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ADVERTISEMENTIran has summoned France's representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised the Cannes-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression.”French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot had praised It Was Just An Accident after it won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.The film by famed dissident Iranian

ADVERTISEMENTThe Manchester Museum has collected this year’s top honour at the European Museum of the Year Awards, which were presented on the last day of the EMYA2025 Conference in Poland at the Sybir Memorial Museum in Białystok. On a self-proclaimed mission to become the “most inclusive, imaginative, and caring, museum you’ll ever see,” the Manchester

ADVERTISEMENTMarcel Ophuls, the acclaimed French-German documentary filmmaker whose probing explorations of history and memory helped shaped the genre for decades, has died at the age of 97.His grandson, Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert, confirmed that he "died peacefully" on Saturday.Ophuls' life and career focus was shaped enormously by his own experience of war and exile. Born in Frankfurt

ADVERTISEMENTMore than 50 years after Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image of a nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a napalm attack in the South Vietnamese village of Trảng Bàng, a prestigious photography organisation has cast fresh doubt over who actually took it.World Press Photo, which awarded the image its 1973 Photo of the Year, recently

ADVERTISEMENT30 years after the original cinematic movement, a group of Danish and Swedish filmmakers have relaunched the avant garde Dogma 95, with a new manifesto that has been updated for the internet age.“In a world where film is based on algorithms and artificial visual expressions are gaining traction, it’s our mission to stand up for

ADVERTISEMENTCelebrated American actor Joe Don Baker has died at the age of 89. A cause of death has not been disclosed.  Best known for his role as the justice-seeking sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall, Joe Don Baker leaves behind him a lasting legacy of screen roles. The late actor’s obituary reads: “Joe

ADVERTISEMENTOne of the most moving moments of the Cannes Film Festival so far came when beloved French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer paid tribute to David Lynch during the opening ceremony.Lynch, who died earlier this year aged 78, and Farmer had been friends for years. Both admired each other’s work and even collaborated in 2024 when the director

What was expected of her was the same thing that was expected of Lara Stone: to take a beautiful picture. The main thing that you...