Scorcese and Blanchett open 71st Cannes Film Festival opening
The Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday night with the première of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's Todos Lo Saben, Everybody Knows. The director's multi-national opening film is the first of 21...
View ArticleRemembering La Belle Ouvrage of Mai 68 during Canne's Director's Fortnight
The Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, The Directors' Fortnight opens later today (Wednesday, 9th of May, 2018) in Cannes. In it's 50th anniversary year, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams looks at one the documentaries...
View ArticleSerebrennikov's The Summer celebrates Leningrad's 80s rock-music poets
Russian stage director and film maker Kirill Serebrennikov's latest film Leto premièred at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. The Summer, its international title, is one of the 21 films competing...
View ArticleUS museum pays tribute to Louise Bourgeois
A five-decade survey opened on Thursday at the private Glenstone museum in the town of Potomac, Maryland outside Washington. It explores the autobiographical creations by prolific artist Louise...
View ArticleOne listener’s beliefs
Feast your ears on listener Maria-Helena Nascimento’s “This I Believe” essay. All it takes is a little click on that “Listen” arrow above!
View ArticleFrance pitches for Eurovision win with song inspired by migrant baby rescue
France could be in with a chance in this year's Eurovision, with a song inspired by the story of a baby born to a Nigerian migrant rescued at sea.
View ArticleCannes has its #MeToo moment as 82 women walk the red carpet
The Cannes Film Festival has its #MeToo moment on Saturday night, when an all-woman group climbed the red-carpeted stairs to promote womens' rights and equality in the cinema industry worldwide.
View ArticleLekhfa: alternative music for Egypt's connected generation
Maryam Saleh, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh and Maurice Louca are established solo artists on the alternative Arabic music scene. Together as Lekhfa they draw on Egyptian shaabi, pop and psychedelia to produce an...
View ArticleParis's Seine-side booksellers call Unesco to the rescue
Some 220 bouquinistes sell second-hand and rare books along the banks of the River Seine in Paris in what has been called the largest open-air bookshop in the world. But as the internet and changing...
View ArticleSamouni Road: Gaza seen through one family's tragedy
Palestinian films and film-making are getting a boost this year at the Cannes Film Festival. The Palestinian ministry of culture, for the first time, has helped acquire one of the pavilions in the...
View ArticleBringing Middle Eastern food to the heart of Paris
Two Syrian cooks living in France offer a unique take on classic recipes from the Levant. Inspired by memories of their childhood in Aleppo and Damascus respectively, their food creations also bear a...
View ArticleSpike Lee's BlacKKKlansman brings his fight against racism to Cannes
Spike Lee’s latest film is part of his constant fight against racism. Set in the 1970s, BlacKKKlansman is based on a real life story of an African American police officer in the US who infiltrates the...
View ArticleMacron's 'tense and anguished face' doesn't work for Grevin museum
Emmanuel Macron, eyebrows arched over a slightly lunatic stare, was on track to take his place among world leaders at the Grevin wax museum in Paris -- until an early glimpse of his likeness spread...
View ArticleGarrone's Dogman shows flair for gangster movies
49 year-old director Matteo Garrone instills drops of humour and a striking character for his latest feature Dogman a kind of David and Goliathin an urban Italian Western where movie-friendly poodles...
View Article'Yiddish Glory' album breathes new life into lost Soviet Jewish WWII songs
As war raged through Europe, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars began recording stories, poems and songs by Jewish men, women and children living - and dying - in Nazi-occupied Soviet Union. Never...
View ArticleMorocco’s history of tolerance
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Egypt’s presidential poll. There’s news from Morocco, some great music, and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on...
View Article'The Man who killed Don Quixote' finally wraps 71st Cannes Festival
The eternal questions posed by Spanish writer Cervantes classic novel Don Quixote, The Ingenious Nobleman of La Mancha, are boiled down to the essential in Terry Gilliam's film The Man who Killed Don...
View Article'Shoplifters' directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu wins the 2018 Golden Palm at Cannes
Out of a very decent crop of auteur films in the 71st Cannes Film Festival, the jury chose a well-rounded work showing a picture of about a family struggling to make ends meet in Japan, Shoplifters,...
View ArticleEtenesh Wassié: the blueswoman and 'hurricaine' from Addis
Ethiopian vocalist Etenesh Wassié began her career in Addis aged just 15 singing in traditional music venues known as Azmari Bet. She's now building a successful career in Europe singing azmari songs...
View ArticleOne listener’s beliefs
Feast your ears on listener Rick Carson’s “This I Believe” essay. All it takes is a little click on that “Listen” arrow above!
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