Fatih Akin, whose “Amrum” debuts at the Cannes Film Festival, is now working on documentary “Anatolian Dragon” and narrative feature “Ghosts."

The Cannes Film Festival is now in full swing, opening its slate with three highly anticipated world premieres: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, and Angela Bassett; Mascha Schilinski’s thriller Sound of Falling; and Sergei Loznitsa’s drama, Two Prosecutors.

Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister of the semi-autonomous region in Iraq and president of the new Kurdistan Film Commission Slemani, stepped onto the Croisette stage with founder/chair Bavi Yassin.

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s debut feature, “The President’s Cake,” which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, is the first film from Iraq at to play in Cannes. Set in Iraq the 1990s, it also “fills a gap,” he says, because that period in Iraq has not yet really been depicted on screen.

We can’t just all sit back and watch,” De Niro said in a rousing speech as he received the honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2025. “We have to act, and we have to act now—without violence,

At Tuesday night’s Cannes Film Festival opening gala, Leonardo DiCaprio presented his friend and co-star Robert De Niro with the Honorary Palme d’Or. “The thing about Bob is, he doesn’t say much, but when he does,

Oscar winner Guneet Monga Kapoor debuts Women In Film India at Cannes; Tillotama Shome, Rucha Pathak and Dimpy Agarwal get fellowships.

Dutch writer-director Sven Bresser's debut feature, premiering in the Cannes Critics' Week, stars non-professional actors in an exploration of a reed cutter who discovers the lifeless body of a girl on his land.