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What to watch or not to watch – cut to the Cannes Film Festival 2024 highlights

While there’s no out-and-out masterpiece this year, and at times more fun to be had watching the audience fighting, Sean Baker’s acid class comedy, Jacques Audiard’s drug-lord musical and India’s first Palme d’Or contender in decades are knockouts

Indian cinema has enjoyed a bumper year in Cannes, with seven films from the country screening across the festival’s various strands. FRANCE 24 spoke to filmmaker Payal Kapadia, India's first Palme d’Or contender in 30 years with her “All We Imagine as Light”, and the cast and director of police…

The best of this year’s festival as selected by Jacob Stolworthy, including a controversial body horror, one of the bleakest films in history – and definitely not ‘Megalopolis’

The race for the Palme d’Or wound up with a bang on Friday with the screening of escaped Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, adding a geopolitically charged red-carpet appearance to a 77th Cannes Film Festival that has delivered several strong contenders for the top prize…

There were no overt boycotts this year, but there were entries about theocracy, Trump and the far right. There was still room for love, though – and sex. Here’s who I think will win, and my alternative ‘Braddies’ awards

Payal Kapadia’s drama is the first Indian title in over 40 years to feature in the prestigious In Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival

Payal Kapadia’s award-winning film sees artistic creativity go hand in hand with the fight for political freedom in Modi’s India