Cannes Film Festival

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Arts

The real nightmare in Sean Baker’s 'Anora' isn’t what you expect

7:00am October 24, 2024

In Anora, Mikey Madison plays a sex worker who dances at a strip club and meets — and marries — the son of a Russian oligarch. Filmmaker Sean Baker seems to anticipate and avoid conventions about on-screen violence.

APTOPIX France Cannes 2024 Awards Ceremony

Arts

'Anora' wins Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival

6:18pm May 25, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

Sean Baker's dramedy starring Mikey Madison won the annual film festival's top honor.

Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Arash Ashtiani as Rahimi and Sharifi in Holy Spider.

A man killed women he deemed 'immoral' — an Iranian film fictionalizes the story

7:00am January 04, 2023

by Diba Mohtasham

The real-life "Spider Killer" murdered 16 women in Iran between 2000 and 2001. The case inspired Holy Spider, which has resonated abroad during a time of amplified state violence in Iran.

Arts

'Triangle of Sadness' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Fest

4:23am May 29, 2022

by The Associated Press

Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's class warfare comedy "Triangle of Sadness" won the Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, giving Ostlund the prize for the second time.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks via video during the opening of the Cannes film festival on Tuesday.

Arts

Zelenskyy urges Cannes filmmakers not to be silent

5:21pm May 17, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an impassioned speech via video at the Cannes film festival. He asked them to emulate Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in which he mocked Hitler.

The red carpet is rolled out at the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 6, 2021, in Cannes, France.

Cannes Rolls Out The Red Carpet For An Expanded, More Inclusive Film Festival

5:15pm July 06, 2021

After the cancellation of the festival in 2020 due to COVID-19, the Cannes Film Festival returns to the French Riviera with an expanded program and a historic jury led by filmmaker Spike Lee.

Under house arrest since August last year, Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov will miss the Cannes Film Festival this week.

World News

The 2 Directors Missing From Cannes

3:25pm May 12, 2018

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon muses about how the glamour of this year's red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival masks the struggles of two directors who have been prevented by their home countries from attending.

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