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Designer biopic leads the pack with 10 nominations; Kristen Stewart, Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche in the running for actress awards.Scroll down for full list of nominees

Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent and Olivier Assays’ Sils Maria are the hot favourites in France’s 40th annual Cesar awards.

France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences unveiled the nominations for this year’s César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.

Biopic Saint Laurent - exploring fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent’s life from 1967 to 1976 - led the pack with 10 nominations including best film, best director for Bonello, best actor for Gaspard Ulliel and best supporting actor for Louis Garrel.

Jalil Lespert’s rival biopic, Yves Saint Laurent, secured seven nominations. While it missed out in the best film and director categories, it scored nods with Pierre Niney for best actor, Charlotte Le Bon for best...

The nominations for France's Lumière Awards were announced this morning, and leading the way was the film's Oscar foreign film entry "Saint Laurent" (which sadly didn't make it past the initial culling with the Academy). The film picked up four nominations and will compete for best film with Cannes hit "Girlhood," "La Famille Bélier," "Pas son genre," fellow Oscar foreign hopeful "Timbuktu" and "Three Hearts." Check out the full list of nominees below. Winners will be announced on Feb. 3. And oh yeah: The Circuit. Best Film "Girlhood" "La Famille Bélier" "Pas son genre" "Saint Laurent" "Timbuktu" "Three Hearts" Best Director Lucas Belvaux, "Pas son genre" Bertrand Bonello, "Saint Laurent" Benoît Jacquot, "Three Hearts" Cédric Kahn, "Wild Life" Céline Sciamma,"Girlhood" Abderrahmane Sissako, "Timbuktu" Best Actor Guillaume Canet, "La prochaine fois je viserai le cœur," "In The Name of My Daughter" Romain Duris, "The New Girlfriend" Mathieu Kassovitz, "Wild Life" Pierre Niney,...

Two Days, One Night, Mommy and Fevers nominated in French-language foreign film category.Scroll down for full list of nominations

The Lumière Awards, France’s version of the Golden Globes, has announced the nominations for its 20th anniversary edition. There is no clear front-runner this year.

Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent biopic Saint Laurent, Benoît Jacquot’s 3 Hearts, starring Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroianni as sisters who unwittingly fall for the same man, and Eric Lartigau’s Christmas hit La Famille Bélier, about an aspiring singer growing up in deaf family, lead the field with four nominations each including best film.

Céline Sciamma’s gritty urban drama Girlhood (Bande de Fille) and Lucas Belvaux’s chalk-and-cheese romance Not My Type(Pas Mon Genre) and, which were also nominated in the best film category, followed behind with three nominations.

Franco-Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako Timbuktu about the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on a rural community in Mali, is the sixth...

The five European Discovery nominees include celebrated Cannes Film Festival premieres and acclaimed debuts from the international festival circuit. Winners will be announced at the European Film Awards ceremony on December 13 in Riga. The five films are: UK director Yann Demange's highly touted Berlin premiere "'71" turns on an infamous 1971 slaying in Belfast, Ireland with rising star Jack O'Connell ("Starred Up" and Angelina Jolie's upcoming "Unbroken") as a British soldier. The title of Carlos Marques-Marcet's Spanish romantic drama "10,000 Km" refers to the distance between two lovers in Los Angeles and Barcelona; the film swept up praise at SXSW, Seattle and BAMcinemaFest, among others, throughout 2014. Marie Amachoukeli's Cannes Un Certain Regard opener "Party Girl," though divisive at that festival in May, is among the five Discovery nominees. This French feature centers on a nightclub hostess in her winter years who...

Yann Demange’s thriller among five debut films nominated for European Discovery 2014.

The European Film Academy has revealed the nominees for the European Discovery 2014 - Prix Fipresci, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.

This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of Efa Board Members Ilann Girard (France) and Dagmar Jacobsen (Germany), Efa Members Paul Negoescu (Romania) and José Luis Cienfuegos (Spain), as well as Krzysztof Kwiatkowski (Poland), Marco Spagnoli (Italy) and Neil Young (UK) as representatives of Fipresci, the International Federation of Film Critics.

The nominated films are are:

10,000 Km

Spain

Directed By: Carlos Marques-Marcet

Written By: Carlos Marques-Marcet & Clara Roquet

Produced By: Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno, Jana Díaz Juhl, Danielle Schleif & Pau Brunet

‘71

UK

Directed By: Yann Demange

Written By: Gregory Burke

Produced By: Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch

Party Girl

France

Written & Directed By: Marie Amachoukeli, [link...

Two Spanish, one British, one French and a Ukrainian film have made the shortlist for the 2014 European Discovery award, the European Film Academy's best first feature prize. This year's nominees include Yann Demange's Belfast political drama 71, Party Girl from French writer/director collective Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, and Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's The Tribe, a look at a tough gang of Ukrainian teens made up entirely of deaf mutes. Read more Efa Board Expresses Concern Over Jailed Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov Spanish filmmakers lead the way this year with two nominees: Carlos Marques-Marcet’s debut feature 10,000

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Acclaimed French actor Catherine Deneuve, known for her iconic roles in films such as Repulsion (1965), Belle de Jour (1967) and Tristana (1970), and more recently in Dancer in the Dark (2000) and 8 Women (2002), will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement award at the 16th Mumbai Film Festival. The festival will screen a selection of her movies as a tribute.

Side bar events of the festival include master classes by internationally acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle, of Paranoid Park, Lady in the water, Psycho, In the Mood for love and Chunking Express; and noted director and writer Mahamat Saleh Haroun known for his films, Girgis, Bye Bye Africa, A Screaming Man.

Chaitanya Tamhane’s Venice “Lion of the future” winner Court is the only Indian film in international competition. The India Gold competition will showcase films like Avinash Arun’s Killa, Bikas Mishra’s Chauranga, Venu’s Munnariyippu, Dr. Biju’s Names Unknown and Vivek Wagh’s Siddhant.

The 16th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival announced its line-up in a press conference today.

Here is the complete list of films which will be screened at the festival:-

International Competition

Difret

Dir.: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (Ethiopia / 2014 / Col / 99)

History of Fear (Historia del miedo)

Dir.: Benjamin Naishtat (Argentina-France-Germany-Qatar-Uruguay / 2014 / Col / 79)

With Others (Ba Digaran)

Dir.: Nasser Zamiri (Iran / 2014 / Col / 85)

The Tree (Drevo)

Dir.: Sonja Prosenc (Slovenia / 2014 / Col / 90)

Next to Her (At li layla)

Dir.: Asaf Korman (Israel / 2014 / Col / 90)

Schimbare

Dir.: Alex Sampayo (Spain / 2014 / Col / 87)

Fever

Dir.: Raphaël Neal (France / 2014 / Col / 81)

Court

Dir.: Chaitanya Tamhane (India (Marathi-Gujarati-English-Hindi) / 2014 / Col / 116)

Macondo

Dir.: Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria / 2014 / Col / 98)

India Gold Competition 2014

The Fort (Killa)

Dir.: Avinash Arun (India (Marathi) / 2014 / Col / 107)

Unto the Dusk

Dir.: Sajin Baabu (India (Malayalam) / 2014 / Col / 118)

Names Unknown (Perariyathavar)

Dir.: Dr. Biju (India (Malayalam) / 2014 / Col / 110)

Buddha In a Traffic Jam

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Susanne Bier to head international competition jury at Zurich Film Festival, which also includes Us actor Val Kilmer, Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanic and more.Scroll down for full jury line-ups

Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier is to preside over the international feature film jury at the 10th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 5).

The Danish filmmaker, who won her Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar for In A Better World in 2011, is currently on the festival circuit with A Second Chance and Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper drama Serena.

She will oversee a jury that includes Us actor Val Kilmer, best known for roles in Heat, Batman Forever and Top Gun, and Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić, who won the Berlin Golden Bear in 2006 with Grbavica.

Also on the jury is Marie Masmonteil, the French producer of Party Girl, which picked up prizes at Cannes in May, and Jerusalem Film Festival winner Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, currently playing...

Touring festival to show Cannes titles and spotlight Resnais, Truffaut and Tati.

The touring French Film Festival UK (Nov 5 – Dec 4) will host Cannes titles including Mathieu Amalric’s The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue), Jean-Luc Godard’s 3D trip Goodbye to Language (Adieu Au Langage), and Camera d’Or winner Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli.

The festival, which travels to cities between Inverness and London, will open with Belgian director Lucas Belvaux’s Not My Type (Pas mon genre), the cultural and social divide romantic comedy with Emilie Dequenne and Loïc Corbery.

There will be tributes to the late Alain Resnais, with screenings of a restored copy of his first feature Hiroshima Mon Amour and the director’s last film Life of Riley, as well as films from François Truffaut and Jacques Tati.

The festival’s First World War focus revolves around a screening of the 1931 classic Wooden Crosses (Les Croix de Bois) by Raymond Bernard.

Cannes...

Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation won the Grand Prix at this year’s Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), overshadowed in its final days by the shooting down of a Malaysian Airways plane.

Lavie’s debut feature, handled internationally by The Match Factory, was voted by the festival-goers to receive the Golden Duke statuette and the $12,000 cash prize.

Director Lavie and actress Shani Klein were accompanied on stage by the Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory to accept the Grand Prix from the hands of the Oiff president Viktoriya Tigipko.

News of the Malaysian Airways plane tragedy broke early on Thursday evening during a reception in honour of Turkish films showing at the festival.

A minute’s silence was held in memory of the crash victims ahead of Gogol Wives’ documentary Pussy vs Putin that evening.

On Friday, another minute of silence was held at the beginning of the awards ceremony in memory of the aeroplane’s passengers as well...

Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation won the Grand Prix at this year’s Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), overshadowed in its final days by the shooting down of a Malaysian Airways plane.

Lavie’s debut feature, handled internationally by The Match Factory, was voted by the festival-goers to receive the Golden Duke statuette and the $12,000 cash prize.

Director Lavie and actress Shani Klein were accompanied on stage by the Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory to accept the Grand Prix from the hands of the Oiff president Viktoriya Tigipko.

News of the Malaysian Airways plane tragedy broke early on Thursday evening during a reception in honour of Turkish films showing at the festival.

A minute’s silence was held in memory of the crash victims ahead of Gogol Wives’ documentary Pussy vs Putin that evening.

On Friday, another minute of silence was held at the beginning of the awards ceremony in memory of the aeroplane’s passengers as well...

Every Friday, Indiewire's Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in the indie world who deserve your attention. Today we talk to the three directors behind "Party Girl," which just last week won the Camera d'Or award (best first feature) at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. "Party Girl," which opened the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and soon after won the Camera d'Or award at the event for Best First Feature, marks the feature directorial debut of Samuel Theis, Marie Amachoukeli and Claire Burger, three best friends who've known each other for 15 years. Theis' mother, ex-cabaret performer Angelique Litzenburger, plays the heroine of the title, a semi-fictionalized version of her middle-aged self. Litzenburger's own children (Theis included) play her kids. The film recounts a recent period in Litzenburger's own life where she gave up her career in the nightclub industry in eastern France to settle down with a man she barely knew (played by.

Winter Sleep won the Palme d’Or

The Jury of this 67th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Jane Campion, awarded the Palme d’Or to Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

The Best Director Award went to Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher.

The Camera d’Or went to Party Girl directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis presented in the Un Certain Regard Selection.

Full list of awards: (including Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight)

Feature Films

Palme d’Or

Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Grand Prix

Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) by Alice Rohrwacher

Best Director Award

Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher

Jury Prize ex-aequo

Mommy by Xavier Dolan

Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye to language) by Jean-Luc Godard

Best Screenplay Award

Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for Leviathan

Best Actress Award

Julianne Moore in Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg

Best Actor Award

Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner...

We'll be updating this post as this year's award winners at the 67th Cannes Film Festival are announced.

In Competition

Palme d'Or – Winter Sleep, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Grand Prix – The Wonders, directed by Alice Rohrwacher

Jury Prize – Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan & Goodbye to Language, directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Best Director – Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher

Best Screenplay – Oleg Negin & Andrei Zvyagintsev, Leviathan

Best Actress – Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars

Best Actor – Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner

Check out our Notebook coverage of Goodbye to Language, Maps to the Stars, & Mr. Turner.

Un Certain Regard

Prix Un Certain Regard — White God, directed by Kornél Mundruczó

Jury Prize — Force Majeure, directed by Ruben Östlund

Special Prize — Salt of the Earth, directed by Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Ensemble Prize — Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis

Best Actor — David Gulpilil, Charlie's Country

Check out our Notebook coverage of Force Majeure.

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 196-minute epic Winter Sleep won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival.

The saga of a former actor who runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife, with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his recently-divorced sister, it was described by some critics as a challenge for audiences with a minimal narrative driven by political and intellectual debates.

The director dedicated the award to the . young people of Turkey and to those who lost their lives during the year..

David Gulpilil took the best actor prize for Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country in the Un Certain Regard section.

Italian-German director Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders, the tender story of a young woman struggling against her alienating environment, won the grand jury prize.

Bennett Miller was named best director for Foxcatcher, which stars Channing Tatum...

The top award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival has gone to Winter Sleep, an epic-length family drama directed by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

A jury including Gael Garcia Bernal, Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, and Nicolas Winding Refn selected the winners from the 18 films in competition. Prizes were handed out during Saturday night’s closing ceremony.

Ceylan dedicated the award to “the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives in the last year,” referring to a coal mine accident that killed 301 workers.

Italian director Alice Rohrwacher took home the runner-up Grand Prix prize for the coming of age story The Wonders.

The Palme d’Or of the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival went to Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic and yet personally intimate story of a wealty self-absorbed Anatolian hotelier and landowner and his uneasy relationships with those around him. Ceylan’s first Palme d’Or, he has received the Grand Prix twice already. Once for 2002′s Distant and again for 2011′s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. He also won for best director in 2008 for Three Monkeys.

Winter Sleep is the second film by a Turkish director to win the Palme, after Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren’s The Way in1982. When Ceylan received the award, he noted that 2014 was the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. This is a great surprise for me, Ceylan said, I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives over the past year.

Winter Sleep is being sold internationally by Memento who will also release it in France. Ama acquired Greek rights before Cannes.

The Grand Prix was awarded to Alice Rohrwacher’s semi-autobiographical drama The Wonders ( Le meraviglie), one of the true wild-card selections in the Competition. Rohrwacher’s only other film was Corpo Celeste. Isa: The Match Factory and distributed in its home country, Italy, by Bim.

Best Director Award went to Bennett Miller (Moneyball, Capote) for Foxcatcher, about the complex relationship of Olympic wrestlers Mark and Davd Schultz and the Pennsylvania millionaire John du Pont. It is being sold internationally by Kimberly Fox’s new production and sales company Panorama who had pre-sold rights before Cannes for U.S. to Sony Pictures Classics, Canada to Métropole Films Distribution and Mongrel Media Inc., France to Mars Films, Germany to Koch Media Gmbh, Japan to Longride Inc., Switzerland to Ascot Elite Entertainment Group, Taiwan to Long Shong International, U.K. to Entertainment One UK.

The Actress Prize went to Julianne Moore for her role in David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars , a Hollywood saga where in order to succeed you must be incestuous or schizophrenic. Written by Bruce Wagner it is being sold internationally by Entertainment One, it had pre-sold before Cannes to Benelux to Cdc United Network and Cineart , Colombia to Babilla Cine, France to Canal + and Le Pacte, Germany to Mfa Film Distribution and Rtc Media, Greece to Hollywood Entertainment S.A., Italy to Adler Entertainment Srl, So. Korea to Doki Entertainment, Mexico to Cine Video Y Tv, Norway to Star Media Entertainment, Romania to Independenta Film, Switzerland to Pathe Films Ag, Turkey to Calinos Films, Ukraine to Top Film Distribution (Ukraine), U.K. to Entertainment One Films International.

The Actor Award went to Timothy Spall for his role as the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner whose use of light and color made him a pioneering and controversial figures of his day. Mr. Turner was directed by seven-time Academy Award® nominated and multiple BAFTA winning writer/director Mike Leigh (Another Year, Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies). The legendary British actor Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, Secrets & Lies) also includes frequent Leigh collaborators, including Academy Award® nominated cinematographer Dick Pope (Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies, The Illusionist) and Academy Award®-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Another Year, Anna Karenina, Atonement). Leigh works in close collaboration with his actors, using his unique methods of improvisation to bring Turner and his 19th century world to life. Mike Leigh said: Turner as a character is compelling. I want to explore the man, his working life, his relationships and how he lived. But what fascinates me most is the drama that lies in the tension between this driven eccentric and the epic, timeless world he evoked in his masterpieces.

I’ve spent a lot of time being a bridesmaid. This is the first time I’ve ever been a bride, so I’m quite pleased about that, Spall said in a long, moving acceptance speech. This is as much an accolade for Mr. Leigh as it is for me. Spall recalled that when Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, in which he also starred, won the Palme d’Or, he was undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. I thank God that I’m still here and alive.

The film was already pre-sold before Cannes by Isa Pyramide to U.S. to Sony Pictures Classics, Canada to Mongrel Media Inc., France to Canal + and Diaphana Distribution, Germany to Prokino Filmverleih Gmbh, Switzerland to Pathe Films Ag.

The Jury Prize went to two films from the Competition’s youngest and oldest directors: Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language. Dolan thanked the Jury President Jane Campion and cited her Palme d’Or-winning The Piano as one of the first and most influential films he watched as a teenager. Godard did not attend the festival. Mommy is being sold internationally by both Seville and Entertainment One and was pre-sold before Cannes to Benelux to ABC - Cinemien, France to Diaphana Distribution, Japan toDongyu Club and Pictures Dept. Co. Ltd.

Camera d'Or went to Party Girl, Un Certain Regard Opening Night Film, the debut feature of three directors including two women, Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. It had won the ensemble acting prize the night before at the Certain Regard Awards ceremony. It is being sold internationally by Pyramide. The Caméra d'Or ( Golden Camera ) is the award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or International Critics' Week). The prize was created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob and is awarded by an independent jury which this year was headed by Nicole Garcia.

Screenplay Award went to Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, Leviathan which was highly praised. Its Isa Pyramide presold the film to Australia to Palace Films, Benelux to Lumière, Brazil to Imovision, Greece to Seven Films, Spain to Golem Distribución, Taiwan toPomi International, U.K. to Artificial Eye,Curzon Cinemas and Curzon Film World

Other prizes:

Short Films Palme d’Or: Leidi (Simon Mesa Soto), a U.K. – Colombia coproduction.

Short Films Special Mention: Aissa (Clement Trehin-Lalanne) from France

Ecumenical Jury Prize: Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania-France) being sold internationally by Le Pacte who is also distributing it in France with TV5Monde.

Un Certain Regard Prizes

Un Certain Regard Prize: White God (Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary-Germany-Sweden). Isa: The Match Factory

Jury prize: Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, Sweden-France-Denmark-Norway) Isa: The Coproduction Office, sold to Benelux to Lumiere and to Norway’s Arthaus.

Special Prize: The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, France-Italy). Isa: Le Pacte who is distributing it in France and has licensed it to

Italy to Officine Ubu and to Romania to Independenta Film.

Ensemble: Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis, France) Isa: Pyramide

Actor: David Gulpilil, Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer, Australia)

Directors’ Fortnight Prizes

Art Cinema Award: Les Combattants (Thomas Cailley, France) Isa: Bac Films presold to Haut et Court for France.

Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Les Combattants

Europa Cinemas Label: Les Combattants

Critics’ Week Prizes

Grand Prize: The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine) Isa: AlphaViolet (also French distributor)

Visionary Prize: The Tribe

Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Hope (Boris Lojkine, France) Isa: Pyramide. France TV5Monde.

Fipresci Prizes

Competition: Winter Sleep

Un Certain Regard: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, Denmark-u.S.-Argentina)

Directors’ Fortnight: Les Combattants...

We might have changed the notion and definition of what the La Nouvelle Vague at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Youth are picking up the torch and reinvigorating future cinema — a sentiment that was expressed by jury members Jane Campion and Nicolas Winding Refn, and the more experienced folk are doing just the same. Godard broke the traditional narrative while Xavier Dolan and Alice Rohrwacher have made cinema feel fresh again and they were awarded for it. And the best news, the one master filmmaker who was due finally picked up a prize that had seemed to favor the Dardennes (who went o for 6 in their eligible categories with Julianne Moore finally getting some due (0 for 4 at the Oscars) for her deliriously fun bit in Maps to the Stars) won the Palme for Winter Sleep. Admittedly, the jury were afraid of the three plus hour film when they first viewed the scorecard,...

The Jury of this 67th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Jane Campion, revealed the names of the prize winners this evening during the Awards Ceremony. Lambert Wilson hosted Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to the best of the 18 films in Competition. Sergio Leone’s Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars) presented by Quentin Tarantino, was screened at the end of the ceremony. An the winners are: Feature Films Palme d’or Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan Grand Prix Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) by Alice Rohrwacher Best Director Award Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher Jury Prize ex-aequo Mommy by Xavier Dolan Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye to language) by Jean-Luc Godard Best Screenplay Award Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for Leviathan Best Actress Award Julianne Moore in Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep has won the coveted Palme d’Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, where Timothy Spall and Julianne Moore picked up Best Actor and Best Actress.

Led by Jane Campion, the jury comprised Jia Zhangke, Willem Dafoe, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn and Sofia Coppola.

Cannes 2014: News, reviews, interviewsClick here for Screen’s analysis of the winnersPalme d’or

Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Grand Prix

The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher

Best Director

Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher

Jury Prize

Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard

Mommy, Xavier Dolan

Best Screenplay

Leviathan, Andrei Zviagyntsev & Oleg Negin

Best Actor

Timothy Spall, Mr Turner

Best Actress

Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars

Camera d’Or

Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis

Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)

Leidi by Simón Mesa Soto

Short Film Special Distinctions

Aissa by Clément Trehin-Lalanne

Yes We Love (Ja vi...

The winners are now being announced at the 67th Cannes Film Festival. Find out the latest ahead of the winner of the coveted Palme d’Or.

After nearly two weeks of screenings, the 67th Cannes Film Festival comes to a close today and the winners are set to be revealed.

Led by Jane Campion, the jury comrpises Jia Zhangke, Willem Dafoe, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn and Sofia Coppola.

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Jury Prize

Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard

Mommy, Xavier Dolan

Best Screenplay

Leviathan, Andrei Zviagyntsev & Oleg Negin

Best Actor

Timothy Spall, Mr Turner

Best Actress

Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars

Camera d’Or

Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis

Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)

Leidi by Simón Mesa Soto

Short Film Special Distinctions

Aissa by Clément Trehin-Lalanne

Yes We Love (Ja vi elsker) by Hallvar Witzo

Profiles of the 18 Cannes...

Cannes — Sometimes, the pre-festival buzz has it right. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 196-minute conversational epic "Winter Sleep" entered the 2014 Cannes Film Festival as the sight-unseen frontrunner for the Palme d'Or, thanks to its heftiness of form and the Turkish auteur's perceived overdue status — any director with two Grand Prix wins and a Best Director prize behind him is bound to win the Palme at some point. The wave of strong critical reactions to "Winter Sleep," after it screened in the festival's opened days, suggested that this could be the year — though the late-breaking chatter about Andrei Zvyagintsev's muscular satirical tragedy "Leviathan" in the last two days had many Cannes attendees (this one included) thinking the Russian film could pull it off. It wasn't to be: Jane Campion's jury went with Ceylan for the top prize, rewarding Zvyagintsev's film — newly picked up by Sony Pictures Classics — with the comparatively minor Best Screenplay award instead.

The canine revolution in White God The Un Certain Regard jury has just given its top prize to Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s White God, a cautionary tale that features a gang of stray dogs who seize an opportunity to escape from a pound and revolt against mankind.

The Jury Prize went to Swedish film Turist, from director Ruben Oestlund, with a Special Prize reserved for Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado’s documentary The Salt Of The Earth.

Party Girl, the French debut feature that opened the section, was awarded the Ensemble Prize. It hails from writer/directors Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis.

David Gulpilil was named Best Actor for his role in Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country.

The film also won the Palm Dog, full story....

With its expansive program and sheer volume of premieres, the Cannes Film Festival can be a tricky one to follow sometimes. Between the competition, Directors Fortnight and Critics Week, the new offerings can be both exciting and daunting. So to help look back on the two weeks that were, here is the complete collection of feature films that played as part of the French festivities (in all its many venues), organized by premiere date with bonus links to our film pages and their corresponding Criticwire grade averages.  (It's not brunch on the Riviera, but it's close.) The Films Of The 2014 Cannes Film Festival Wednesday, May 14th (Opening Night) "Grace of Monaco," directed by Olivier Dahan Criticwire Grade Average: C- Thursday, May 15th "Mr. Turner," directed by Mike Leigh Criticwire Grade Average: A- "Party Girl," directed by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis Criticwire Grade Average: B- "Timbuktu," directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Criticwire Grade.

Ahead of Saturday’s Competition ceremony, the Cannes Film Festival sidebars Un Certain Regard and Critics Week have announced their prizewinners. Critics are often want to beat the drum for various Ucr selections, decrying their supposed relegation from the main slate, and this year was no different. Hotly tipped titles such as Lisandro Alsono’s Jauja and Jessica Hausner’s Amour Fou nonetheless went home empty-handed, as Kornél Mundruzcó’s more divisive White God scooped up the Prix d’Un Certain Regard. Also the source of critical contention was the opening night selection Party Girl, whose writing-directing trio comprised of Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis received an ensemble prize. Over in the Critics […]...

Ahead of Saturday’s Competition ceremony, the Cannes Film Festival sidebars Un Certain Regard and Critics Week have announced their prizewinners. Critics are often want to beat the drum for various Ucr selections, decrying their supposed relegation from the main slate, and this year was no different. Hotly tipped titles such as Lisandro Alsono’s Jauja and Jessica Hausner’s Amour Fou nonetheless went home empty-handed, as Kornél Mundruzcó’s more divisive White God scooped up the Prix d’Un Certain Regard. Also the source of critical contention was the opening night selection Party Girl, whose writing-directing trio comprised of Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis received an ensemble prize. Over in...

Kornél Mundruczó’s White God has won the top prize in Un Certain Regard at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.

Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczo has won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his film White God (Feher Isten).

The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production centres on a 12-year-old girl who runs away from home to search for her dog. Sales are handled by The Match Factory.

It marks a triumphant return to Cannes for Mundruczo, who was previously in Competition in 2008 with Delta, which won the Fipresci prize, and in 2010 with Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project. His feature Johanna played in Un Certain Regard in 2005.

It has been a good week for Body, the dog who played Hagen in White God, who became the first canine to be invited on stage with Thierry Fremaux at the film’s Un Certain Regard screening and earlier today won the coveted Palm Dog.

The Jury Prize...

The winners of the Un Certain Regard segment of the Cannes Film Festival have been announced. The top prize went to "Fehér Isten," Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó's tale of a young girl in search of her missing dog, who is off leading a stray animal uprising. The complete list of prizes awarded in the segment are listed below: Read More: Cannes: Winners Announced in the 17th Cinéfondation Selection of Student FilmsPrize of Un Certain Regard "Fehér Isten" ("White God") by Kornél MundruczóJury Prize "Tourist" by by Ruben Östlund Un Certain Regard Special Prize "The Salt of the Earth" by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro SalgadoEnsemble Prize "Party Girl" by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis Prize of the Best Actor David Gulpill in "Charlie's Country" by Rolf de HeerUn Certain Regard 2014 presented in competition 20 films hailing from 23 different countries, with seven of the works being first films. Jury president Pablo.

Hungarian director Kornel Mondruczo's film centering on an uprising of dogs, "White God," has nabbed the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section. Meanwhile, the Jury Prize went to Ruben Ostlund's "Turist," on the fallout (no pun intended) felt by one family after an avalanche; and the Jury's Special Prize to Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's co-directed documentary "Salt of the Earth," a portrait of photographer Sebastiao Selgado (father of Ribeiro Salgado).  Acting awards were handed out to Aboriginal thespian David Gulpilil (who began his career as the young walkabout of the title in Nicolas Roeg's 1971 classic) for Rolf de Heer's "Charlie's Country," which functions as a semi-autobiographical drama about its star; while the ensemble award went to the sidebar's opener, "Party Girl," by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, following an aging woman's switch from club life to married life. Director Pablo Trapero...

Un Certain Regard titles revolves around 60-year-old nightclub hostess who decides to get married and settle down.

Fact and fiction hybrid feature Party Girl, which opened Cannes Un Certain Regard, has gone down well with buyers at the Marché.

Paris-based Pyramide Films International has sold the film to Italy (Bim), Benelux (A-Film), Spain (Karma Films), Switzerland (First Hand Films), Greece (Rosebud), Israel (Orlando), Canada (Axia Films) and Taiwan (Swallow Wings). Deals are also pending in Mexico and Denmark.

Pyramide Films Distribution will release the film in France on September 3.

Party Girl is the debut feature of Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, who met at France’s prestigious Fémis film school.

It is loosely inspired by the life of Theis’s mother, Angelique, and builds on Burger’s 2008 short Forbach, following the actor as he returns to his home city of Lorraine.

This time, the action centres on his mother’s decision to quit her job...

It's common that a filmmaker will bring their mother to the world premiere of their film. What's not often the case: That the filmmaker's mother is the star of the show. "Party Girl," which opened the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, marks the feature directorial debut of Samuel Theis, Marie Amachoukeli and Claire Burger. Theis' mother, ex-cabaret performer Angelique Litzenburger, plays the heroine of the title, a semi-fictionalized version of her middle-aged self. Litzenburger's own children (Theis included) play her kids in the film. The film recounts a recent period in Litzenburger's own life where she gave up her career in the nightclub industry in eastern France to settle down with a man she barely knew (played by fellow newcomer Joseph Bour, who the directors found at a bar three days before the shoot), and plan their wedding. Eric Kohn in his review for Indiewire said...

Party Girl, showing in the Un Certain Regard section, is unusual for a number of reasons, primarily because it’s a three-hander. Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis are the triumvirate behind this tale of Angelique (Angélique Litzenburger), the pension-age party girl of the title, who has shaken her booty in just about every club in town and is now a hostess.

The film is set in a German border town. At one point a man hails a cab, saying “To France!” and there is something of a frontier town feel to the place. There seem to be fewer rules, for one thing: people smoke in bars and restaurants, seat-belts are optional and the rules of the road don’t seem to apply here. Yet rather than any western, the film shares more with Sweet Charity: when we enter the cabaret club for the first time it is reminiscent of the “Hey,...

★★★☆☆Cannes' Un Certain Regard strand opened this year with Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis' Party Girl (2014), a well-made if unambitious social drama which asks whether an aging, leopard skin-clad nightclub hostess can really change her spots. Sixty-year-old Angélique (played by Sonia Theis-Litzemburger) is an old-fashioned good-time girl: a hostess who loves to drink, party and entertain the menfolk in the latest of the numerous cabarets where she has earned a good living. Her faded glamour - panda eyes peering out of her face with a mixture of befuddlement and desperation - and generally exhausted demeanour all suggest a woman on the edge of decline.

(Cannes – May 15th) The press were treated to their first 8:30 a.m. Grand Lumiere screening and were taken back to the late seventeen hundredths London (among other places) in Mike Leigh’s historical biopic on a painterly individual. At the press conference, Timothy Spall who had been pitched the project several years ago and picked up the brush for a good two year period alongside a professional, found that one of the dwellings in his own personal family history (dating not that long ago) matched one of Turner’s actual known addresses – a rather remarkable coincidence in my books. One journo also asked Mike Leigh how the Secrets & Lies stamp came about (check out the news piece).

The festival’s sidebar (Un Certain Regard) and parallel sections Directors’ Fortnight and Critics Week got off to a rowdy start. Ucr opener Party Girl (by directing team comprised of Marie Amachoukeli,...

"Party Girl" sports a trio of directing credits, for French newcomers Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, suggesting a combined effort with scale to match. But that perception belies a resolutely small production exclusively based around the appeal of its real life lead. Amateur actress Angélique Litzenburger stars as a fictionalized version of herself, playing a 60-year-old bar hostess and cabaret performer stuck in the same cycle of recklessness that has weighed down on her for the duration of her life. Though never entirely the sum of its parts, "Party Girl" delivers a gentle, somber portrait of the aging process that's consistently believable precisely because not much happens. "I was a superstar," Angélique says to her co-workers at the bar, but throughout the movie that may as well serve as her mantra. The grimy venue where she spends her working hours, a dimly lit enclave equipped with a stripper pole and blaring music,...

The third of a trio of films with 'Girl’ in the title that played Cannes today (the terrific “Girlhood” and the execrable “That Lovely Girl” being the other two), “Party Girl,” written and directed by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis firmly occupies the middle slot in terms of quality. It’s a heartfelt and undoubtedly well-meaning film, attempting a character study of a woman of an age and lifestyle that makes her an unusual and therefore unusually worthy subject. But Angelique’s overriding characteristic is that she is incapable of fundamental change which makes her at best a frustrating protagonist for this drama, which essentially describes a complete circle and eventually leaves her exactly back where we found her, only having hurt a few more people along the way. Perhaps this would not be quite such an issue if the tone of the film were not so firmly established from the outset,...

Cannes -- Life is opportunity. More than ever before, I believe that. I have to believe that. In just over a week, I turn 44, and I stand at the edge of some major upheavals in my life. It has taken me a longer time to reach this point than I would have liked, but I eventually realized that inertia is no way to live. I would rather confront the pain and the disappointment of sifting through the ashes of a marriage burnt to the ground than continue to simply drift along hoping for some miraculous change for the better. There is nothing more terrifying to me than change, and I feel like that's true for most of us. We accept the way things are and consign dreams of change to being just that… dreams. The courage it takes to affect real change is not something we come by easily, and...

The twenty films taking part in Un Certain Regard section will be screened in the Debussy Theatre from Thursday 15 to Friday May 23, 2014. The opening film will be Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Théis, a first movie also competing for the Caméra d'or. The Indian Film Titli directed by debutant Kanu Behl and produced by Yash Raj Films will also compete for Un Certain Regard as well as Camera d’or awards. Read More...

The number of women directors who make it into the Cannes lineup is a source of yearly contention. And it makes sense. Over the past ten years, there's been virtually no consistent improvement in terms of women auteurs landing in the hallowed competition program. Un Certain Regard has gradually improved -- slightly. Indiewire's Women and Hollywood blog has created a handy if depressing chart, cleverly titled "No Cannes Do," to show the exact stats. Check it out, below. It should be noted that the numbers include women who directed and co-directed. This year, Alice Rohrwacher ("La Meraviglie") and Naomi Kawese ("Still the Water") are in competition, while Jessica Hausner ("Amour fou"), Asia Argento ("Incompresa"), Marie Amachoukeli and Claire Beuger (along with Samuel Theis for "Party Girl") and Keren Yadaya ("Harcheck mi headro") are in Un Certain Regard. (Full lineup here.) Meanwhile, this year's jury president Jane Campion (who recently revealed...

Argentine director Pablo Trapero to preside over Un Certain Regard; actress-director Nicole Garcia to head Camera d’Or jury.

Just days before the launch of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), two more juries have been revealed.

As previously announced, Argentine director Pablo Trapero will preside over the five-member jury, which will also include:

Peter Becker, President of The Criterion Collection (Us)

Maria Bonnevie, actress (Norway / Sweden)

Géraldine Pailhas, actress (France)

Moussa Touré, director, scriptwriter, producer (Sénégal)

Bonnevie is best known for her roles in I Am Dina (2002) and The 13th Warrior (1999), and will next be seen in Susanne Bier’s En Chance Til.

Pailhas is best known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013) and The Returned (2004)

The 20 films taking part in Un Certain Regard will be screened in the Debussy Theatre from May 15-23. The opening film will be Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Théis, a debut movie...

Organizers on Sunday unveiled the jury members for the Un Certain Regard sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Camera award. As previously announced, Argentinian director-writer-producer Pablo Trapero will head up the Un Certain Regard jury. The other members of the jury are Peter Becker, president of The Criterion Collection, and Norwegian-Swedish actress Maria Bonnevie, French actress Geraldine Pailhas and Senegalese director-writer-producer Moussa Toure. Photos: See 1950s Brigitte Bardot Stun at the Cannes Film Festival The Un Certain Regard section includes 20 films, with the opening film, Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, screening on

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The Cannes Film Festival's lineup of films include the Competition titles of several legendary auteurs such as Jean-Luc Godard, David Cronenberg, The Dardenne Brothers, Atom Egoyan, Mike Leigh, and Ken Loach. In the Un Certain Regard section, the highly anticipated film by actor-turned-director Ryan Gosling. Those in the business will be happy to find Alison Thompson in her new company, Sunray Films, selling Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner. Two films out of 18 in Competition are by women, but across all sections there are 15 women directors. Further in Competition, three films are from Canada; two are from U.S. one film is from Latin America (Argentina); one is from Japan; one from Turkey; one from Russia and the rest are European.

Opening Night Film :

Grace of Monaco (Producer: Stone Angels/ U.S. The Weinstein Company) from France by Olivier Dahan

In Competition

Clouds of Sils Maria (Isa: MK2/ U.S. Distribution: IFC Films) from France/ Gremany/ Switzerland by Olivier Assayas

Saint Laurent (Isa: EuropaCorp) from France by Bertrand Bonello

Winter's Sleep aka Kis uykusu (Producer: Zeynofilm ) from Turkey by Nuri Bilge Ceylan who has a great website.

Maps to the Stars (Isa: Entertainment One) from Canada by David Cronenberg

Two Days, One Night (Isa: Wild Bunch/ U.S. Distribution: IFC Films) from Belgium and France by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Mommy (Isa: Seville International) from Canada by Xavier Dolan

The Captive (Isa: Entertainment One) from Canada by Atom Egoyan. You can watch the trailer here.

Goodbye to Language aka Adieu au Langage (Isa: Wild Bunch) from France by Jean-Luc Godard

The Search (Isa: Wild Bunch/ U.S. Distribution: Worldview Entertainment) from France by Michel Hazanavivius

The Homesman (Isa: Europacorp) from U.S. by Tommy Lee Jones

Still the Water (Isa: MK2) from Japan and France by Naomi Kawase ♀

Mr. Turner (Isa: Sunray Films/ U.S. Distribution: Sony Pictures Classics) from U.K. by Mike Leigh. Sunray Films is Alison Thompson's new company and she brought the film over from her former employer Focus Features International when they left the international sales business.

Jimmy's Hall (Isa: Wild Bunch) from Ireland and U.K. by Ken Loach

Foxcatcher (Isa: Panorama Media/ U.S. Distribution: Sony Pictures Classics) from U.S. by Bennett Miller

Le Meraviglie (Isa: The Match Factory) from Italy, Switzerland and Germany by Alice Rohrwacher ♀

Timbuktu (Isa: Le Pacte) from France by Abderrahmane Sissako

Wild Tales (Isa: Film Factory Entertainment/ U.S. Distribution: Palmera International) from Argentina by Damian Szifron

Leviathan (Isa: Pyramide International) from Russia by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Un Certain Regard

Party Girl (Isa: Pyramide International) from France by Marie Amachoukeli ♀ , Claire Burger ♀ , Samuel Theis

Jauja (Isa: Ndm) from Argentina by Lisandro Alonso

The Blue Room (Isa: Alfama Films) from France by Mathieu Amalric

Misunderstood aka Incompresa aka L'Incomprise (Production: Paradis Films) from Italy by Asia Argento ♀

Titli (Isa: Westend Films) from India by Kanu Behl

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Isa: Myriad Pictures/ U.S. Distribution: The Weinstein Company) from U.S. by Ned Benson

Bird People (Isa: Films Distribution) from France by Pascale Ferran ♀

Lost River (Isa: Sierra/Affinity) from U.S. by Ryan Gosling

Amour Fou (Isa: Coproduction Office Paris) from Austria by Jessica Hausner ♀

Charlie's Country (Isa: Visit Films) from Australia by Rolf de Heer

Snow in Paradise (Isa: The Match Factory) from U.K. by Andrew Hulme

A Girl at My Door (Isa: Cj Entertainment) from So. Korea by July Jung ♀

Xenia (Isa: Pyramide International) from Greece by Panos Koutras

Run (Isa: Bac) from France by Philippe Lacote

Turist from Sweden and Norway by Ruben Ostlund

Beautiful Youth aka Hermosa Juventud (Producer: Fresdeval Films) by Jaime Rosales

Fantasia by Wang Chao

The Salt of the Earth (Isa: Le Pacte) from Germany and Brazil by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Away From His Absence (Isa: Bizibi) from Israel by Karen Yedaya ♀

Out of Competition

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dreamworks Animation) from the U.S. by Dean Deblois

Coming Home aka Gui Lai (Isa: Wild Bunch) from China by Zhang Yimou

Special Screenings

Bridges of Sarajevo (Les Ponts de Sarajevo) from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Portugal, Germany, and France

Red Army from the U.S. and Russia by Gabe Polsky

Maidan (Isa: Atoms & Void Bv) from Belarus by Segei Loznitsa

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait from Syria by Ossama Mohammed

Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy from France by Stephanie Valloatto

Directors' Fortnight

Opening Film: Girlhood aka Bande De Files (Isa: Films Distribution) from France by Céline Sciamma

Closing Film: Pride (Isa:Pathe International) from the U.K. by Matthew Warchus

Features

Alleluia (Isa:snd- Groupe M6) from Belgium and France by Fabrice Du Welz

Catch Me Daddy (Isa: Altitude Film Sales) from the U.K. by Daniel Wolfe

Next To Her aka At Li La Yla (Isa: Films Boutique) from Israel by Asaf Korman

Cold In July (Isa: Memento Films International) from the U.S. by Jim Mickle

Fighters aka Les Combattants (ISa: Bac Films) from France by Thomas Cailley

Gett — The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem (Isa: Films Distribution) from France, Germany, Israel by Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz

The Tale of Princess Kaguya aka Kaguya-Hime No Monogatari (Isa: Wild Bunch) from Japan by Isao Takahata

Eat Your Bones aka Mange Tes Morts (Isa:Capricci Films) from France by Jean-Charles Hue

A Hard Day aka Kkeut-Kka-Ji-Kan-Da (Isa: Showbox/Mediaples, Inc.) from South Korea by Seong-Hun Kim

National Gallery (Isa: Doc & Film International) from France by Frederick Wiseman

Queen And Country (Isa: Le Pacte) from the U.K. and Ireland by John Boorman

Sheltered aka Refugiado (Isa: Backup Media Films) from Argentina, France, Poland, and Colombia by Diego Lerman

These Final Hours (Isa: Celluloid Dreams/Nightmares) from Australia by Zach Hilditch

Tu Dors Nicole (Isa: Seville International) from Canada by Stéphane Lafleur

Whiplash (Isa:Sierra /Affinity) from the U.S. by Damien Chazelle

Special Screening

P'tit Quinquin by Bruno Dumont

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by Tobe Hooper (4K restoration)

Acid Program

Brooklyn (Produced by Les Enfants de la Dalle) from France by Pascal Tessaud

The Way Out aka Cesta Ven (Produced by Cinema de Facto) from France and the Czech Republic by Petr Vaclav

Challat of Tunis aka Le Challat the Tunis (Produced by Cinetelefilms ) from Tunisia and France by Kaouther Ben Hania

The Girls and the River aka La Fille et le Fleuve (Produced by 31 Juin Films) from France by Aurélia Georges

Mercuriales (Produced by Kazak Productions) from France by Virgil Vernier

New Territories (Produced by Paraiso Production Difussion) from France by Fabianny Deschamps

Insecure aka Qui Vive (Isa: Udi- Urban Distribution International ) from France by Marianne Tardieu

The Rules of the Game aka Les Regles du Jeu (Isa: Doc & Film International) from France by Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard

Spartacus & Cassandra (Produced by Morgane Productions) from France by Ioanis Nuguet

Critics' Week

Opening Night: Faire: L'Amour (Fla) from France by Djinn Carrénard

Closing Nigh: Hippocrates aka Hippocrate (Isa: Le Pacte) from France by Thomas Lilti

Features

Darker Than Midnight aka Piu' Buio di Mezzanotte (Isa: Rai Trade) from Italy by Sebastiano Riso

Gente de Bien (Isa: Versatile) from Colombia and France by Franco Lolli

Hope (Isa: Pyramide International) from France by Boris Lojkine

It Follows (Isa: Visit Films) from the U.S. by David Robert Mitchell

Self Made aka Boreg (Isa: Westend Films) from Israel by Shira Geffen

The Tribe aka Plemya (Isa: Alpha Violet) from Ukraine by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

When Animals Dream aka Nar Dyrene Drommer (Produced by Gaumont) from Denmark by Jonas Alexander Arnby

Critics' Week: Special Screenings

Breathe aka Respire (Produced by Gaumont) from France by Mélanie Laurent

The Kindergarten Teacher aka Haganenet Teacher aka (Isa: Le Pacte) from Israel by Nadav Lapid...

Tim here. It's Christmas morning, everybody: the Cannes Film Festival announced its line-up today for this year's edition, running from May 14-25.

Opening Night

Grace of Monaco (dir. Olivier Dahan; starring Nicole Kidman)

Official Selection

Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)

Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonelo)

Winter's Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) Yes No Maybe So

Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)

Mommy (Xavier Dolan)

The Captive (Atom Egoyan)

Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Search (Michel Hazanavicius)

The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) Yes No Maybe So

Still the Water (Naomi Kawase)

Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)

Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach)

Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) We Can't Wait

Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher)

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron)

Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

Channing Tatum & Mark Ruffalo as brothers in "Foxcatcher"

Un Certain Regard

Opener - Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis)

Jauja (Lisando Alonso)

The Blue Room...

The official selections for the 67th Cannes Film Festival have been announced with a more mainstream than expected selection this year featuring quite a few films you've probably heard of.

New films are on over from such esteemed directors as David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Bennett Miller, Olivier Dahan, David Michod, Zhang Yimou, Atom Egoyan, Xavier Dolan, Ken Loach, Olivier Assayas, Rolf de Heer, Michel Hazanavicius, Mike Leigh, second-timer Tommy Lee Jones and first-timer Ryan Gosling.

Opening Film (Out of Competition):

"Grace of Monaco" – Olivier Dahan

Competition:

"The Captive" – Atom Egoyan

"Clouds of Sils Maria" – Olivier Assayas

"Two Days, One Night" – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes

"Foxcatcher" – Bennett Miller

"Goodbye to Language" – Jean-Luc Godard

"The Homesman" – Tommy Lee Jones

"Jimmy's Hall" – Ken Loach

"Leviathan" – Andrey Zvyagintsev

"Le Meraviglie" – Alice Rohrwacher

"Maps to the Stars" – David Cronenberg

"Mommy" – Xavier Dolan

"Mr. Turner" – Mike Leigh

"Saint Laurent" – Bertrand Bonello

"The Search" – Michel Hazanavicius...

Cinephiles, rejoice! The Cannes Film Festival has announced its 2014 line-up today and as usual, it’s pretty damn impressive. A lot of the movies announced were already expected to play at the prestigious fest, but there are definitely a few surprises as well.

Leading the way is Nicole Kidman’s Grace of Monaco, which will be the opener. Following that we’ll have David Cronenberg’s promising Maps to the Stars and Animal Kingdom helmer David Michod’s The Rover, two films that I absolutely cannot wait to see. Joining them will be Bennett Miller’s Oscar-hopeful Foxcatcher as well as Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria. The Artist director Michel Hazavanicius will be here too with his new film The Search, and Mike Leigh returns with Mr. Turner. But that only scratches the surface, and there’s still more to come, as next week will see the announcement of the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight line-ups.

This morning the 2014 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced and while at least one Out of Competition title is still to be announced, along with the Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight lineups, we have a look at what films make up the competition and it's largely a lot of the titles that were rumored heading into today's announcement. Among the competition titles you have Atom Egoyan's Captives, which we'll have to hope is better than Devil's Knot, Bennett Miller's highly anticipated Foxcatcher, Jean-Luc Godard's 3D feature Goodbye To Language, The Homesman from Tommy Lee Jones, Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall and David Cronengberg's Maps to the Stars. I'm jealous I won't be there to see Xavier Dolan's first time in competition with Mommy, Mike Leigh is again at Cannes with Mr. Turner and Michel Hazanavicius returns to Cannes after The Artist took the fest by storm with The Search.

The 2014 Cannes Film Festival lineup has been announced, and it has some heavy hitters. Technically, the biggest is How to Train Your Dragon 2, but Cannes has played host to DreamWorks Animation films in the past in an attempt to give the festival a wider appeal. Plus, that movie is playing out of competition. Among the indies, the one I'll be keeping an eye on is Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo. Other notable contenders include David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, David Michôd’s The Rover, Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman, Ryan Gosling's Lost River (formerly titled How to Catch a Monster), Zhang Yimou's Coming Home, and Atom Egoyan's The Captive. Hit the jump to check out the full lineup. The 2014 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 15 – 25th. Via Vulture. Opener Grace of Monaco,...

Best Director winner Mathieu Amalric moves down from the Main Comp, Ryan Gosling changes the title of his film, Ned Benson trims an hour to become a rare 2013 film added to the fest, Asia Argento adds a touch of eclectic while Pascale Ferran and Lisandro Alonso add a little auteur clout while our bets are on Ruben Ostlund to shake up the section. Thierry Frémaux’s Un Certain Regard section for ’14 has six Camera d’Or (first-time filmmakers) hopefuls including our tipped for Cannes bet in Kanu Behl’s Titli, and the female filmmaker presence (Jessica Hausner, Keren Yedaya) make up for the lack of in the Main Comp. With only 19 announced titles, expect there to be room to add at least two more items. Here are the Un Certain Regard selections:

Un Certain Regard

“Amour fou” (Jessica Hausner)

“Bird People” (Pascale Ferran)

“The Blue Room” (Mathieu Amalric)

“Charlie’s...

Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, and Steve Carell, was one of the high-profile movies that was announced this morning for competition in next month’s Cannes Film Festival. Also competing for the Palme d’Or is The Homesman from director Tommy Lee Jones, and David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, which features Robert Pattinson.

Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, How to Catch a Monster, starring Christina Hendricks and Eva Mendes, will premiere in the Un Certain Regard side category.

How to Train Your Dragons 2 will also premiere at Cannes, with an out of competition screening.