Cinema of France

Up-and-coming Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos won the third-place Prix du Jury (jury prize) at the Cannes Film Festival for the “The Lobster”, his first English-language film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.

The top Palme d’Or award went to Jacques Audiard’s immigrant drama Dheepan in what international media described as a “shocker”.

The Cannes Film Festival unrolled its red carpet with a socially minded French drama as the glitzy festival began May 13 on a more serious note after January's terror attacks in Paris.

Thirty years after he was given the Palme D’Or, Costa Gavras returns to the Cannes Film Festival as the honorary member of the Cannes Classics family.

Edith Piaf may have passed away in 1963 but this year, the year she would have turned 100, the memory of ?the Little Sparrow? is just as strong as ever and enshrined as one of France?s most enduring icons.

The Cannes Film Festival?s organizers on April 16 unveiled the list of 17 movies to be shown next month in the Palme d?Or competition line-up. Turkish director Ziya Demirel?s film ?Sal?? (Tuesday) is set to compete in the short film category of the festival. 

The rundown is not yet complete, with a couple of movies yet to be added before the 11-day festival opens on May 13.

LOS ANGELES - Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons will act in the action film 'The Lake' produced by Luc Besson, the plot of which will be situated in Serbia

The film tells the account of a group of navy seals trying to solve a several years' long mystery of treasure that sunk in a lake in the war-afflicted Serbia, and it will be directed by Steven Quayle, Hollywood media reported

Francophone Film Festival returns to Athens and Thessaloniki for the 16th consecutive year, presenting films from Canada, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Tunisia.

Organized by the French Institute in Greece, the festival will run in Athens from March 19 to 25 before traveling to Thessaloniki from March 26 to April 1.

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan?s latest Palme d?Or-winning movie ?K?? Uykusu? (Winter Sleep) swept the board at the 47th Turkish Cinema Writers Association (S?YAD) awards, presented at Istanbul?s Cemal Re?it Rey Concert Hall on March 11.

BELGRADE - French Ambassador to Serbia Christine Moro has presented the Order of Knight of Arts and Letters to famous musician and composer Goran Bregovic.

Filmmaker Tavernier to be guest of Kustendorf festival

BELGRADE -- French film director Bertrand Tavernier will be a guest of the 8th International Film and Music Festival Kustendorf.

The event was founded by renowned Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica.