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Retrospective to include films from Danis Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Mira Fornay and more.

A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).

The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.

Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).

A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.

The titles are:

Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk

Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001

A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...

★★★☆☆ Winner of the Un Certain Regard award at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, Aida Begic's Children of Sarajevo (Djeca, 2012) is a tightly-focused drama, portraying life in contemporary Bosnia from the point of view of the war orphans now reaching maturity. Marija Pikic plays Rahima, a 23-year-old woman who, after a misspent youth, has found solace and direction in Islam, practising the Hajib and wearing a headscarf.

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Montreal’s Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (10.10 – 10.21) announced their line-up today for their 41st edition and among the smorgasbord of subtitle offerings dating back to this year’s Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Venice and Tiff editions, we’re knee-deep in avant-garde world cinema from the established auteurs Assayas, Vinterberg, Ozon, Sang-Soo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Larrain, Loach, Reygadas, Ghobadi, Mungiu and Miguel Gomes. Heavy on offerings from Quebec and France, the fest also manages to offer a stellar snapshot of the up-and-comers from all corners of the globe. Among the notable titles in the (Competition category) International Selection we’ve got Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves, Ursula Meier’s Sister, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine (which received its theatrical release earlier this month) and Rodrigo Plá’s La Demora. Loaded in Cannes items, the Special Presentations is the fest’s A-list selections (see filmmakers named above) and the one pic...

14th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) announced its complete lineup today in a press conference. Mff will be held from October 18th to 25th at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Ncpa) and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues. Click here to watch trailers and highlights from the festival.

Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)

International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors

1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)

Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)

2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)

Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)

3. The Sapphires

Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)

4. The Wall (Die Wand)

Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)

5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)

Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)

6. Augustine

Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.

If you were hoping that an American entry would take home the big prize, the Palme d'Or much like last year's "The Tree of Life," hope again. The only American winner of the bunch was the Sundance darling, Benh Zeitlin's "Beast of the Southern Wild." Fox Searchlight, the studio behind the film, will now push the New Orleans delta water-adventure for upcoming awards.

Here's the complete list of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival winners:

In Competition

Palme d'Or

Amour (Love) directed by Michael Haneke

Grand Prix

Reality directed by Matteo Garrone

Award for Best Director

Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux

Award for Best Screenplay

Cristian Mungiu for DUPÃ Dealuri (Beyond The Hills)

Award for Best Actress

Cristina Flutur in DUPÃ Dealuri (Beyond The Hills) directed by Cristian MUNGIUCosmina Stratan in DUPÃ Dealuri (Beyond The Hills) directed by Cristian Mungiu

Award for Best Actor

Mads Mikkelsen in Jagten (The Hunt...

HollywoodNews.com: The official Jury of this 65th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Nanni Moretti, revealed this evening the prizes winners during the Closing Ceremony.

Bérénice Bejo hosted Audrey Tautou and Adrien Brody on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to Michael Haneke for his film Amour (Love).

Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueyroux starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier, was screened at the end of the ceremony.

Feature Films

Palme d’Or

Amour (Love) by Michael Haneke

Grand Prix

Reality by Matteo Garrone

Award for Best Director

Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux

Jury Prize

The Angels’ Share by Ken Loach

Award for Best Actor

Mads Mikkelsen in Jagten (The Hunt) by Thomas Vinterberg

Award for Best Actress

Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan in DUPÃ Dealuri (Beyond The Hills) by Cristian Mungiu

Award for Best Screenplay

Cristian Mungiu for pour DUPÃ...

Will Amour see Michael Haneke win his second Palme d'Or? Will the nuttiness of Leos Carax's Holy Motors herald the return of France's prodigal son? Or will someone we've barely heard of and paid almost no attention to sweep to victory? Join us to find out who will win the Cannes film festival's most prestigious prize, the Palme d'Or

6.23pm: Hello and welcome to the climactic moments of Cannes 2012, which will reach its crescendo in little over an hour from now, when the Palme d'Or, the Golden Palm, is bestowed by Nanni Moretti and his panel of jurors.

Rather appropriately, the skies have opened over Cannes: thunder and lightning are crashing over the Croisette and rain is pounding on the Palais. It's a suitable backdrop for the anointing of a new presiding genius, a magician of cinema. Will it be Michael Haneke, whose Amour has wowed the critics? Or might Leos Carax,...

DESPUÉS De Lucia (After Lucia) by Michel Franco won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. The Mexican film tells the story of a girl Alejandra and her dad Roberto who have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job.

The Special Jury prize went to Le Grand Soir by Benoît DELÉPINE and Gustave Kervern.

Two brothers who are complete opposites: one is a salesman in a chain store, while the other fancies himself the oldest punk-with-a-dog in Europe…But the twists of modern life will reunite them, putting them both on the street.

The film is a co-production between Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, France and Turkey.

Children Of Sarajevo by Aida Begic won a Special Jury Distinction. It follows the lives of Rahima (23) and Nedim (14), orphans of the Bosnian war.

Indian filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely screened in Un Certain Regard section.

The Nice airport is getting a bit less busy, and the cafés and hotels on the Croisette are quieter as the Cannes Film Festival wraps up today. Awards are starting to be handed out and first up are the prizes for the festival's Un Certain Regard category, which tends to feature newer, lesser-known directors and slightly edgier fare than the main competition lineup.

The jury, presided over by Tim Roth (who also starred in the Critics' Week opening film "Broken"), has given the Prize Of Un Certain Regard to Mexico's "Después de Lucía." To be honest, we heard very little about this one on the grounds of the fest, but the film directed by Michael Franco follows a father and daughter who are starting their lives over in a new town. This should give a nice boost to the film which doesn't have domestic distribution yet, but for the buyers...

It’s only fair for me to say that Despues de Lucia by Michel Franco, which I did not see, must be one extremely good film. Why? Because it beat Brandon Cronenberg revolting, well-made Antiviral and Benh Zeitlin‘s phenomenal Beasts of the Southern Wild in for the Un Certain Regard prize. Other awards from the jury headed by Tim Roth:

Special Jury Prize: Le Grand Soir by Gustave de Kervern and Benoit Delepine

Best Actress: Emile Dequenne, A perdre la raison, and Suzanne Clement for Laurence Anyways

Special Distinction of the Jury: Djeca (aka: Children of Sarajevo) by Aida Begic

Scene from Despues Lucia, Un Certain Regard winner...

In this strange, haunting film, the Bosnian war keeps bubbling up from where it has been buried

The 38-year-old Aida Begić is the Bosnian film-maker who won the Grand Prix at the Critics Week in Cannes four years ago for her debut feature, Snow. Now she is in the Un Certain Regard section with this followup film, which she has written, produced and directed. Children of Sarajevo – the original title, Djeca, means "children" – is set in the present-day city, in which the ghosts of a terrible past loom all around. The movie does not entirely tie up its narrative threads, but the strange, potent atmosphere makes up for this.

Rahima (Marija Pikic) is a Muslim woman in her twenties who works long hours in a restaurant kitchen to provide for the teenage brother Nedim (Ismir Gagula) who lives with her, but who is drifting into bad ways. They are orphans of the 90s Bosnian war,...