The smooth re-election Wednesday of Nabih Berri as Parliament speaker for a sixth consecutive four-year term unchallenged has set the stage for quick binding...
Labaki wins Jury Prize at Cannes
A tumultuous Cannes Film Festival concluded Saturday with the Palme d’Or awarded to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Shoplifters,” a tender portrait of...
Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum“ wins Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival
Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s “Capharnaum” won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival Saturday.
In a year dominated by the #MeToo movement, the Cannes film festival is feeling the heat to address glaring gender imbalances in the competition for its top...
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, the shock winner Sunday of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, loves nothing better than sending up vanity and pretention.
Two Chinese filmmakers won the top awards at the Marrakesh film festival this weekend, with Zang Qiwu's "The Donor" on the controversial issue of organ...
Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Sunday evening with his moving drama “I, Daniel Blake” about the shame of poverty in austerity-hit Europe.
“Tramontane,” the feature film debut of Vatche Boulghourjian, tells the story of a young musician named Rabih.
U.S. actor Bill Murray said as he received a lifetime achievement award at the 15th Marrakesh Film Festival that he had a “heavy heart” because of the deadly...
If a single person resides in this town long enough – and finds himself in occasional conversation with some of its fearlessly inquisitive taxi drivers – he...
An Icelandic movie about two sheepfarming brothers who have not spoken in 40 years but are brought together by an outbreak of a disease that threatens their...
The Palme d’Or is the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious award. This year, 19 films are vying for the trophy. Eleven are from Europe, more than half of...
Filmstars Jake Gyllenhaal, Sienna Miller and Sophie Marceau, as well as cult director Guillermo del Toro are among the members of this year's Cannes film...
Film "Corrections Class", dealing with a group of disabled teenagers in a Russian high school, has scooped the top prize at the Marrakech Film Festival in...
Andrea Arnold of Britain, director of "Red Road" and "Wuthering Heights", will head this year's Critics' Week jury at the Cannes Film Festival, organisers said.
Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum” has been nominated for the 2019 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
Ahead of the 91st Academy Awards Sunday night in Los Angeles, politicians wished luck to Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, the first female Arab filmmaker to...