A top aide close to South Korea's disgraced former president was sentenced to three years Thursday for blacklisting nearly 10,000 artists seen as critical of Park Geun-Hye's government. The ruling is...
Topless activists interrupted a concert by Woody Allen in Germany, calling for an end to the "culture of silence" around sexual abuse allegations against the US director. The German branch of the...
Egg Films’ Sunu took home Gold, two Silvers and Bronze in the Entertainment, Entertainment for Music and Media categories at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the world’s most...
Rapper M.anifest last night won an award at the 2017 International Midem Awards held in Cannes, France. The second edition of the awards scheme took place at the Majestic Hotel, and saw four...
Japan's Cannes prodigy Naomi Kawase believes Netflix can help unleash the creativity of her country's film industry, despite the eruption of a row over the American streaming giant that marred the...
A top South Korean cinema chain said Thursday it would not screen a Netflix-backed blockbuster if the US streaming giant insists on releasing the film online simultaneously. The movie, "Okja,"...
Rapper M.anifest headlined the 2017 Midem Artist Accelerator concert at the Majestic Hotel – Beach in Cannes, France last night. He performed on the main stage at the event, an international...
Representatives from Scratch Studios & Entertainment Limited in Accra will be attending this year’s edition of Marché International du Disque et de l’Edition Musicale (Midem) to be held in...
Art world satire The Square, directed by Ruben Ostlund, has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The Swedish title was one of 19 films competing for the prestigious Palme d’Or, in the...
After 12 days of red carpet glamour, political fashion statements and wardrobe malfunctions, here are the looks that turned heads at the Cannes film festival. Gowns slashed almost to the hip were...
An Iranian film-maker who was jailed for "anti-regime propaganda" won the top prize at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes film festival Saturday. Mohammad Rasoulof won for "Lerd" about a man...
Hollywood actor Joaquin Phoenix wowed Cannes Saturday as a hammer-wielding hitman tasked with saving a young girl from an elite prostitution ring, in a thriller he said had a feminist twist. "You...
In the hierarchy of world cinema, Hollywood is at the top. Then comes Bollywood and Nigeria's Nollywood. And then "way, way below comes us," says Salim Shaheen, a chubby Afghan actor who is his...
Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell said Wednesday they wanted to throw their star power behind more movies made by women, after the Cannes premiere of their battle-of-the-sexes thriller....
Young actors are making waves at this year's Cannes film festival -- often in films that are hardly suitable children's viewing. AFP takes a look at some of the kids who are making a splash: Starring...
A new documentary warns of Israel's slow "suicide" if it pushes ahead and annexes large swathes of the West Bank. "West of the Jordan River", by acclaimed Israeli director Amos Gitai, claims the...
Beyond the gleaming towers of modern high-tech Seoul, it is the dark past of South Korea's years of dictatorship, violence and upheaval that have inspired the country's staggering rise as a cinematic...
Elvis Presley's car has broken down and a cowboy's career is over. In the days of Donald Trump, movies showing at the Cannes festival are taking a long, hard look at the American Dream. Film-makers...
The Cannes film festival -- the world's greatest movie showcase -- celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. AFP asked actors and directors who made their names at the festival to recount their...
A documentary premiering at Cannes Saturday takes a road trip through Donald Trump country in Elvis Presley's old Rolls-Royce, depicting the King's rise and fall as a symbol for a vanishing American...
