Cannes film festival
Wes Anderson, Pixar movies among Cannes would-be highlights
The showcase has proved a launchpad for relatively unknown filmmakers - 15 directors had been due to make their debut this year - but also puts established...
No details of the programming were announced and it was unlikely that major new movies that generally launch at film festivals would be included.
The festival had already been postponed from its original mid-May dates to late June and early July.
The maker of Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing is the first person of black African descent to ever preside at the world's biggest film festival, which is held in May on the French Riviera.
It was up against films by a whole cast of industry heavyweights, including Quentin Tarantino’s latest opus, 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood'.
In 2015, the festival generated an extra 1,900 tons of rubbish for the city of Cannes, ADEN says, pointing to the last available figures.
She posted a selfie giving the thumbs up sign, adding the hashtags #dresstootight and #timeofthemonth.
The action takes place at night in a forest, where a group of libertine French nobles who have been expelled from Louis XVI's court for debauchery, embark on a sexual rampage in which they unleash their wildest carnal urges.
'I don’t smoke anymore, I do more exercise than ever. I feel more clear in my brain and I kind of reinvented myself.'
Mati Diop told AFP that it was while she was making a short film in Senegal a decade ago that she began to wrestle with the tragic push-and-pull factors leading Africans to flee the continent.
For the first time in the festival’s history, 15 countries from the continent are sharing a platform at the fest.
Selena Gomez has told EWN that while she sees some use in having social media, she believes it is a dangerous tool.
Schumacher turned 50 on 3 January but has not been seen in public since a skiing accident in the French Alps five years ago which left him with severe head injuries and in a medically-induced coma.
The movie will compete against new films by veteran directors Ken Loach and Terrence Malick for the top Palme d’Or prize at the festival, which begins on 14 May.
Quentin Tarantino’s 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' was hotly tipped to make it to the festival but the film is apparently not yet ready.
Director Spike Lee called out US President Donald Trump after he premiered his film 'BlacKkKlansman' at the Cannes Film Festival. CNN reports.
Italian actress Asia Argento, one of the women quoted in Ronan Farrow’s 'New Yorker' article in October, said Harvey Weinstein raped her during the Cannes festival in 1997.
The award defied speculation that the Palme might go to a female director, with three strong contenders in a year when sex scandals were the talk of the town.
The documentary titled ‘The State Against Mandela And the Others’ is showing at the Cannes Film Festival as a special screening.