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After the lukewarm opening film -- Maiwenn's Jeanne Du Barry, a fluffy costume drama starring Johnny Depp as King Louis XV -- the 76th Cannes Film Festival had its hottest ticket in a short film. Not just any short though: it's Pedro Almodovar's queer cowboy movie Strange Way Of Life,…

CANNES (FRANCE) - Johnny Depp hit back on Wednesday against years of negative press, telling the Cannes Film Festival that most of the stories about him were "fantastically, horrifically written fiction".

Zinedine Zidane is one of the most successful football players and managers of all time but will forever be remembered for his infamous headbutt on Marco Materazzi

Prashant Kumar, a former Cannes Lions jury member, on what to expect in 2022 and why the festival is more than its ‘party week’ reputation

"Triangle of Sadness", a sharp satire about class conflict by Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, won the Palme d'Or for Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.

Ruben Östlund’s super-rich satire is an unworthy winner, particularly given the calibre of competition on the Croisette

The Cannes Film Festival screened the last of its competition entries on Friday, wrapping up its first full-scale edition since the pandemic. On the eve of the Palme d’Or announcement, FRANCE 24 spoke to critics from Japan, Italy and Bangladesh about covering the world’s top film festival and their favourite…

“Shoplifters” director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the Cannes Film Festival with “Broker,” another tale of misfits from society’s margins

In Cairo, a religious student at the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic University is recruited by secret police to infiltrate a Muslim Brotherhood cell. In Mashad, a holy city in Iran, a serial killer prowls a seedy suburb and strangles head-scarfed prostitutes. In the first film, bloodlust officials torture dissidents with abandon.…