Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, using his acceptance speech to urge his country to unite for “freedom”.…
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Scarlett Johansson wants to tell stories before ‘they disappear’
Scarlett Johansson said Wednesday she has moved past fearing she will disappear as an actor, but that as a director it was important to share stories that might fade. “I…
German female-led ‘folk-horror’ early favourite in Cannes
The Cannes film festival has an early frontrunner for its top prize in the form of a haunting German film exploring female trauma across four generations that one review called…
Trump film director defends rape scene as lawsuit looms
The director of an explosive biopic that shows Donald Trump raping his wife defended the controversial scene on Tuesday, telling AFP the alleged incident is “well known” and shed light…
Cannes film portrays trans ‘warriors’ on Israel’s margins
An intimate documentary about Palestinian transsexual women in Israel, filmed before the latest Gaza war and unrelated to the conflict, screened at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. In “The…