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Dancers perform on the red carpet for the screening of the film The Great Gatsby as they arrive for the opening ceremony of the 66th Cannes Film Festival
16/05/2013 - Report: Cannes 2013

The South Coast of France has a reputation for sun and fun, but torrential rain swept through Cannes as the 66th Cannes Film Festival got underway.

11/05/2013 - Report: France - Culture

Everyone has super-hero or super heroine potential. Some people do take a life-time to realise it, if at all. An interactive exhibition in Paris, called Captain Future and Superpowers ...

07/05/2013 - France

French actor Alain Delon is to be honoured at the Cannes film festival later this month with a screening of Plein Soleil, René Clement's 1960 adaptation of "The Talented Mr ...

05/05/2013 - Report: Culture

Mauritian bluesman, Eric Triton, scratches the surface of the idealistically portrayed rainbow island of Mauritius. His soulful songs call for unity and often blame politicians for communal rifts.

The joy of bows - the Tokso Folk String Quartet
28/04/2013 - World music matters

Tokso Folk String Quartet - four talented musicians from Greece, Norway and France - talk about the joys of composing for each other and why the island of Crete lives and breathes folk music.

26/04/2013 - Report: France

Les Bains Douches was once a famous Paris nightclub and concert hall. At the beginning of 2013 a group of artists transformed the site into a creative space.

24/04/2013 - France - world cinema

The Cannes Festival jury panel for 2013 has just been announced, and it is wide-ranging and gender-balanced.

23/04/2013 - France - World cinema

Twenty-one films make-up the main programme for the 2013 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs or Director's Fortnight, a French international film festival which is held concurrently with the ...

23/04/2013 - Report: France

When visitors to Paris are on their way to famous museums, they pass thousands of works of graffiti and street art over walls, on buildings and inside trains.

20/04/2013 - Report: France - Marseille Forum

The documentary film Un été à Alger (A Summer in Algiers) is a look at Algiers through the lens of four young Algerian filmmakers.

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