Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has gone on a starvation strike to protest his ongoing detention at Iran’s notoriously harsh Evin jail, regardless that his sentence has been declared void by the nation’s Supreme Court docket. The transfer comes simply days after hopes that the director was on the verge …

Guillaume Canet’s bold 64M euros ($70M) manufacturing Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom was on monitor to be the highest opener on the French field workplace on Wednesday, nevertheless it stays to be seen whether or not the movie can match the success of its predecessors. Pathé launched the title …

French gender equality and variety group Le Collectif 50/50 has hit out on the lack of feminine illustration on the upcoming César awards, France’s equal to the Oscars. The protest comes after not a single girl made it into the Greatest Director class in nominations introduced Wednesday. The awards ceremony …

The Berlinale’s European Film Market was the final main bodily market to happen in 2020 because the world started shutting down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus would power the occasion on-line in 2021 and 2022. The EFM’s conventional residence of the Gropius Bau seemed surprisingly empty final February, …

Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian and executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeck reveal the festival’s main Competition and Encounters selections at a press conference on Monday, January 23, as they gear up for their first fully in-person edition since 2020 from February 16 to 26. The festival has already announced more than …

Director Emily Atef and producer Xénia Maingot paid tribute to late French actor Gaspard Ulliel on the first of anniversary of his death at a screening in London of his last feature More Than Ever on Thursday evening. The title was the last feature film production Ulliel worked on before …