Still playing catch-up, but there's only been one festival so far, last month's Cannes, so my belated highlights:

Cristian Mungiu, won the Palm d'Or for his film Fjord, which may not sound very Romanian but it has Romanian immigrants in Norway, probably pining, so calm down.  Best Director was shared by Pawel Pawlikowski for his Fatherland, starring Sandra Huller.  The Queer Prize was awarded to Jane Schoenbrun for her Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, her follow-up to I Saw the TV Glow.  Ryusuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden won twin Best Actress awards for its leads, Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto.

Other new films of note include Pedro Almodovar's Bitter Christmas (which won a soundtrack award), James Gray's Paper Tiger (his first return to the Russian mafia since his debut, Little Odessa), Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales (a supposed remake of Kieslowski's Short Film About Love), Hirokazu Kore-eda's Sheep in a Box (a sci-fi tale which evokes A.I.), Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell (new candidate for Sophie Thatcher's next conquest), Kiyoshi Kurosawa's period epic The Samurai and the Prisoner.  Also new offerings from Takashi Miike (Sham), Bruno Dumont (Red Rocks), Radu Jude (Diary of a Chambermaid), Guillaume Canet (Karma).  Andy Garcia has a well-received writing/directing credit with Diamond (and an intriguing cast - Vicky Krieps, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman).  The first new film from the 87-year-old Volker Schlondorff in a decade (Visitation).  Also a couple of promising-looking South Korean thrillers (Hope, Colony).  

I would be remiss not to mention the fact that the prolific Quentin Dupieux has both a new film (Full Phil) as well as his first animated film, Vertiginous, which closed the festival.

Among the highly anticipated restorations, the chief interest is in Ken Russell's 1971 The Devils, promising to be the first truly "uncut" version.  An unreleased documentary by William Greaves, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, shot in 1972, features then-surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance.  New prints of All The President's Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Mon Oncle, Welles' The Stranger, Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata, Skolimowski's Moonlighting, Wadja's Man of Iron, Visconti's The Innocent, De Sica's Two Women, and even old Roger Corman's motherfucking Machine Gun Kelly with young Charles Bronson.

Inevitably, I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface here.