Cannes 2024: Reflecting on the Directors’ Fortnight, balancing charm and vanity
In his second year heading this section of the Cannes Festival, Julien Rejl embraced eclecticism to showcase a broad spectrum of global independent films.
Cannes 2024: Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian filmmaker on the run
The multi-award-winning Iranian director, who fled Iran clandestinely to escape a lengthy prison sentence, is presenting his latest film, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig,' in competition on Friday.
Saint-Denis, cradle of rap and the French hip-hop movement
In the early 1990s, Saint-Denis was a gloomy suburb, stricken by deindustrialization, unemployment and drug abuse. It was on this fertile ground that the hip-hop movement emerged in France. The…
Cannes 2024: ‘Anora’ by American Sean Baker wins Palme d’Or
It's the fifth straight Palme d'Or won by specialty distributor Neon, following 'Parasite,' 'Titane,' 'Triangle of Sadness' and 'Anatomy of a Fall.' The jury awarded a special prize to Mohammad…
‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘It’s a Small World’ composer Richard Sherman dies at 95
Sherman, together with his late brother Robert, won two Academy Awards for Walt Disney's 1964 smash 'Mary Poppins.'
‘Let It Be’: Peter Jackson and Disney bring Beatles documentary back from oblivion
Released in 1970, Michael Lindsay-Hogg's documentary on The Beatles, which had not been seen for over half a century, was restored by Peter Jackson’s production company.
Cannes 2024: From New York to Tehran, winners worthy of a lush festival
Greta Gerwig's jury gave the Palme d'Or to Sean Baker's 'Anora' and awarded the Best Actress Prize to the female cast of Jacques Audiard's 'Emilia Perez.' Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof,…
‘Saving Private Ryan’ returns to French cinemas for D-Day anniversary
Steven Spielberg's epic will be shown in around 300 French cinemas on June 6, the massive World War II operation's 80th anniversary.
Syrian exiles hunt down Assad’s torturers in gripping Cannes thriller
“Ghost Trail”, which opened the Critics’ Week sidebar in Cannes this week, follows a Syrian exile’s pursuit of the man who tortured him during the country’s civil war. FRANCE 24 spoke…
77th Cannes Film Festival: ‘An enigma about a trans woman who ran from Gaza’
Few films linked to the Gaza war are screening in this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Despite its title, "The Belle of Gaza'', a documentary out of competition, bears little relation to…
