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9759 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 12/09/2025.

No sure-fire winners

In Cannes, an air of uncertainty surrounds the speculations of this year’s winners, after a competition that failed to produce one or two definite favourites. However, the last days of the...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | Predictions

A frenzied Transylvania

"Give us a blade of straw to set fire to the world". Back at Cannes two years after winning Best Director award with Exils, French director Tony Gatlif closed the 2006 Official Selection today...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Closing | France

Black and white magic in Pan’s Labyrinth

The last film screened in official competition at Cannes 2006, the Spanish/Mexican title Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro, was well received this morning in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, taking...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | Spain

Along the Ridge wins Prix Art et Essai

The debut feature by Italy’s Kim Rossi Stuart, Along the Ridge, was today awarded the Prix Art et Essai by the CICAE (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai) in the Directors’...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight

Grand Prix for Les amitiés maléfiques

Europe made a clean sweep at this year’s 45th International Critics’ Week awards ceremony yesterday evening. The Grand Prix was awarded to French director Emmanuel Bourdieu for her second feature,...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | Awards

Very good business for Films Distribution

With the 2006 market considered a good one in terms of overall sales, French company Films Distribution has once again done very well. The surprise in its line-up was The Page Turner (La Tourneuse...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Market | France

In the chaos of The House is Burning

German title The House is Burning, the feature debut by Holger Ernst, was screened out of competition this afternoon. Shot in English and set in the US, the film opens with the words of a teenager...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Out of competition | Germany

Interview: Gérard Depardieu • Actor

"Living feeling"

Gérard Depardieu • “Living feeling”  

26/05/2006

The Singer: "Music is my life"

There was a warm welcome from the international press this morning for The Singer, the third feature by French director Xavier Giannoli, and especially for the film’s leading actor, Gérard...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | France

La Californie: Cannes in off-season

The Un Certain Regard section of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival closed yesterday with the screening of La Californie, the debut feature by experienced screenwriter Jacques Fieschi, who has worked...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Un Certain Regard | France

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