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The 75th Cannes Film Festival has opened with the movie "Final Cut". Directed by France's Michel Hazanavicius and starring his partner Bérénice Bejo as well as Romain Duris, it's a film within a film inspired by a Japanese zombie movie. Bérénice Bejo tells FRANCE 24 why her partner didn't want…

This year's Cannes Film Festival starting Tuesday has 21 films in competition, including movies from four past winners of the top prize Palme d'Or, as well as several cult favorites. The winners of the 75th edition are to be announced at the closing ceremony on May 28, AFP said. -…

The Cannes Film Festival is struggling to meet its promise on the equal representation of women and men, reported AFP. Last year, Director Julia Ducournau won the Palme D’Or award, and became the second female director to win the prestigious prize in the festival’s history. This year’s edition is projected…

After two years of Covid disruption, the Cannes Film Festival returns to its traditional May slot for a 75th anniversary edition stacked with celebrated auteurs and Hollywood starpower, including Tom Cruise. The French Riviera gathering, which opens on Tuesday in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, promises to balance…

After the cancellation in 2020 and a bump to the month of July in 2021 -- with smaller attendance as international travel was still interrupted -- the Cannes Film Festival returns to its usual mid-May slot, keyed up and fully prepped to show the world that it's cinema, and the…

After two years of pandemic, the 75th Cannes Film Festival is getting going with a familiar dose of controversy and some new snafus as it readies for its largest gathering on the French Riviera since the 2019 edition. Preparations were in full swing up and down the Croisette on Monday…

After two years of the pandemic, the 75th Cannes Film Festival is getting going with a familiar dose of controversy and some new snafus as it readies for its largest gathering on the French Riviera since the 2019 edition

Myanmar-born Taiwanese filmmaker Midi Z will be back in Cannes for this year's international film festival. No stranger to the Croisette, he will take up the role of mentor as he hosts two weeks of workshops aimed at helping young people from around the globe to reach their goals.

After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back — even kisses were forbade on the red carpet — the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal

"Mariupolis 2", a documentary about the conflict in the southeastern Donbass region of Ukraine, will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next week, in a last minute addition to the line-up. It is the second installment of a project by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was tragically killed in…

With anger over misogyny in the Australian parliament, women's rights have dominated the election campaign as Australia heads to the polls later this month with a record number of female candidates standing as independents. Also the Taliban has ordered women in Afghanistan to cover their faces when in public while…