“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second,” says Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor) in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 film “Le Petit Soldat.” Capturing the world has preoccupied humans since ...

This piece is part of an ongoing Independent Lens series exploring documentary film history. Check out the previous entry, Silent Real-Life Adventure Films, and stay tuned for more installments. The ...

French animation giant Dandelooo Cinéma has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the 2D animated feature “My Life in Versailles – The Movie,” excluding France, Italy, Germany and the U.K. The ...

The ceremony was attended by a number of cultural officials, veteran documentarians, and artists, ISNA reported on Monday. Speaking at the ceremony, the secretary of the festival Mohammad ...

There have been many terrific magazines devoted to movies, but only one such magazine is both a mainspring of the history of the art form and an ongoing meme: Cahiers du Cinéma. The French monthly, ...

What is it? Like an '80s techno riff on poetic realism, Cinéma du Look located the exact midway point between Max Ophüls and Max Headroom in an often electrifying decade of French cinema. Its trinity ...

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its public-oriented Cinéma de la Plage sidebar at its 78th edition kicking off next week. The sidebar will screen a selection of films, many of ...

Famed Argentine director Daniel Burman’s new feature “Transmitzvah,” his first in nearly eight years, will receive a Cinéma de la Plage world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Burman first ...

As a kid, Marie Louise Khondji spent a lot of time on film sets with her father, renowned Iranian-French cinematographer Darius Khondji, meeting directors like Roman Polanski and, on one harrowing ...

The remarkable coming-of-age story of one of the most influential, dynamic and unexpected players in the history of ...

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The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its public-oriented Cinéma de la Plage sidebar at its 78th edition kicking off next week. The sidebar will screen a selection of films, many of ...