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Cannes film festival is known for its standing ovations, but does a long or short applause measure the success of a film at the box office?

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In today's Cannes Film Festival round-up, actors and real people re-enact the past to understand why two young sisters left Tunisia and their family to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria. "Four Daughters" comes from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, who is one of the seven female directors…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has effectively knocked out the country’s film industry, resulting in a starkly diminished presence at the Cannes Film Festival this year – though the war is still very much part of the Cannes conversation. Maciek Hamela’s documentary “In the Rearview”, about the evacuation of Ukrainian refugees,…

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley stunned as she attended the Women in Motion Awards at the Cannes Film Festival alongside her actor husband Jason Statham

CANNES, France — Like more than a few Martin Scorsese epics, the searing, sprawling "Killers of the Flower Moon" recounts a horrific campaign of violence from the inside. Adapted from David Grann's 2017 nonfiction book, the movie revisits an oil-rich, increasingly blood-soaked stretch of 1920s Oklahoma — a land whose…

The Cannes Film Festival dress code allegedly requires women to wear high heels on the red carpet

The stylish new ‘It’ couple have caused quite the internet stir in Cannes. But what’s all the fuss behind the French music video director she’s newly dating? Maddy Mussen investigates

Every year, the festival generates two kinds of headlines: one of premieres and prizes, another involving the spectre of misogyny. Will glamour always matter more than progress at Cannes, asks Sophie Heawood