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The South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles has released its programming lineup ahead of the event’s 20th anniversary.

SEEfest, running April 30-May 7, opens with the L.A. premiere of The New Year That Never Came, directed by Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Mureșanu, winner of the Fipresci Award and Best Film in the Orizzonti program at the Venice Film Festival. The tragicomedy “climaxes with the bang of a firecracker in a highly unlikely pair of hands, effectively kicking off the revolution” that ousted Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.

The cinematic event, co-presented by the non-profit Elma (European Languages and Movies in America), will showcase more than 50 films, both fiction and nonfiction, including U.S. premieres of work hailing from the culturally rich area of East and South-East Europe. In addition to welcoming an array of European talent, SEEfest will host an Industry Accelerator with panels and workshops (scroll for full...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.News No Other Land.Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by a group of masked Israeli settlers and subsequently arrested by the army, apparently under suspicion of “hurling rocks.” The following day, Yuval Abraham, who codirected No Other Land (2024) with Ballal, wrote that “after being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.” According to the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, there have been at least 43 attacks against the Palestinian residents of Susya since the beginning of the year. “This might be their revenge on us for making the movie,” says Basel Adra, who also codirected the film. “It feels like a punishment.

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actress who received the best actress trophy at Cannes for her breakout role in the Dardenne brothers’ Palme d’Or-winning drama Rosetta, has died. She was 43.

Dequenne died Sunday in a hospital outside Paris after battling adrenocortical carcinoma, a rare cancer of the adrenal gland, her family and agent announced.

Born on Aug. 29, 1981, in Belgium, Dequenne began studying drama at 12 and trained at the Music & Spoken Word Academy in Baudour before joining the La Relève Theater troupe. At 17, she was cast in Rosetta, playing a working-class teenager struggling to escape poverty. Her performance earned her the Cannes best actress prize in 1999 (shared with Séverine Caneele for Humanité), launching a career in European cinema.

She was a feature in French and Belgian films for decades, with more than 60 acting credits to her name. Highlights included Christophe Gans’ action horror thriller The Brotherhood of the Wolf; Joachim Lafosse...

Émilie Dequenne as she appeared in the title role of Rosetta, at the age of 18 Photo: UniFrance

The world of Francophone cinema is in mourning following the death of Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne at the age of 43 following diagnosis in October 2023 of a rare form of cancer.

Dequenne who was born in Beloeil, Belgium in 1981, was acclaimed at the age of only 18 for her first major role in Rosetta by the Dardenne Brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre which won her a best actress accolade at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999.

Émilie Dequenne Photo: François Berthier/UniFrance

Her career encompassed more thane than 50 films including André Techinés The Girl on the Rer, Joachim Lafosse’s psychological drama Our Children in 2012 (garnering another acting award in Cannes Un Certain Regard section), in a lighter vein for Belgian director Lucas Belvaux’s Not My Type and more recently a best supporting actress César in...

Émilie Dequenne as she appeared in the title role of Rosetta, at the age of 18 Photo: UniFrance

The world of Francophone cinema is in mourning following the death of Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne at the age of 43 following diagnosis in October 2023 of a rare form of cancer.

Dequenne who was born in Beloeil, Belgium in 1981, was acclaimed at the age of only 18 for her first major role in Rosetta by the Dardenne Brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre which won her a best actress accolade at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999.

Émilie Dequenne Photo: François Berthier/UniFrance

Her career encompassed more thane than 50 films including André Techinés The Girl on the Rer, Joachim Lafosse’s psychological drama Our Children in 2012 (garnering another acting award in Cannes Un Certain Regard section), in a lighter vein for Belgian director Lucas Belvaux’s Not My Type and more recently a best supporting actress César in...

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actor who won a Cannes Film Festival prize for her breakout role in the Dardenne Brothers’ 1999 film “Rosetta,” died on Sunday. She was 43.

Dequenne’s family confirmed to French news agency Afp (via The Guardian) on Sunday night that she died of a rare cancer in a hospital just outside Paris. She revealed in October 2023 that she had been diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma, a cancer of the adrenal glands in the kidney.

Born in Belœil, Belgium on Aug. 29, 1981, Dequenne was just 18 when she broke out in “Rosetta,” a coming-of-age story about a teenager who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother. Her performance earned her Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious best actress award, and “Rosetta” also won the Palme d’Or at the 1999 festival.

Her next role was in Christophe Gans’ commercially successful “Brotherhood of the Wolf” (2001), and she went on to star in...

Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne, known for her breakout role in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Palme d’Or winning Rosetta, has died aged 43.

Her agent announced that she had died of a rare cancer at a hospital just outside of Paris on Sunday evening.

Dequenne, who starred in more than 50 films during her long career,won the best actress prize in Cannes for Rosetta in 1999 and has been nominated for five Cesar awards, including a win in 2021 for Emmanuel Mouret’s Love Affair(s).

She balanced commercial films with more auteur fare and worked with acclaimed filmmakers including Claude Berri,...

Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne has died at the age of 43. Her family and agent confirmed her passing on Sunday at the Gustave Roussy hospital in Villejuif, just outside Paris. She had been battling adrenocortical carcinoma, a rare cancer of the adrenal gland, which she revealed in October 2023.

Dequenne first gained recognition at 17 for her role in Rosetta, a film by the Dardenne brothers. Her performance earned her the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, launching a career that spanned over two decades. The film itself won the Palme d’Or, cementing its place in cinematic history.

She continued to receive recognition for roles in The Girl on the Train (2009) and Our Children (2012). In 2021, she won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Les Choses qu’on dit, les Choses qu’on fait, directed by Emmanuel Mouret. Audiences in Belgium and France recognized her talent, with performances in Le Pacte des Loups,...

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actress best known for her award-winning role in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s “Rosetta,” died Sunday in Paris, her family announced. She was 43.

Dequenne shared she had been diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma, a rare adrenal gland cancer, in October 2023.

“Rosetta” launched the actress to international acclaim after she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for the 1999 film. She continued to rack up awards for mostly French-language movies, including 2009’s “The Girl on the Train” and 2012’s “Our Children.”

Dequenne was in attendance at Cannes in 2024 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Rosetta” and to promote her movie “Survive.” In an interview with The Action Elite, Dequenne said she didn’t know she was sick when she filmed the movie.

Dequenne also said that her own experiences as a mother drew her to the movie, a dystopian drama that centers on a family. ” can’t explain,...

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actress who first achieved fame with her 1999 Cannes d’Or-winning, big screen debut in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s drama Rosetta, has died at the age 43.

The actress, who revealed in October 2023 that she was battling a rare adrenal gland cancer, died in hospital on the outskirts of Paris on Sunday evening, her agent Danielle Gain announced to Afp.

Born on August 29, 1981, Dequenne studied at Belgium’s Music & Spoken Word Academy in Baudour from an early age, taking up drama there at the age of 12, alongside joining the La Relève Theater troupe.

She landed her first cinema role at age 17 in Rosetta. She clinched Best Actress at Cannes in 1999 for her performance as the titular teenager living in a caravan with an alcoholic mother in the film, which also won the Dardenne brothers their first Palme d’Or.

“It’s terrible, life is disgusting sometimes,...

The process of selecting and then screening movies for the Sarajevo Film Festival (Sff) is a deeply personal experience for programmer Rada Šešić.

“I will reveal to you one secret,” Šešić confides. “After I introduce the film and the maker, I stay in the cinema and listen to how the audience ‘breathes,’ how it reacts; I shudder every time someone opens the door with a bang or leaves in the middle of the film, it hurts me to see a restless, fidgeting audience.”

Šešić will be holding her breath every time for the screenings of the 21 films (including 19 in competition) in this year’s documentary section, picked from 275 submissions.

“Each screening feels like I am a student taking an exam, and I, too, not just the directors, feel that the screening in Sarajevo is a special occasion, somehow solemn,” she says. “We have many world or international premieres each year,...

Muppeteer Jim Henson’s rarities, late quilt artist Faith Ringgold’s earliest interview, and an ad for Jacuzzi rival Vibrabath saw the light of day at the 14th Orphan Film Symposium.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary earlier this week, the NYU-produced Orphans (first founded by University of South Carolina turned NYU professor Dan Streible in 1999) gathered scholars, archivists, and preservationists for a range of media obscurities: including home videos, newsreels, and medical films abandoned by their copyright holders at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI). Blame low commercial value, the deterioration of VHS/celluloid copies in the Dcp era, or the shrouding of sociopolitical messages from the masses for their loss.

This year’s theme was the broadly named “Work and Play.” According to the convening’s open call, “Work” alludes to labor, occupations, and machines. Conversely, “Play” implies joy, games, entertainment, and sex. Yet, the two realms intersect...

In his staggering 2012 film “Our Children,” Belgian writer-director Joachim Lafosse turned an unthinkable true-life tragedy — the story of a mentally ailing mother who, one hitherto ordinary afternoon, single-handedly murdered all five of her children — into deeply compassionate drama, focusing not on the lurid whats of the event, but its more intimate, less discussed whys. That approach again serves Lafosse well in “A Silence,” another solemn, upsetting domestic chamber piece that lightly fictionalizes and foregrounds the hidden, knotty familial tensions behind a headline-making scandal. In this instance, it’s one disturbing, high-profile court case that begets another, both connected by differing forms of patriarchal abuse — but Lafosse’s interests lie, as ever, less in procedural formalities than in unruly household turmoil.

Outside Belgium, audiences are less likely to be familiar with the case of serial killer Marc Dutroux, convicted in 2004 of the kidnapping, rape and murder of multiple girls — or that of Victor Hissel,...

In the films of Belgian auteur Joachim Lafosse, families tend to be torn apart from the inside, brought down by deep-seated psychological baggage (The Restless, Private Property), extremely bad behavior (Private Lessons, Keep Going) or a history of abuse (Our Children). For his latest feature, A Silence (Un silence), the writer-director has managed to pack all three factors into a single movie, focusing on a bourgeois clan that gradually unravels as past and present offenses come back to haunt them.

Like the rest of Lafosse’s work, it’s a penetrating, artfully made drama, this one starring Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Devos and newcomer Matthieu Galoux, turning in quietly riveting performances. But it also overstretches itself, with too many pivotal events coinciding at once, making the plot less credible while dissipating the emotional effect of its many revelations. After premiering in San Sebastian, the film will continue its festival run, followed by theatrical play in France,...

Les Films du Losange has unveiled the trailer for “Un Silence,” Joachim Lafosse’s thought-provoking film starring Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Devos that will world premiere in competition at San Sebastian Film Festival.

Tackling themes of abuse, the timely film revolves around Astrid (Devos), the wife of an acclaimed lawyer (Auteuil). Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their own search for justice.

One of Belgium’s leading filmmakers, Lafosse is best known internationally for 2012’s “Our Children,” a heart-wrenching drama based on a true story starring Emilie Dequenne and Tahar Rahim. “Our Children” represented Belgium in the Oscars race. “Un Silence” will mark Joachim’s follow up to “The Restless,” which competed at Cannes in 2021 and also explored imploding family dynamics.

Auteuil, who previously won Cesar and BAFTA awards, notably starred in “La belle époque” by Nicolas Bedos, and “Hidden” by Michael Haneke; while Devos,...

John C. Reilly will preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, running May 16-27.

He will be joined by French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour, German actress Paula Beer, French-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou and Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne.

“I have had so many life changing moments at the Festival de Cannes, from my miraculous first trip with Paul Thomas Anderson to celebrating my 50th birthday from the Palais stage! So to be chosen as the President of Un Certain Regard Jury is truly such an incredible honor,” said Reilly.

“Many of the films I have been lucky to appear in have been selected by the Festival over these many years and nothing feels as special as being invited to this amazing annual gathering of the very best cinema has to offer the world. I look forward to helping launch another generation of...

Exclusive: Mubi has acquired Lukas Dhont’s Cannes Competion entry Close for the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.

Starring Lea Drucker (Custody), Émilie Dequenne (Our Children), Kevin Janssens (Revenge) and newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, the film will get its world premiere on the Riviera this week.

In Close, the intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi’s mother.

The film will be released theatrically followed by an exclusive Mubi streaming release. The Match Factory is handling international sales and negotiated the deal with Mubi, its parent company.

Pic is produced by Dirk Impens and Michiel Dhont for Menuet (Be) and co-produced by Diaphana (Fr), Topkapi Films (Nl) and Versus Productions (Be).

Dhont said: “I am incredibly honored to share this film and start this collaboration with Mubi.”

Girl, Dhont’s debut feature film,...

No one utters the word “bipolar” until practically the end of Belgian director Joachim Lafosse’s “The Restless,” but you can sense that’s what the character Damien is dealing with from the opening scene, when a father-son day on the sea takes a startling turn. After steering a rented boat a certain distance offshore, the ever-impulsive Damien spontaneously dives overboard, leaving his boy, Amine (Gabriel Merz Chammah), alone at the helm. “I’m swimming back — you take the boat,” he says, leaving the boy with no other choice.

“The Restless” presents this startling rift in parental responsibility from the son’s point of view, suggesting that the episode — the kind of judgment lapse that might qualify as “fun-loving” in an American man-child comedy but feels genuinely alarming here — almost certainly has its origins in Lafosse’s own upbringing. Like that real-world Laurel and Hardy episode when Mom called the paramedics,...

Belgian director Joachim Lafosse wakes up the Cannes Film Festival competition with The Restless (Les Intranquilles), a story about a man who can’t sleep.

Damien (an excellent Damien Bonnard) is bipolar, and prone to manic episodes. During these, he goes without rest for days on end, rushing around trying to fix and do everything. He lives in a comfortable country home with his young son Amine (Gabriel Merz Chammah) and his caring wife Leïla (Leïla Bekhti), who makes furniture in a workshop on the premises. Damien has his own workshop: he is a successful painter, a job that seems to suit his temperament. But when he goes into what we learn is yet another manic episode, and refuses to take his medication, Leïla is at the end of her tether.

It’s a quietly engaging portrait of a loving couple in a conflict neither of them wants to be in.

Damien Bonnard is a bipolar painter whose life is unravelling in this earnest drama that avoids cliches and pulls no punches

This sad and painful movie takes us round and round, circling the drain of despair but never quite going down. In narrative terms it never really develops any of its characters or relationships, yet its two utterly heartfelt lead performances make this a grimly authentic spectacle.

It comes from the Belgian director and co-writer Joachim Lafosse who has form as a dramatist of poisoned marriages with After Love from 2016 and before that Our Children from 2012, which like The Restless touches on the complicated role of prescription medication in the portfolio of personal unhappiness.

After appearances at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section (for “Our Children” in 2012) and the Directors Fortnight sidebar (for “After Love” in 2016), Belgian director Joachim Lafosse has landed in Cannes’ most prestigious section, the Main Competition. In fact, he’s at the tail end of that section: His film “The Restless,” which screened for the press on Thursday, will be the last of 24 competition titles to screen for Spike Lee’s jury and the Cannes audience on Friday, the day before the festival will conclude with its awards ceremony.

That’s not the kiss of death by any means: At the last four Cannes, one of the movies that screened on the final day went on to win something from the jury, with three of them picking up acting awards.

And as is par for the course for Lafosse, his new film is an acting showcase for its leads,...

Snd, the commercial arm of French TV network M6, has acquired international sales rights to “Doubt” and “A Perfect Man,” a pair of four-part French thriller series, in the run-up to Mipcom.

“Doubt” was created by Sophie Lebarbier and Fanny Robert, the duo behind the hit French procedural series “Profiling.” Directed by Laure de Butler, “Doubt” revolves around a man who was just sentenced to 15 years in prison for a murder. The series follows one of the former jury members who starts having doubts about the man’s guilt after the verdict is given and hires a private detective.

Currently in post-production, “Doubt” stars Ophélia Kolb (“Call my agent”) and Stanley Weber (“Borgia”). It’s produced by Beaubourg Fiction, whose credits include “Profilage,” “Falco” and “Balthazar.”

“A Perfect Man,” meanwhile, follows the neighbor of a man suspected of having murdered his wife and children who is convinced of his innocence...

Tahar Rahim, the French actor currently appearing in the Berlinale opening film “The Kindness of Strangers,” is in negotiations to star in Damien Chazelle’s highly anticipated Netflix series “The Eddy,” Variety has learned.

A Paris-set musical series written by Jack Thorne (“National Treasure”), “The Eddy” will revolve around a club, its owner, the house band, and the chaotic city that surrounds them. The series is expected to start shooting on location in Paris later this year.

Chazelle, the Oscar-winning director of “La La Land” and “First Man,” will direct several episodes of the series, on top of exec-producing. Glen Ballard, the composer and producer of Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” and Michael Jackson’s “Bad,” is composing the original score for the series and will also exec-produce it, along with Alan Poul.

Some episodes will be directed Houda Benyamina, several sources say. Benyamina helmed “Divines,” which world premiered...

A chance for a mother and son to ride the high country and spend some quality time together turns into a more treacherous psychological trek in Keep Going (Continuer), the latest feature from prolific Belgian auteur Joachim Lafosse (Our Children, After Love). Returning to the themes of his previous films but setting them against the wider canvas of a modern-day western, this tense and engrossingly performed two-hander feels a bit truncated in its final act but otherwise makes for a solid addition to Lafosse’s string of anxious, edgy and sometimes deadly family affairs. After premiering in Venice it could keep ...

A chance for a mother and son to ride the high country and spend some quality time together turns into a more treacherous psychological trek in Keep Going (Continuer), the latest feature from prolific Belgian auteur Joachim Lafosse (Our Children, After Love). Returning to the themes of his previous films but setting them against the wider canvas of a modern-day western, this tense and engrossingly performed two-hander feels a bit truncated in its final act but otherwise makes for a solid addition to Lafosse’s string of anxious, edgy and sometimes deadly family affairs. After premiering in Venice it could keep ...

Can a film that holds no surprises be of value? In the case of Our Children, which masterfully plays with stylistic conventions and all-too-common instances of real-life infanticide, the answer is decidedly yes. Originally given the more direct title of À perdre la raison, the story concerns Mounir (Tahar Rahim), a young Moroccan man who isn't living up to the expectations of his surrogate father, paper-marriage brother-in-law, and mentor, Dr. André Pinget (Niels Arestrup). Instead of completing medical school, Mounir is consumed by his passion for Murielle (Émilie Dequenne). With true love on their side, they marry and have four children in rapid succession—yet, due to financial and murky emotional reasons, continue to live with Pinget. Focus g...

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Our Children is the inadequate English title for a Franco-Belgian-Luxembourg-Swiss film called À perdre la raison (loosely "Going mad"). It begins with a demented young woman Murielle (Émilie Dequenne) in a hospital bed pleading for her children to be buried in Morocco. After this sizable hint of horrendous things to come, it tells in an extended flashback the story of the lively Murielle marrying Mounir, a young, recently qualified Moroccan doctor (Tahar Rahim), who has been adopted, along with his sister, by Dr André Pinget, a wealthy, middle-aged Belgian physician (Niels Arestrup).

In intimate detail we see the generous, loving but possessive André taking over the lives of first the weak, indecisive Mounir and then Murielle, starting by accompanying them on their expensive honeymoon, and steadily granting every request they have, except for that for independence from him. It's a terrifying story that...

★★★★☆ Belgium's official entry for last year's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Joachim Lafosse's Our Children (À perdre la raison, 2012) finally receives a UK theatrical release this week after premièring to critical acclaim in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Boasting two of contemporary French cinema's heavyweights - Niels Arestrup and Tahar Rahim - plus a phenomenal lead performance from Émilie Dequenne (who first made her debut in the Dardenne brothers' Palme d'Or-winning 1999 drama Rosetta) - Our Children is a shrewd and overwhelmingly powerful tragedy of Euripidean proportions.

An elliptical narrative sees Our Children open upon Dequenne's Murielle in a hysterical state. The more observant of viewers will quickly piece together the source of her distress, yet like all great tragedies it's the road to disaster that evokes the most agonising of reactions. Lafosse flashes back to a happier period in Murielle's life, depicting her blossoming...

★★★☆☆ The third feature from French director Gilles Legrand, You Will Be My Son (Tu seras mon fils, 2011) sees the inimitable Niels Arestrup take the role of Paul de Marseul, a successful winemaker in Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux. With ample support from co-stars Lorànt Deutsch and Nicolas Bridet as his respective son and heir, Legrand has concocted a sharp, fruity family inheritance drama that he duly leaves to ferment ahead of the great uncorking. Whilst those with a receptive palette will find much to savour, what could have been the cinematic equivalent of a sprightly white or an intense red ends up more of a middling rose.

Disheartened by the notion of his 'weak' son Martin (a rodent-like Deutsch) taking over the family business, Paul faces further complication when his friend and business partner François (Patrick Chesnais) is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Paul doesn't believe his son to have inherited the qualities...

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Belgian writer and director Joachim Lafosse impresses with 'difficult' relationship drama Our Children (À perdre la raison, 2012), starring Émilie Dequenne and reuniting A Prophet (2010) lead duo Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup. Unequivocally tough and emotionally draining, Lafosse's latest makes no apologies for its bleak portrayal of a slowly disintegrating, non-traditional family unit, but remains a challenging, essential watch thanks to its on-form central triumvirate and resonant screenplay. What's more, despite revealing its dark finale in the opening few minutes, Lafosse's Un Certain Regard nominee retains a tense, tragic tone throughout. Read more »...

Montreal’s Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (10.10 – 10.21) announced their line-up today for their 41st edition and among the smorgasbord of subtitle offerings dating back to this year’s Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Venice and Tiff editions, we’re knee-deep in avant-garde world cinema from the established auteurs Assayas, Vinterberg, Ozon, Sang-Soo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Larrain, Loach, Reygadas, Ghobadi, Mungiu and Miguel Gomes. Heavy on offerings from Quebec and France, the fest also manages to offer a stellar snapshot of the up-and-comers from all corners of the globe. Among the notable titles in the (Competition category) International Selection we’ve got Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves, Ursula Meier’s Sister, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine (which received its theatrical release earlier this month) and Rodrigo Plá’s La Demora. Loaded in Cannes items, the Special Presentations is the fest’s A-list selections (see filmmakers named above) and the one pic...

14th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) announced its complete lineup today in a press conference. Mff will be held from October 18th to 25th at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Ncpa) and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues. Click here to watch trailers and highlights from the festival.

Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)

International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors

1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)

Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)

2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)

Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)

3. The Sapphires

Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)

4. The Wall (Die Wand)

Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)

5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)

Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)

6. Augustine

Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.

The New York Film Festival announced its full slate of films on Thursday, a line up of 32 titles that largely serves as a catch-all compendium of standouts from other international festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Toronto.

Along with the previously announced opening night film (Ang Lee’s Life of Pi), centerpiece gala (David Chase’s Not Fade Away), and closing night film (Robert Zemeckis’ Flight) — all world premieres — the highlights of the festival include: Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Ginger and Rosa, starring Elle Fanning as a girl growing up in 1962 London...

Amour

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the main slate of selections for the 50th New York Film Festival (September 28-October 14) including such notable directors as Olivier Assayas, Noah Baumbach, Leos Carax, Brian De Palma, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Ang Lee, Cristian Mungiu, Sally Potter, Alain Resnais, Raul Ruiz and Robert Zemeckis.

Regarding the line up of 32 films comprising the main slate for the 50th anniversary of Nyff Richard Peña, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, said, .The films making up the main slate of this year’s Nyff, have in common a general quality of fearlessness” that unites otherwise very disparate works. These are films that go all the way, works willing to take the risk or chance that by doing so they may be bringing audiences to places they might rather not go..

Award winners that will be presented for...

The 2012 New York Film Festival announced its main slate of movies Thursday. The 32 movies draw from a healthy mix of big named directors and indie favorites.

Films From Noah Baumbach ("Frances Ha"), Roger Michell ("Hyde Park on Hudson"), Michael Haneke ("Amour," which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year) and Abbas Kiarostami ("Like Someone in Love") were selected.

As previously announced, Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" will open the festival, David Chase's "Not Fade Away" is the Centerpiece Gala Selection and Robert Zemeckis' "Flight," starring Denzel Washington, will close the fortnight.

"Passion," Brian De Palma's widely anticipated film, will also screen at the Venice Film Festival, which runs from Aug. 29 to Sept. 8. A number of Nyff's selections actual make their bow at the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins Sept. 6.

Nyff runs Sept. 28 to Oct. 14. The full main-slate list of films is available below, direct from...

After Venice and Toronto unveiled their strong assembly of titles, the 50th annual New York Film Festival have released this year’s primary lineup. Short answer: We won’t be left out in the cold this fall.

Though not necessarily on the same massive scale as last year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center look to be offering some of world cinema’s finest options for 2012. The biggest title would, unquestionably, have to be Michael Haneke‘s Palme d’Or winner, Amour, while “the rest,” if you’re so callous as to call it that, include some of our favorite Cannes selections — including Abbas Kiarostami‘s Like Someone in Love, or Leos Carax‘s Holy Motors. Sure, maybe Beyond the Hills was a flat bore that didn’t live up to its director’s last effort, but at least I get to find out for myself.

Past those obvious picks,...

If you were hoping that an American entry would take home the big prize, the Palme d'Or much like last year's "The Tree of Life," hope again. The only American winner of the bunch was the Sundance darling, Benh Zeitlin's "Beast of the Southern Wild." Fox Searchlight, the studio behind the film, will now push the New Orleans delta water-adventure for upcoming awards.

Here's the complete list of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival winners:

In Competition

Palme d'Or

Amour (Love) directed by Michael Haneke

Grand Prix

Reality directed by Matteo Garrone

Award for Best Director

Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux

Award for Best Screenplay

Cristian Mungiu for DUPÃ Dealuri (Beyond The Hills)

Award for Best Actress

Cristina Flutur in DUPÃ Dealuri (Beyond The Hills) directed by Cristian MUNGIUCosmina Stratan in DUPÃ Dealuri (Beyond The Hills) directed by Cristian Mungiu

Award for Best Actor

Mads Mikkelsen in Jagten (The Hunt...

HollywoodNews.com: The official Jury of this 65th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Nanni Moretti, revealed this evening the prizes winners during the Closing Ceremony.

Bérénice Bejo hosted Audrey Tautou and Adrien Brody on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to Michael Haneke for his film Amour (Love).

Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueyroux starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier, was screened at the end of the ceremony.

Feature Films

Palme d’Or

Amour (Love) by Michael Haneke

Grand Prix

Reality by Matteo Garrone

Award for Best Director

Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux

Jury Prize

The Angels’ Share by Ken Loach

Award for Best Actor

Mads Mikkelsen in Jagten (The Hunt) by Thomas Vinterberg

Award for Best Actress

Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan in DUPÃ Dealuri (Beyond The Hills) by Cristian Mungiu

Award for Best Screenplay

Cristian Mungiu for pour DUPÃ...

Will Amour see Michael Haneke win his second Palme d'Or? Will the nuttiness of Leos Carax's Holy Motors herald the return of France's prodigal son? Or will someone we've barely heard of and paid almost no attention to sweep to victory? Join us to find out who will win the Cannes film festival's most prestigious prize, the Palme d'Or

6.23pm: Hello and welcome to the climactic moments of Cannes 2012, which will reach its crescendo in little over an hour from now, when the Palme d'Or, the Golden Palm, is bestowed by Nanni Moretti and his panel of jurors.

Rather appropriately, the skies have opened over Cannes: thunder and lightning are crashing over the Croisette and rain is pounding on the Palais. It's a suitable backdrop for the anointing of a new presiding genius, a magician of cinema. Will it be Michael Haneke, whose Amour has wowed the critics? Or might Leos Carax,...

DESPUÉS De Lucia (After Lucia) by Michel Franco won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. The Mexican film tells the story of a girl Alejandra and her dad Roberto who have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job.

The Special Jury prize went to Le Grand Soir by Benoît DELÉPINE and Gustave Kervern.

Two brothers who are complete opposites: one is a salesman in a chain store, while the other fancies himself the oldest punk-with-a-dog in Europe…But the twists of modern life will reunite them, putting them both on the street.

The film is a co-production between Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, France and Turkey.

Children Of Sarajevo by Aida Begic won a Special Jury Distinction. It follows the lives of Rahima (23) and Nedim (14), orphans of the Bosnian war.

Indian filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely screened in Un Certain Regard section.

The Nice airport is getting a bit less busy, and the cafés and hotels on the Croisette are quieter as the Cannes Film Festival wraps up today. Awards are starting to be handed out and first up are the prizes for the festival's Un Certain Regard category, which tends to feature newer, lesser-known directors and slightly edgier fare than the main competition lineup.

The jury, presided over by Tim Roth (who also starred in the Critics' Week opening film "Broken"), has given the Prize Of Un Certain Regard to Mexico's "Después de Lucía." To be honest, we heard very little about this one on the grounds of the fest, but the film directed by Michael Franco follows a father and daughter who are starting their lives over in a new town. This should give a nice boost to the film which doesn't have domestic distribution yet, but for the buyers...

The festival really came alive for me for the first time since Omirbaev's Student—not including what's obviously the best film here, but playing in Cannes Classics: Andrey Konchalovskiy's Runaway Train (1985)—with another film about the anguished-to-bursting suffering of students. Only, this was a high school musical gang film by Takashi Miike, For Love's Sake. Set in 1972, cracking with vibrant colors (and one of the handful of films here show on 35mm), images densely cluttered with classroom-alleyway bric-a-brac and as appreciative (and full) of constant brawling as a Raoul Walsh picture, the film takes its source manga and brings high school drama to the level of emotional sincerity and endless violence of the director's time traveling samurai epic, Izo. Each character devotes their love and themselves to one who cannot return that love, setting in motion a series of songs (and fights) pitting bad boys against nerds, bourgeois against orphans,...

Joachim Lafosse‘s latest project titled A perdre la raison (Loving Without Reason) is one of the movies that will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Unfortunately, we know very little about this movie, but at least we have one great image to share with you today. One thing is for sure – this movie [...]

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Several key talents from 2009's acclaimed "A Prophet" are re-teaming for Joachim Lafosse‘s next directorial effort "Aimer à perdre la raison" (aka. "Loving Without Reason") reports The Playlist.

'Prophet' scribe Thomas Bidegain and actors Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup are onboard for the story of a doctor who raises his friend’s brother in Belgium and the drama that develops when the boy grows up and raises his own family.

Émilie Dequenne also stars while Lafosse co-wrote the script which is inspired by a true story of a Belgian mother who killed her five children before attempting suicide.

Lafosse’s project has just begun filming.