Iranian filmmakers Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam’s new feature My Favourite Cake world premieres at the Berlinale on Friday but the directors are not at the festival having been slapped with a travel ban by Iran’s authoritarian Islamic Republic regime. Their absence was marked at the press conference by two …
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EXCLUSIVE: It is exactly 13 years to the day that Ralph Fiennes’ feature directorial debut Coriolanus – in which he also starred alongside Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox – world premiered to acclaim at the 2011 Berlinale. The Oscar nominee and Bafta-winning actor has since directed Rudolf Nureyev …
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Pope Francis, Hillary Rodham Clinton and former UN chief Ban Ki-Moon will be honored at the upcoming Cinema for Peace gala in Berlin on February 19. The long-running gala run by the Cinema for Peace Foundation will be accompanied by the inaugural World Forum on the Future Of Democracy, Tech …
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French actresss Judith Godrèche has filed an official police complaint against director Benoît Jacquot for “rapes with violence of a minor less than 15-years-old”, according to an investigative report by Le Monde on Wednesday. The complaint comes just weeks after Godrèche publicly condemned the relationship she had with director Benoît Jacquot …
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Buckingham Palace’s announcement on Monday evening UK time that King Charles III had been diagnosed with cancer sent newsrooms scrambling. The shock diagnosis comes just 17 months after the 75-year-old King took to the throne following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 after a 70-year …
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Berlinale’s upcoming European Film Market is promising to be one of the best attended editions in years on the basis of registration numbers to date and amid expectations of a post-Hollywood strikes boost. “Around 600 companies will be exhibiting, with every official space sold out. There’s not a single corner …
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EXCLUSIVE: UPDATE 9.30 am, 1/27 PT The producers of Daniel Espinosa’s Italy-set immigration drama Madame Luna have expressed “dismay” at a lawsuit lodged against them by filmmaker Binyam Berhane, who says they misappropriated an original story and material created by him for the film. The lawsuit filed in L.A. County …
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Actress, director and writer Karine Silla has spoken out in defense of former partner Gérard Depardieu, by whom she has a 31-year-old daughter. The actor, who was indicted for rape in 2021, has been at the heart of a media storm in France in recent weeks following the broadcast of …
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Thomas Cailley’s fantasy drama The Animal Kingdom topped the nominations for France’s César Awards, which were announced in Paris on Wednesday. The drama picked up 13 nominations including for Best Director, Film and Original Screenplay. Justine Triet’s Oscar front-runner Anatomy Of A Fall came in second with 12 nominations, followed …
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Cinema export agency Unifrance’s annual international box office report for 2023 revealed on Tuesday that Russia was the top market in terms of admissions for French cinema last year. Given that Russia’s relations with Europe are at their lowest ebb since the end of the Cold War in 1991 as …
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The health and wellbeing of French acting star Alain Delon is in the spotlight in France amid a bitter family feud between his three living children over the veteran star’s medical regime and control of his assets. Jean-Cédric Gaux, public prosecutor in the Loire Valley town of Montargis, close to …
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French cinema saw its fortunes rise at the international box office in 2023 after three difficult Covid-19 and post pandemic years, according to the annual report of export agency Unifrance released on Tuesday. The new figures showed that worldwide admissions for all feature films involving a French partner generated 37.4M …
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