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De Adentro Pa Afuera, Camilo’s kaleidoscopic new album, caught him during a few different intersections in his life. Not only did the Colombian singer find new creativity as an artist, he had also recently become a father. And as his world tour makes its way across the U.S. this month, he’s realizing that he has his work cut out for himself.

“I’m excited to see how this family process starts growing and unfolding through all these challenges of being on tour, releasing an album, and being...

‘Champions’ was a stand-out Spanish title.

Sports comedy Champions, directed by Javier Fesser, stands out as the year’s most popular local film at the Spanish box office with $21.6m, ranking at number four overall for 2018 after Hollywood trio Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, Incredibles 2 and Avengers: Infinity War.

Champions, chosen as Spain’s foreign-language Oscar entry, is well ahead of the year’s other top local productions including The Best Summer Of My Life with $9m, and 2017 release Perfect Strangers, which has grossed $7.5m since January 5 this year.

The success of Champions — a comedy about a basketball coach who...

Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs) will head the jury for the 57th Cannes Critics’ Week (9-17 May), the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival which honours first and second films.

The director, whose Louder Than Bombs competed for the Palme d’Or in 2015, is joined on the jury by actress and director Chloë Sevigny, Bpm (Beats Per Minute) star Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Vienna Film Festival Director Eva Sangiorgi and French journalist Augustin Trapenard.

Last year the jury was headed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, with Emmanuel Gras’ doc Makala taking home the top award. The strand’s competition has previously included movies by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter), David Robert Mitchell (It Follows), Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (The Tribe), Santiago Miter (Paulina), Oliver Laxe (Mimosas), Julia Ducournau (Grave) and Rebecca Zlotowski (Beautiful Thorn).

The jury will hand out the Nespresso Grand Prize to one of the seven movies in competition, the...