Bélinda Ibrahim 21/05 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cannes Film Festival Cinema France Culture Cannes 2025
It’s easy to assume that Cannes winds down after the last screening, that the gowns are packed away and everything fades into the next day’s headlines. But that’s a misconception of the true rhythm of the Croisette. After 8 PM, a different atmosphere takes over. A cinema without screens, yet one where everything can begin. This parallel ...
This is Beirut 21/05 16:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cannes 2025 Julien Assange Eugene Jarecki Documentary France US Culture
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has recovered well after his release from jail last year, his wife told AFP ahead of the premiere of a documentary Wednesday that includes never-seen-before footage of the whistleblower. Assange is at the Cannes Festival to promote the documentary by American filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who said he was trying to ...
This is Beirut 21/05 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kristen Stewart Cannes Film Festival Cinema Cannes2025 Culture France
"I can't wait to make 10 more movies," Kristen Stewart told AFP the morning after making what Rolling Stone called "one hell of a directorial debut" at the Cannes Film Festival. Nor can film critics, judging from the rave reviews of The Chronology of Water, her startling take on the American swimmer Lidia Yuknavitch's visceral memoir of surviving ...
This is Beirut 21/05 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cannes 2025 ‘Mama’ Maids Israel France Cuture
Director Or Sinai didn't have to go far to find the subject of her acclaimed debut film about the secret lives of the millions of women who support their families back home by being domestic workers abroad. She was chatting to the "wonderful Ukrainian woman" who looks at her mother, who has Parkinson's Disease, when the housekeeper started ...
This is Beirut 21/05 10:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Boualem Sansal Algeria Censorship Culture Prize France
Boualem Sansal, who has been jailed in Algeria for six months, was awarded the international Cino del Duca Prize on Wednesday. The French literary prize honors "the strength of a writer who (...) continues to make their free voice heard." Recognized for his entire body of work, Boualem Sansal joins the ranks of past laureates like Andrei ...
Marie-Christine Tayah 20/05 19:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Fashion Cannes Film Festival France Cannes2025 Culture Glamour
The 2025 edition reasserts the Festival’s fashion authority with a stricter code for gala events. Published just one day before the opening ceremony, it caught publicists, fashion houses, and celebrities by surprise. According to the official site: “For gala screenings at the Grand Théâtre Lumière around 7 PM and 10 PM, formal attire ...
This is Beirut 20/05 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cannes 2025 The brothers Dassler Series Puma-Adidas Germany France Culture
The bitter brotherly feud that sparked the creation of sports-shoe brands Adidas and Puma in the same small German town in the 1940s is to be turned into a television series with the help of family archives, its producers announced Sunday. Hollywood-based film producer No Fat Ego is backing the project, which has the blessing of the family behind ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 20/05 17:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Festival Cannes Cinema Red Carpet France
In Cannes, everything seems to float. Spectacular gowns, knowing glances and intense spotlight beams. Yet, beneath this radiant veneer, hundreds of anonymous figures move quietly behind the scenes. They don’t climb the steps or feature in Instagram stories. But without them, the red carpet would simply be a piece of red fabric. Every ...
This is Beirut 20/05 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Denzel Washington Cannes Film Festival France Cannes2025 Culture Cinema
A hard-hitting Egyptian political thriller shook up the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, just before a surprise Honorary Palme d’Or was awarded to Hollywood icon Denzel Washington. The evening also marked the return of French director Julia Ducournau, four years after her explosive win with Titane. The event had been kept tightly under wraps: ...
This is Beirut 20/05 15:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Pierpaolo Piccioli Fashion Balenciaga Art Design Culture
Italian designer Pierpaolo Piccioli has been named creative director at fashion house Balenciaga, taking over from Georgian designer Demna, parent company Kering said Monday. Piccioli, who previously worked at Valentino, will present his first collection in October, after Demna left for Gucci, said the French conglomerate, which owns both ...
This is Beirut 20/05 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Scarlett Johansson Cannes Film Festival Cinema Culture Cannes France
Scarlett Johansson won praise from veteran filmmaker Wes Anderson as she nervously prepared to unveil her debut feature as a director at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. Actors behind the camera are something of a trend in Cannes this year, with Twilight star Kristen Stewart and British actor Harris Dickinson both unveiling their first ...
Marie-Christine Tayah 20/05 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Raphaël Quenard Cannes Cannes Film Festival France Culture Art
Raphaël Quenard wears many hats: actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and soon, singer. He broke through in 2023 with standout performances in Chien de la casse by Jean-Baptiste Durand and Yannick by Quentin Dupieux. His work in both earned him César nominations in 2024, and he took home the award for Most Promising Actor for Chien de la ...