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For the second year in a row, the Vyriy music and visual arts festival brought together several thousand people in Kyiv on August 8 and 9, despite relentless Russian drone attacks. Soldiers on leave and families joined partygoers to dance and celebrate Ukrainian folklore inside this rare bubble of peace.
The series inspired by 'Green Lantern,' one of the oldest superhero comics, revisits the theme of humanity’s protectors as imperfect beings.
MPs will debate a bill in September to establish an 'agency for cinema and audiovisual media' amid budget austerity. However, the plan would still leave significant powers in the hands of political authorities.
A key figure in French cinema, Nicolas Altmayer co-founded Mandarin & Compagnie with his brother, Eric. The production company backed 'Brice de Nice,' 'OSS 117,' and 10 films by François Ozon. He died on August 17 at age 61.
A deeply religious Romanian evangelical family, newly settled in a small Norwegian town, clashes with the country's liberal principles and ultimately the courts when the couple is suspected of child abuse.
The musician, whose beats carried hits like 'La Grange' and 'Sharp Dressed Man,' had stepped back from touring last year after suffering from unspecified health issues.
Mathilde Favier was Dior's head of public relations. Nicolas Altmeyer, her partner, was known for producing the French films 'OSS 117,' 'Alpha,' and 'Monsieur Aznavour.'
An exhibition brings to life the writer's passion for architecture and its place in his work through letters, documents, prints and paintings.
The Jeu de Paume is showcasing 300 prints from the 7,000 collected by the British singer and his husband, David Furnish.
Hayden Panettiere, star of several popular television series including 'Heroes' and 'Nashville,' and later an award-winning country music singer, was announced dead by her father, in a statement to ABC News on Sunday.
The thieves removed all five panels of the 'San Gregorio Polyptych' from their frame, but abandoned two behind a wall while fleeing. An art expert estimated the stolen works at €70 million to €80 million.
Blending prehistoric science fiction with a satire of American suburbia, David Robert Mitchell playfully subverts the conventions of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster, delivering a B-movie that is both wild and cleverly twisted.
In the early 1960s, in Haifa, Israel, the young Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish fell in love with Tamar Ben Ami, a Jewish Israeli dancer. Their romance was intense but brief. From this forbidden love, the writer composed a poignant poem, 'Rita and the Rifle,' which is still sung throughout the Arab world.
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint-Etienne is dedicating its summer exhibitions to bold visual artists who shook up the art world after World War II.
Watching a film that celebrates courage, justice and loyalty sparks an immediate but fleeting surge of generosity. Why not extend that moment through social and political engagement in support of these values, suggests Pierre-Henri Najar, consultant and comic book fan, in this op-ed for Le Monde.
The paintings had been stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation, and were worth more than €10 million combined.
The works were found at a home in the town of Sao Bernardo do Campo, near Sao Paulo, and the man who had them was arrested, police said.
The filmmaker drew inspiration from correspondence between a nursing home director and a theater director facing terminal cancer. True to his discreet nature, Hamaguchi refuses to have his cinema reflect his personal convictions.
The Sufi spiritual leader El Hadj Omar Tall, who counted hundreds of thousands of followers, was a 19th-century scholar and anti-colonialist fighter. France's adoption of a law on the restitution of stolen cultural property could allow his descendants to recover his manuscripts, jewelry, and valuable possessions.
The organizers of the song contest did not mention any country by name, but Israel came close to winning the competition in both 2025 and 2026, ultimately finishing second on each occasion. The organizers also announced an increase in the minimum age of competitors.
Led by the two actresses, who shared the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's new film, opening in theaters Wednesday, transforms the budding friendship between two women into a meditation on mortality and the desire to do good.
'Growing up in hostile environments' (1/7). Photographer Louisa Ben traveled to the port city of Buenaventura, Colombia, long plagued by armed group violence. She opens the doors to the stilt houses of the so-called 'peace zone,' a neighborhood protected by police and soldiers but whose fragile safety has been shaken since the recent election of a far-right president backed by Donald Trump.
Actress Shu Qi makes her directorial debut with a sensitive and melancholic film inspired by her own childhood, focusing on the female experience.
Awarded the prestigious literary prize in 1977 for his novel John l'Enfer, Decoin, whose father was one of the great postwar film directors, regarded the prize as a second birth.
The UK's main competition and consumer protection regulator found that the takeover would not weaken competition in film distribution, children's TV and streaming services.
The retrospective dedicated to the American artist features around 150 works made from 1983 to the present day, encompassing a range of formats and materials, including drawings, photographs, bronzes, prints and tapestries.
At age 89, the artist is exhibiting 70 drawings and watercolors at the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris.