From Marrakech to Mumbai: a whirlwind weekend in film

Andrea Riseborough, Carey Mulligan and Rosamund Pike line up for the Moet British Independent Film awards in London on Sunday night. Mulligan went on to scoop the best actress award for her turn in the acclaimed Never Let Me Go Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage

The invite requested the guests to "dress to party" and Jonathan Ross, Jane Goldman and Terry Gilliam duly took that to heart. Even if Gilliam's outfit suggests that his will be a private party, possibly in an alleyway, with a few tins of premium lager
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And who wouldn't want to attend the party thrown by Lesley Manville and Mike Leigh. star and director of Another Year? It's glittery, but it's cosy too Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Elsewhere, Helena Bonham Carter and mother Elena lay on their own, more small-scale soiree. Close friends and family only Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP

Colin Firth metaphorically pops the champagne corks and dances the conga with wife Livia Giuggioli. He later picked up the best actor prize for his role in The King's Speech Photograph: David Jensen/EMPICS Entertainment

Over in snowbound Tallinn, Juliette Binoche helped present the statues at the 23rd European film awards. The big winner was dissident director Roman Polanski, who cropped up via Skype from his Paris home Photograph: RAIGO PAJULA/AFP/Getty Images

He's waving at you. It's European film academy president Wim Wenders with his wife Donata. Wenders took to the stage at this year's EFAs to present a lifetime achievement award to his good friend and collaborator .... Photograph: RAIGO PAJULA/AFP/Getty Images

... Christina Aguilera. Whoops, sorry, wrong picture. This one's from the Burlesque press conference in Tokyo, miles away from Tallinn. Instead, Wenders gave the lifetime achievement award to ... Photograph: Jun Sato/WireImage

The Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who worked with Wenders on Wings of Desire and memorably played Hitler in Downfall. He also, Wenders recalled, once got into a full-on, stand-up fight with Dennis Hopper on the set of The American Friend Photograph: VALDA KALNINA/EPA

To Marrakech, now, for a film festival in the company of Martin Scorsese, Costa-Gavras and Catherine Deneuve. Costa-Gavras, it transpires, has just been named a "golden star" Photograph: Dominique Charriau/WireImage

The centrepiece of this year's festival was a tribute to French cinema, which drew an unlikely double act in Of Gods and Men star Lambert Wilson and director Agnes Varda. Varda is the one on the right Photograph: ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/Getty Images

And what Marrakech film festival would be complete without the famed "Dior party" attended by the famed John Malkovich. The great actor, incidentally, can currently be seen playing a gurning horse trainer in the Disney film Secretariat Photograph: Dominique Charriau/Getty Images

And so to Mumbai where Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif promote their new film Tees Maar Khan by performing a giddy, exuberant dance. This, coincidentally, is how Mike Leigh promotes all his films too Photograph: STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images

And onward, ever onward to Sydney Harbour, where Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway are whipping up business for their latest film Love and Other Drugs. Later they will skinny-dip Photograph: TRACEY NEARMY/EPA

Javier Bardem and Alejandro González Iñárritu have a new picture out too. It is called Biutiful and they are so excited about it they have decided to screen it to the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. Sean Penn, presumably, is here for the free wine and canapes Photograph: Jesse Grant/WireImage

Is there anyone who didn't have a new film to promote this weekend. Not Jeff Bridges. He was in London to blow the trumpet for Tron Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage

Just time, finally, to dip back in to the Marrakech film festival. The "tribute to French film" has run its course and the "Dior party" is dead and buried and it is now time for the "tribute to James Caan", attended by Francis Ford Coppola and his wife Eleanor Photograph: Abdeljalil Bounhar/AP

James Caan, of course, has starred in The Godfather, Dogville and Misery. He has also starred in Bolero, For the Boys and 1941. At the tribute, Francis Ford Coppola decides to accentuate the positive Photograph: ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/Getty Images