As the world's film stars took to the red carpet ahead of the closing ceremony of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, no clear frontrunner has emerged for the top prize, with critics hailing a strong field of contenders directed by auteurs from Russia...
🎞️ For the 21st time, one of the world’s most celebrated actresses and filmmakers returns to the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. ☕📽️ Eva Longoria opens up about what she wishes she had known before her very first Cannes experience, shares...
Angélique Kidjo is a global music icon, five-time Grammy winner, and unstoppable force for change. The Beninese superstar has just released her powerful new album HOPE!!, a groove-heavy, galvanizing work dedicated to her late mother, featuring...
As the final features competing for the Palme d'Or hit the big screen in Cannes, Eve Jackson takes us through her highlights of the 79th film festival. She tells us why "Fjord", a powerful drama from Cristian Mungiu starring Renate Reinsve and...
🎶✨ Following the success of her debut album « Eclesia », Franco-Haitian singer Naïka arrives at the Cannes Film Festival to share her cinematic dreams and open up about her personal journey toward self-confidence.
Nearly a decade has passed since allegations against Harvey Weinstein first emerged in the US, sparking the global #MeToo movement. Now, Australian actor Cate Blanchett says the movement has been killed off in Hollywood. So as the Cannes Film...
Before Boots Riley became the writer / director / musician behind Sorry to Bother You and I'm a Virgo, he was a young community organizer fighting for social justice as part of the Progressive Labor Party. Riley has channeled his anti-establishment...
Comedian Stephen Colbert signed off from his late-night talk show on Thursday after 11 seasons with a sentimental chat with Beatles musician Paul McCartney and pointed jokes about his forced departure from CBS. The final installment of "The Late...
Penélope Cruz leads 'La Bola Negra', the new film from the creators of 'La Mesías', set partly during the Spanish Civil War and following three gay men across generations as they navigate desire, repression and inherited trauma. Glenn Close also...
I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge is Polyend, a well-respected music gear maker with a reputation for building niche, idiosyncratic...
Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek has returned to the Cannes spotlight with "The Man I Love", the latest film from indie director Ira Sachs, premiering on the Croisette alongside co-stars Rebecca Hall, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Tom Sturridge. The film...
As part of a new "Reserved" program, Spotify is going to start offering concert tickets for "real fans" of participating bands that are going on tour. The idea with the Reserved program is to give people an option to buy tickets without the hassle...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a streaming series on Twitch, in which he'll respond to questions the public have submitted via the chat, Polygon reports. The series is aptly titled "Talk with the People," and kicks off later today...
An up-and-coming soul star has spoken to FRANCE 24 about her love for music, and her new collaboration with the megastar Elton John. Nectar Woode was raised in the UK by British Ghanaian parents, and is already becoming a huge star with a series of...
The film will be based on journalist Mitchell Zuckoff's forthcoming book and will chronicle the rescue mission of two downed American pilots in Iran. Here’s why it already sounds like a terrible idea.
From wartime France to the AIDS crisis and noir-soaked Los Angeles, Cannes is diving deep into stories of political upheaval and personal survival. Rami Malek stars in 'The Man I Love', Ira Sachs' intimate portrait of art, desire and loss in 1980s...
"You have to suffer to create something of a value". 🎬 Premiering in the Quinzaine des Cinéastes section, the film’s protagonists, Girl in Red and Anders Danielsen Lie, spoke with France 24’s Stella Elgersma about navigating high and low...
Here in France, political figures, including the Mayor of Paris, are calling for the singer Patrick Bruel to cancel his upcoming concerts as the number of cases and claims of sexual abuse and rape by the singer are increasing.
After Baby Yoda's success on the small screen, "The Mandalorian and Grogu" marks the return of the Star Wars franchise, eight years after the multiplanetary saga last graced our movie theatres. We take a look at this latest instalment starring Pedro...
François Picard is pleased to welcome Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta, Indian journalist, investigative author and filmmaker. He offers a sweeping critique of the nexus between oligarchic wealth, political power, and weakened institutional accountability in...
