An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, The Missing Picture, which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot’s dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the “Un Certain Regard” prize at the Cannes

Roman Polanski said the birth control pill has had a “masculinising” effect on women and that the levelling of the sexes is “idiotic” The director made the comments on Saturday at the Cannes Film Fest

Love, the wrenching tale of an elderly Parisian caring for his dying wife, scooped top prize in Cannes on Sunday, handing a second Palme d’Or in three years to Austria’s Michael Hane-ke.

The Cannes film festival has scrapped the screening of the film The Anti-Semite, by controversial French comic Dieudonne, an official said on Thursday.

Brad Pitt on Tuesday scotched rumours that his wedding to the other half of Hollywood’s hottest couple, Angelina Jolie, would take place in August.

Roman Polanski on Monday delivered as promised his latest film at Cannes but it turned out to be an ad for the Italian luxury design house Prada.

A Romanian nunnery tale, a killer whale of a drama and a wrenching story of love and death jostled for Cannes glory on Monday as the world’s top cinema showcase hit the half-way mark.

The Hunt, a taut psychological thriller starring Danish heart-throb Mads Mikkelsen as a man falsely accused of molesting a child, emerged on Sunday as a hot contender at Cannes.

Actor and activist Sean Penn urged a glamorous party of Cannes actresses and glitterati to go on a sex strike unless their men stumped up at a charity auction held for Haiti on Friday night.

The rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks is to get the film treatment, reports said from Cannes on Saturday, just days after the former Rupert Murdoch aide was charged in Britain's phone-hacking scandal.