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Mexico's Michel Franco wins Cannes sidebar prize
May. 26, 2012 1:25 PM ET (AP)
"After Lucia" by Mexican director Michel Franco has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival's sidebar competition, Un Certain Regard.
It was chosen Saturday from a slate of 20 films by a jury...
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Feminist group protest at Cannes premiere
May. 20, 2012 3:08 PM ET (AP)
A French feminist group upset about the lack of female directors at this year's Cannes Film Festival staged a hairy protest on the red carpet Sunday.
Five women from La Barbe donned fake, different...
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Denmark's Vinterberg brings 'The Hunt' to Cannes
May. 20, 2012 10:38 AM ET (AP)
Thomas Vinterberg is aware his new movie, "The Hunt," may touch a raw nerve. Several, in fact.
The Danish director's Cannes Film Festival contender, the story of a small-town witch hunt triggered by a...
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In the shadows of art, Cannes' market flourishes
May. 20, 2012 9:45 AM ET (AP)
The movie market at Cannes is such a dramatic sideshow that this year it's getting its own film.
Director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin have been knocking up and down Cannes' Croisette boulevard...
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Cannes' female-free directors line-up criticized
May. 16, 2012 7:44 PM ET (AP)
At this year's Cannes Film Festival, there are directors in their 30s and their 80s, directors from Europe and North America, directors from Asia and the Middle East _ but no women.
Not, at least,...