US director Jeff Nichol’s Mud has the honour of being the last film première in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Last but not necessarily least.

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is back at the Cannes Film Festival this year with a cinematic epic poem about traffic jams and capitalism in crisis, based on a 2003 book by US literary giant ...

Films from Latin America always get major billing at the Cannes Film Festival and 2012 is no exception.

US director Lee Daniel's The Paperboy premièred at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday with Nicole Kidman's lead performance stealing the show.

Brazilian director Walter Salles’ road movie of the Jack Kerouac modern classic novel On the road is in competition for the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film ...

Léos Carax makes a bold, surprising comeback feature with Holy motors, the fourth film considered a French entry in this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Another gangster film set in the US directed by film antipodean Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt was screened in competition at the Cannes Film festival on Tuesday.

French director Alain Resnais at 90 years old shows at the Cannes Film Festival he’s still very much in the game.

A freak storm ripped through the French mediterranean city of Cannes Sunday night damaging the roof of a film festival screening room and leaving soaked stars shivering on the red carpet.

Amour, or love in French, is the title of a film in the running for the Golden Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. RFI’s Rosslyn Hyams is in Cannes where she reviewed the film.

American filmmakers are fairing particularly well at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Lawless, a film by John Hillcoat, is one of five films in competition for the Golden Palm this year.

Italian director Matteo Garrone follows his recent film about the Mafia in southern Italy with a more overtly philosophical look at society in Naples.

In competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Austrian director and screenwriter Ulrich Siedl, visits a side of human nature from a rarely-revealed female perspective in Paradise: Love ...

The race for the Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm award is on. The first competitors hit the screen Thursday. De Rouille et d’Os is the work of French director Jacques Audiard.

 The Cannes Film Festival opened last night with the eagerly awaited cortege of stars climbing the red-carpeted stairs to the sound of frantic camera clicking.