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France's National Cinema Centre (CNC) has announced it is increasing the size of the country's Oscar selection committee to reinforce its independence. The move follows controversy over the CNC-run committee's recent choices of film to represent France in the Best International Feature Film…

French director Julia Ducournau is at the Marrakech International Film Festival this week where she will talk about her career and work to date in an In Conversation event on Tuesday. The Morocco trip comes close to a year after a momentous 2021 for the filmmaker in which she won the Cannes Palme…

UPDATE: Xavier Giannoli's Illusions Perdues (Lost Illusions) leads nominations for the 2022 César Awards, France's equivalent to the Oscar. The Venice premiere scored 15 mentions, followed by Leos Carax's Annette, which opened the Cannes Film Festival last year and has 11 nominations. They are followed by Valérie…

Mexico’s Oscar-shortlisted Prayers For the Stolen directed by Tatiana Huezo won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best International Feature Film at the Palm Springs Film Festival, which revealed its juried winners Wednesday despite being forced to cancel its 2022 edition. The festival, which had been scheduled to run January…

French film exports generated 91.4M euros ($103.6M) in 2021, a 5.5% increase on the previous year’s provisional figures, while admissions were up 8% to 14.8M. Comparatively, French films within France sold 39.2M tickets during the year. The figures were announced during the annual Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French…

It was another busy year of supporting UK indie cinema for the British Film Institute (BFI), which again handed out a series of cash awards via its audience fund as well as distribution grants for individual titles. Scroll down for the lists of top awards across key strands. The grants continue to look a little…

Despite the continuing challenges of the pandemic, it was a year of highlights from film festivals around the world. Who could forget Spike Lee’s now-infamous moment when he accidentally revealed this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner early after a translation mix-up? How about Titane director Julia Ducournau making…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today unveiled its shortlist of 15 films that will advance to the next stage of voting in the International Feature Film category at the Oscars. Notable among omissions is Julia Ducournau's Titane, the entry from France which won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or…

UPDATE: Jasmila Žbanić's Quo Vadis, Aida? was the big winner at the 34th European Film Awards tonight. The story of a woman's fight to save her family during the true events of the 1995 Bosnian War genocide in Srebrenica scooped the top European Film prize as well as European Director for Žbanić and European Actress…

After going dark for the first time in more than half a century, the return of the Cannes Film Festival proves one major point: the event is still a significant launch pad when it comes to the International Feature Film Oscars. Indeed, of the 90-plus submissions recorded so far this year, nearly a quarter made their…

Agathe Rousselle is at the center of this year's Cannes Palme d'Or-winning film Titane, in which she plays a psychopathic serial killer experiencing a bizarre pregnancy—a job one might consider best left to the experienced actor. But, surprisingly, despite more than holding her own in the part, Rousselle is brand new…

The European Film Academy has announced nominations for the 34th European Film Awards which will be handed out in Berlin on December 11. Julia Ducournau’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Titane; Florian Zeller’s 2020 drama and double Oscar winner The Father; and Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis Aida?, which was nominated for an…