Director Emily Atef’s Cannes Un Certain Regard drama More Than Ever is a careful, fastidious, Tradition of Quality film about impending death that's easy to admire but won't exactly pack 'em in. Vicky Krieps impresses yet again, here playing a woman in her early 30s suffering from a likely fatal condition who travels…

The challenges of street casting are explored in The Worst Ones (Les Pires), an Un Certain Regard drama about a film within a film. Directed by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, it sees a film crew hit a working class French town, with thought-provoking and sometimes darkly funny results.  
 Flemish director Gabriel…

A married man falls for a trans woman in Joyland, the first Pakistani feature to play in Cannes. Saim Sadiq's atmospheric Un Certain Regard drama also explores a whole family, presenting a picture of a clan torn between modernity and tradition in contemporary Lahore. Haider (Ali Junejo) has a seemingly happy arranged…

The producers of Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Silent Twins were on hand this weekend at the festival to talk about the benefits of shooting the project in Poland. Speaking at the American Pavillion in Cannes at a panel hosted by the Polish Film Institute and Deadline, producers Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowskaw, Ewa…

Jean Dujardin and Cédric Jimenez, the star and director of French Paris terror attack film Novembre, have said they did not want to portray the police who caught the attackers as “heroes” but were aiming for an uber-realistic representation of a “deeply secret” department. Speaking at a Cannes press conference the day…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has greenlit formats on auctions and dogs in the search for its next Gogglebox-style international smash via the £30M (£37M) two-year Global Format Fund, which has kicked off its third funding round. Responsibility for the fund has passed from Head of Factual Entertainment Alf Lawrie to Senior…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video India bosses Aparna Purohit and Gaurav Gandhi have outlined their strategy for super-serving the country's diverse audiences, and revealed a plan to push into true crime and investigative doc series. In their first interview since unveiling a 40-strong slate of original films and TV shows…

EXCLUSIVE: Film Mode Entertainment has picked up international rights for All My Friends Are Dead, the latest horror from Saw 3D and Saw VI director Kevin Greutert. The deal was unveiled at Cannes and will see Film Mode distribute outside North America. Cinedigm holds North American rights and invested in All My Friend…

“We didn’t do the movie to highlight women’s conditions in Iran, we didn’t do the movie to do activist work,” exclaimed Swedish-Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi about his latest in competition Cannes Film Festival title, Holy Spider at the pic’s press conference this morning. Ironic, given that at last night’s world…

Paramount’s Channel 5 To Revive BBC Cult Hit ‘Challenge Anneka’ After 30 Years Paramount-owned Channel 5 is reviving BBC format Challenge Anneka after almost 30 years. Led by presenter Anneka Rice, the show involves Rice being dropped at secret locations to meet individuals at the heart of a challenge, which she…

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winning Uprising producer Rogan Productions and Electric Shadow Company are forging Original Sin, a documentary miniseries exploring calculated South African murderer Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren and his trial. After violently murdering his girlfriend Andrea Venter, when she was 25, in front of witnesses…

Understandably, the terrorist attacks in Paris on the night of November 13, 2015 have been treated with great sensitivity by the French film industry, and the only other film in the Cannes Film Festival's lineup this year to touch on those events — Alice Winocour's Paris Revoir — is a lightly fictionalized drama set…