Cinema of France

Sister Nathalie Becquart, who is from France, will have voting rights in the body

The Greek Film Archive has teamed up with Swiss Films to present a panorama of new Swiss cinema consisting of three documentaries and seven fictions features. They include films by Ursula Meier, Lionel Baier, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Frédéric Mermoud and Alain Tanner, starring Isabelle Huppert, Bruno Ganz, Nathalie Baye, Emmanuelle Devos and other great European actors.

The French Institute and the Greek Film Archive have joined forces to pay tribute to Danish-French avant-garde actress, writer, filmmaker and singer Anna Karina, who died last December at the age of 79.

The French Institute's Cine Club series returned with a new cycle titled "War(s) and Identity(ies)," which includes Thursday's screening of "Voir du Pays" (2016) by French sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin.

Berlin Golden Bear winner "Synonymes" by Nadav Lapid, and Cannes Camera d'Or awardee "Nuestras Madres" (Our Mothers) by Cesar Diaz will run in Bucharest on Saturday as part of the Les Films de Cannes a Bucharest events, according to the festival organisers.

Legendary French actor Alain Delon is recovering in a Swiss clinic after suffering a stroke and "slight" brain haemorrhage several weeks ago, his eldest son Anthony Delon said on Thursday, quoted by Swissinfo.ch.

In mid-June, Alain Delon's entourage said the actor had been admitted to the American Hospital in Neuilly "for dizziness and minor headaches".

Oscar winner and one of France's most recognized actresses, Juliette Binoche, will head the jury of next year's Berlin film festival, organizers said Dec. 11.

Police are searching for an unspecified number of suspects who stole athletic shoes and other items from a store in downtown Athens after smashing a hole in the side wall of a neighbouring shop.

The heist took place early Thursday morning.

This file photo shows Gerard Depardieu in Moscow on November 25,2012.PhotoXpress/ZUMAPRESS.com/Alamy

The Athens Open-Air Film Festival continues on Friday, July 6, with the 1965 French mystery "The Sleeping Car Murders" (Compartiment tueurs), directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sebastien Japrisot, starring Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand and Jean-Louis Trintignant. This year's festival program includes 18 classic films, many of which are famous literary adaptations.