to Run), Your Face (1987), a hand-drawn animation from Bill Plympton, and Waiting for P.O. Box, the first Syrian film to screen in Competition at the festival.

Retrospective lineup (depending on your country):

Ah Ma (Anthony Chen, Singapore, 2007)

Yardbird (Michael Spiccia, Australia, 2012)

Maya (Pedro Pio, Cuba, 2010)

Arena (João Salaviza, Portugal, 2009)

Chef de meute (Chloé Robichaud, Canada, 2012)

More than Two Hours (Ali Asgari, Iran, 2013)

Cross (Maryna Vroda, France, 2011)

Waiting for P.O. Box (Bassam Chekhes,...

Filmmaker Jane Campion has found herself in the Palme d'Or mix three times at Cannes: for 1989's "Sweetie," 1993's "The Piano" (which one the prize in a tie with Kaige Chen's "Farewell My Concubine") and 2009's "Bright Star." She also won a prize for her short film "An Exercise in Discipline - Peel" in 1982. Suffice it to say, she has a rich history with the fest, and now she adds one more notch on her Croisette belt: she'll be heading up the 2014 edition's jury. "It's a great honor for me to be chosen as the president of the jury,"...

Chicago – “Excuse me, I don’t feel anything,” announces the young, saucer-eyed woman to her meditation instructor. In fact, she feels many things, though meditative tranquility is not among them. Whenever she closes her eyes, a series of nightmarish images emerge from the depths of her heightened paranoia. At the center of her fears is a dark force in the form of her sister, lovingly nicknamed, “Sweetie.”

Though Kay (Karen Colson) is technically the heart and soul of this potent 1989 drama, her troubled, titular sibling, carrying the birth name of Dawn (Geneviève Lemon), soaks up attention like a sponge. Her unrestrained flamboyance and untreated mental illness threatens to consume everyone and everything that falls into her orbit. Kay’s irrational fear of trees seems to be symbolic of the family roots that run deep, entangling her limbs and stunting her growth.

Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0

“Sweetie” marks the feature filmmaking debut of Jane Campion,...