3 (Christian Petzold, 2025)Christian Petzold has been a regular on the festival circuit for a quarter of a century, competing multiple times in Berlin and Venice, but this year marked his first appearance in Cannes. Amid the everyday domestic routines that emerge from the realignment that brings its four characters together, the spare, elegant, deceptively simple Mirrors No. I want to see people playing music, listening to music, hearing the sounds of the world, hearing and seeing the wind in the trees. I didn’t expect it to turn into a film about family, which is a subject you have dealt with before but not recently. Working with this ensemble in Afire gave me the trust to make a movie about a family again.