French
- As the 79th Cannes Film Festival opens on the Croisette, politics is competing with glamour for attention. Hundreds of figures from the French film industry have signed an open letter warning about what they describe as the growing influence of the far right within French cinema and media. At the centre of the controversy is […]
- The Cannes Film Festival is getting underway. Actors, directors and producers from around the world are heading to the French Riviera for the world's biggest film festival. Every year, Cannes welcomes between 35,000 and 40,000 festivalgoers and they all need a place to stay. On Entre Nous, we speak to Charles Richez, the general manager of […]
- International film stars, directors and fans have begun descending on the French Riviera for Cannes. The 79th edition of the world's most famous film festival begins on May 12 and will run for the next two weeks, with a constant parade of red carpets, premieres and the best of cinema. The lineup is indie and […]
- The red carpet has been rolled out at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in the south of France, with twelve days of nonstop world premieres before culminating with the Palme d'Or on May 23. But unlike other years, Hollywood is largely absent this year, which 'is highly unusual', as FRANCE 24's Emma Jones explains straight […]
- 🎞️ Did you know that the world’s most famous film festival was born from a political dispute with Fascist Italy? 🎥 Created in response to censorship and propaganda, #Cannes became a symbol of artistic freedom on the French Riviera. 👀France 24’s Stella Elgersma takes a closer look.
- The 2026 Cannes Film Festival opens Tuesday with 22 films vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or. The off-screen discourse this year is dominated by a dispute over AI, with festival director Thierry Frémaux and thousands of French actors and filmmakers warning about its effects on the industry. Despite the absence of Hollywood studio giants such as […]
India
- The Survey of India was established in 1767 – just a decade after the Battle of Plassey (1757), which reshaped political power in the subcontinent. In other words, mapping came on the heels of conquest, as British authorities sought to document and manage the land they now ruled. What began as military and administrative necessity soon became one […]
- The original promise of social media platforms was not only reach, but connection. For cultural institutions, they offered a way to speak in a more relatable voice, connect with audiences and invite participation (beyond the limits of geography). Until around 2022, this felt genuinely transformative. At a time when many institutional websites were clunky and newsletters […]
- In Kerala’s colonial photography archives, people gaze back at us – some named, categorized, but many left entirely unrecorded. These photographs from British-era Kerala capture moments of stillness: people working, posing, witnessing. But behind each frame lies a pressing question that colonial visual records often fail to answer: who were these people? Hands crossed; gaze […]
- Have archival photographs ever looked back at you? Dragged you into its frames? Made you pause not just to see, but to feel, to guess, to remember, or to imagine? There is a strange alchemy when one is looking at colonial photographs. A photograph can certainly freeze time. It can, however, also disrupt time. It […]
- In 1877, when Queen Victoria (r. 1837–1901) assumed the title of Kaisar-i-Hind, British officials sought to monumentalize her as a figure of peace and imperial stability. In India, however, her image emerged as a divine sovereign across sections of society. Her likeness appeared as traditional handmade dolls, in temple reliefs and reports from the late […]
- For most residents of Mumbai, the word ‘bandstand’ evokes the popular image of Bandra’s seaside promenade, fondly referred to as just the ‘bandstand’ in the neighbourhood. But for an older generation, it also recalls the city’s once-ubiquitous spaces for live music – structures that stood in gardens, maidans, and neighbourhood parks. As Mumbai grows into […]
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- Keli Holiday, one half of electronic duo Peking Duk, was detained at the US-Canada border on Friday.
- The pop star's legal team alleges a photograph of her face was used on Samsung television boxes without permission.
- Nobody's Girl, published last year, detailed Giuffre's encounters with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- The idea was inspired by bandmate Ian Brown's tribute at the bassist's funeral in January.