The Latest Breaking News from Cannes

When you tell someone you are going to the Cannes Film Festival, they are inevitably, and often quite vocally, envious. “Oh my gosh, can I come too?” All those amazing films, parties, movie stars, fashion icons — not to mention the French Riviera — it’s so cool, so glamorous, so…

The Cannes Film Festival is on, which means stopwatches are out

Audience members at Cannes witnessed a shocking shot of the Tudor monarch’s bare behind

An intriguing premise is let down by a curiously off-hand lack of logical questioning in this film, starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman

Cannes (France) (AFP) - Competition for the coveted Palme d'Or remains open in Cannes as the film festival enters its second week, with well-known directors including previous laureates Wim Wenders, Nanni Moretti and Ken Loach on the programme.

Bread and Roses, co-produced by Lawrence, documents lives of three women after Taliban’s return to power

Most filmmakers in the Cannes Film Festival’s top-rung competition lineup are well-known directors who have been around for decades

Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania joined early frontrunners for the Palme d’Or in Cannes with her haunting “Four Daughters”, about the decision by a group of teenage girls to join the jihad in Syria. Meanwhile, Africa’s “Cannes moment” continued with the timely screening of Sudanese drama “Goodbye Julia”, whose director spoke…

As Cannes festival goers dodged raindrops and puddles during another rainy day on the Croisette, other storms were brewing inside the cinemas. Namely in the form of two films – one from Jordan, the other from Australia – both tackling religion, women’s rights, and the emphasis society places on the…