Cannes film festival faces strike disruption over seasonal workers’ rights
Group will protest against government’s treatment of freelance workers at festivals across France The Cannes film festival is facing strike action as it opens next...
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Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63
Director of Palme d’Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projects Laurent Cantet, the award-winning film-maker whose creations tackled...
Amsterdam to mark role of tram system in transportation of Jews to death camps
Documentary on deportation of 48,000 Jewish Amsterdammers during Holocaust prompts city to act On 8 August 1944, an Amsterdam tram took Anne Frank from Weteringschans...
‘Real awe’: wave of Irish jubilation greets Cillian Murphy’s Oscars win
President of Ireland, artists, academics and friends pay tribute to actor, who dedicated award to ‘peacemakers’ Ireland used to take pride in begrudgery – a...
Roman Polanski tried in France for alleged defamation of British actor
Film-maker held to account for dismissing claim of 1983 sexual assault against Charlotte Lewis as ‘heinous lie’ The film director Roman Polanski has gone on...
Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’
Yuval Abraham criticises German officials, saying statement devalues term ‘antisemitism’ and puts Jewish lives in danger An Israeli film-maker who won one of the top...
Actor Judith Godrèche urges French film industry to face up to sexual abuse
Star tells audience at prestigious César awards that they need to challenge powerful and abusive men whatever the career risk Judith Godrèche has urged the...
Berlin film festival announces eclectic lineup including Rooney Mara, Stephen Fry and Gael García Bernal
Films include a sci-fi about a man who rents out his dead wife’s body and a documentary about a hippo owned by Pablo Escobar Colombian...
Georgian film-maker Otar Iosseliani dies at 89
Award-winning director made most of his films in France, where he was free to be critical of his home country Otar Iosseliani, an award-winning film-maker,...
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall wins best film at European Film Awards
Drama also claims the prizes for best director, best screenwriter and best actress for Sandra Hüller An arthouse whodunit about sexual jealousy and simmering creative...
