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Greek cinema has made a splash on the red carpet of the 75h annual Cannes Film Festival, as a total of five films that were either filmed in Greece or made by Greeks were entered into the festival. This is...

A millionaire Greek club owner and a Portuguese reality TV star got engaged earlier this week in Cannes, after the 63-year-old man proposed on the red carpet. Milos Kant dropped to one knee in front of banks of photographers and...

The Greek progressive rock and metal artist Oh. (Olivia Hadjiioannou) was honored earlier this week by a prestigious international jury in Cannes for her music video “Red Lion” from the album, “Metallia.” The two-day festival held at the time of...

Acclaimed Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos will be among the members of this year's jury for the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival, the event organizers announced on Monday. Lanthimos will be one of the four male members of the eight-member...

The sisters Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, directors and screenwriters of the French-Greek movie "Voir le Pays" won an award from the committee of the department "Un Certain Regard" at the Cannes Film Festival. "Voir le Pays" is a film...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Lobster”, a dark comedy set in a dystopian future, has just won the Jury Award (Prix du Jury) at the Cannes Film Festival. “The Lobster” markes Lanthimos’ first English-language film, and stars well-known actors like Colin Farrell,...

The film festival in Cannes organized the screening of Costas Gavras' classic film “Z” on Monday, in a restored version in honor of the award-winning Greek-French film director and producer. Cannes Film Festival artistic director Thierry Frémaux praised Gavras' work for its ability to cross...

The new film of Oscar-nominated Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, "The Lobster", was screened at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in May 15. The movie is the director's first English language movie to compete in the festival’s main competition section for the...

The Greek director Panos Koutras, won critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival for his fourth feature film, "Xenia," which was screened in the "Un Certain Regard" section of the festival, on Sunday, May 18. "Xenia" is described as his best...

Greek-French actress Adele Exarchopoulos was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes film festival for her role in the film Blue is the Warmest Colour (original title: La Vie d’ Adele). This year the jury  was headed by...

Adele Exarchopoulos, a young actress of Greek origin, is the favorite for the best leading actress award in this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The 19-year old actress arrived at the famed event stealing the show. Exarchopoulos stars in Abdellatif Kechiche's...

Two young men, a house and the different feelings they experience during the development of their relationship is the basic recipe on which the film India Blues is based. The director George Markakis that has known success in the...

Greece will be featured at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Regions Capitales pour le cinema that will take place from May 15-26 as the most noted of the world's events on movies No Greek film has been chosen to...

CANNES - Androulla Vassiliou, the Cypriot European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, and Youth, arrived in Cannes in order to promote the EU’s MEDIA program and give the first ever ‘Prix MEDIA’ award to Iranian filmmaker Ashgar Farhadi, the...

The 65th Cannes film festival has handed out its top prize Palme d'Or to "Amour"(Love), as it wrapped up with a star-studded closing ceremony here on the rainy Sunday night in the French Riviera resort. The ceremony came after all...