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136 articles available in total starting from 06/01/2011. Last article published on 04/07/2011.

Kaurismaki turns Le Havre into a place of hope

With Le Havre, presented in Official Competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, inimitable Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki (Grand Jury Prize winner at Cannes 2002 for The Man Without a Past)...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition/Finland

Kalev’s Island an exhilarating, existential surprise

Acclaimed young director Kamen Kalev (Eastern Plays, finalist of the European Parliament LUX Prize 2009) playfully, utterly surprised Cannes audiences with an exhilarating title in three acts (and...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors' Fortnight/Bulgaria-Sweden

Melancholia close to selling out

Australian distributor Madman and Israeli distributor Lev Cinemas have bought the rights to Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, ahead of the film’s Cannes premiere, May 18. “We are thrilled to be...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Market/Denmark

Secrets, longings and lies taint Hermanus’ Beauty

South African director Oliver Hermanus has got off to an excellent start on the Croisette with Beauty (Skoonheid), a powerful account of homosexuality, executive produced by French outfit...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Un Certain Regard/France-South Africa

Corpo Celeste: Teenage spirituality in Calabria

Insidious charm and bright beginnings mark 29-year-old Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s directorial debut,Corpo Celeste, screening in the Directors’ Fortnight of the 64th Cannes Film Festival....  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors’ Fortnight/Italy

BFI, Film London make major announcements

British Film Institute (BFI) Chair Greg Dyke announced at Cannes that Oscar and BAFTA-winning The King's Speech director Tom Hooper has been appointed to the BFI’s Board of Governors. Meanwhile,...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | UK

Ionesco’s Princess learns mis-education and transgression through art

Last night, the International Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival held a special screening (organised in collaboration with the Official Selection) of My Little Princess by Eva Ionesco....  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | SIC/France

Europe co-produces the world

Screened yesterday in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, Bonsai by Chilean helmer Cristian Jiménez is one of the many international films presented this year on the...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | France

Everyone is forgivable in Téchiné’s Unforgivable

“You might be a crime book writer, but you’re an arsehole in real life” hits Francis (André Dussollier) right between the eyes in André Téchiné’s Unforgivable, a film about a writer (adapted from...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors’ Fortnight/France

Women plot against war in Where Do We Go Now?

The sweet smell of comedy hangs over the grave subject of the religious conflicts that blight the lives of the Lebanese people for the Un Certain Regard selection Where Do We Go Now? by Nadine...  

16/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Un Certain Regard/France

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