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10955 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 26/08/2025.

Surprise win for Omar Sy at Lumière Awards

While Best Film of the Year was awarded on Friday evening at the 17th Lumière Awards (awarded, rather like the Golden Globes, to the best artists of French and Francophone cinema by foreign...  

16/01/2012 | Awards | France

The Artist crowned Best Comedy, Jean Dujardin Best Actor

There was a historic triple win for a French film yesterday evening at the 69th Golden Globes awarded by the foreign press working in Hollywood. The most accoladed movie of the evening, Michel...  

16/01/2012 | Golden Globes 2012 | France

The Artist crowned Best Film by American critics

Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist won the tile of Best Film at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, the awards conferred yearly by American and Canadian film critics. The French black and white silent...  

13/01/2012 | Awards | France

Europe and the US, lands of welcome for French cinema

Accounting for 87.4% of foreign admissions for French films in 2011, Europe and North America remain the most important continents for French production according to estimated figures revealed by...  

13/01/2012 | Exports | France

French films garner 65.7m admissions and €405m in takings abroad in 2011

There were mixed results for audience figures for French films in foreign theatres in 2011 according to estimated figures revealed by UniFrance (news). Admissions were up by 10% compared to 2010...  

13/01/2012 | Exports | France

Arte France Cinéma backs Breillat’s Abus de Faiblesse, starring Isabelle Huppert

Four projects were selected on January 10 by Arte France Cinéma, which will support them through co-production and pre-acquisitions. Standing out among them is Abus de Faiblesse (“Abuse of...  

12/01/2012 | Funding | France

Bernadette Lafont becomes a drug dealer in Jérôme Enrico’s Paulette

This week, shooting started in the Paris area on Jérôme Enrico’s second feature: Paulette. After Oedipus in 2001, the son of film director Robert Enrico is this time embarking on a social comedy...  

12/01/2012 | Production | France

Caine and Poésy star in Nettelbeck’s Mr. Morgan’s Last Love

The forthcoming feature by Hamburg-born director Sandra Nettelbeck, Mr. Morgan’s Last Love, is in post-production, and once again it is a wide-ranging project – her previous films, Mostly Martha,...  

11/01/2012 | Production | Germany/Belgium/France/USA

Viard shines in On Air

After notching up roles in François Ozon’s Potiche, Dany Boon’s Nothing To Declare, Cédric Klapisch’s My Piece of the Pie and Maïwenn’s Poliss, Karin Viard returns to screens today with a shining...  

11/01/2012 | Releases | France

Jacquot, Gomis, Meier and Mendoza set sights on Berlin Golden Bear

Three majority productions, a 50/50 co-production with Switzerland and two minority co-productions: with six of the 14 films selected so far in competition at the 62nd Berlinale (February 9-19,...  

10/01/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | France

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