Michael Haneke, winner of the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 2009 for Le Ruban Blanc, was made a  Commandeur des Arts et Lettres by French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand  at noon today at...

"I think one has to be a great dreamer to continue to make films in States that don't finance local productions and where cinemas are closing" Mahamet Saleh Haroun

To celebrate the presence of the President of the Jury of the 63rd Festival de Cannes, the Palais des Festivals has been bedecked in the colours of Tim Burton's world by presenting his drawings in...

The press conference of the film A Screaming Man by Mahamat Saleh-Haroun was held at midday. The director was accompanied by actors Emile Abossolo M’bo, Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma and editor...

French scriptwriter and director Gilles Marchand presents his second feature film in Cannes, in Midnight Screenings. his first film, Who Killed Bambi had been presented Out of Competition n...

The entire crew of La Princesse de Montpensier, the new feature film by the director, Bertrand Tavernier, answered questions from journalists this morning. Here are some extracts from the press...

The VIP guests expected to be in attendance today are: Emil ABOSSOLO M'BO, Pierre ARBILLOT, Aure ATIKA, Alberto BARBERA, Kate BECKINSALE, BEKHTI, Haley BENNETT, Juliette BINOCHE, Cate BLANCHETT, ...

In 2007, at the 60th Festival de Cannes, Martin Scorsese inaugurated the World Cinema Foundation to restore and distribute heritage films from around the world. This year, five of these films...

Director Agnes Kocsis is in Cannes for the second time. She was there in 2006, both for a short film that was selected for the Cinéfondation (The Virus) and for her first feature film, Fresh Air,...

Cannes Classics is back today with two emblematic figures from the world of filmmaking: the French producer, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, and the British cameraman, Jack Cardiff. Toscan is...

  What could be better than a screening at the Cinéma de la plage for the documentary Hollywood don’t surf! by Gref MacGillivray and Sam George? This evening on the plage Macé at 9:30...

Between censorship and consecration, director Jia Zhang-Ke has cut a unique path for himself in the world of Chinese cinematography. His latest film, I Wish I Knew (Hai shang chuan qi ), is...

The director, Sophie Fiennes, will present her documentary Over your cities grass will grow at 7:30 p.m. today in Séance Spéciale in the Salle du Soixantième. This is her first time in...

The actor Benicio Del Toro is at the Festival de Cannes for the fourth time, having presented The Usual Suspects in 1995, Sin City in 2005 and Che in 2008. But this time, he comes in a novel role,...

The dividing line between a virtual universe and the real world can be fuzzy at times, to the point where, when a champion video game player is witness to a serious accident, he doesn’t give...

Absent from the Competition since 1990, Bertrand Tavernier is back before the Feature Film Jury with a dramatic film set in the sixteenth century (Grand Théâtre Lumière, 8:30, 15:00, 19:00)...

  Mahamet Saleh Haroun is in Competition for the first time at the Festival de Cannes. His fourth feature film, A Screaming Man, will be screened today at 12:00 and 22:15 in the Grand Théâtre...

  Having focused on American politics in Iraq in No End in Sight, the director and political analyst Charles Ferguson has now come to Cannes with Inside Job: a cinematographic inquiry into the...