Cannes

A film by Greek students from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is Greece's first entry into the La Cinef competition at Cannes in 23 years. The movie "The Chaos She Left Behind" was selected by a distinguished panel among 2,263...

Greek filmmaker Vasilis Kekatos won on Saturday at the 72nd Cannes Festival the Palme d’Or with the short film “The Distance Between Heaven and Us.” He is the first Greek director to ever win a Palme d’Or in this category. The...

A millionaire Greek club owner and a Portuguese reality TV star got engaged earlier this week in Cannes, after the 63-year-old man proposed on the red carpet. Milos Kant dropped to one knee in front of banks of photographers and...

The Greek progressive rock and metal artist Oh. (Olivia Hadjiioannou) was honored earlier this week by a prestigious international jury in Cannes for her music video “Red Lion” from the album, “Metallia.” The two-day festival held at the time of...

Yorgos Lanthimos' film "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" will be premiering at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as part of the festival's main competition. Starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, the film focuses on a successful surgeon and his...

Ted Sarandos has made a public statement to address the controversy that Netflix caused at the Cannes Film Festival this year, reminding viewers that "the culture is changing". Two Netflix titles will play at the festival this year among the main...

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos will participate in the competitive section of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, according to the official programme announced on Thursday. Lanthimos will compete for the Palme d' Or with his film "The killing of a sacred...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Lobster”, a dark comedy set in a dystopian future, has just won the Jury Award (Prix du Jury) at the Cannes Film Festival. “The Lobster” markes Lanthimos’ first English-language film, and stars well-known actors like Colin Farrell,...

"Instead of Plato and Socrates, we read about Greece's economic disaster," said top American director Woody Allen while in Cannes to promote his new film "Irrational Man." "It is horrible. Every day I open the paper and read about Greece's disaster....

The film festival in Cannes organized the screening of Costas Gavras' classic film “Z” on Monday, in a restored version in honor of the award-winning Greek-French film director and producer. Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Frémaux praised Gavras' work for its ability to cross...