Cannes

RJ crowned with prestigious award at 2017 Cannes Lions

Amman - Fana News

Royal Jordanian Airlines (RJ) has won the Bronze Lions award under the Direct category at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which is considered the most prestigious festival that celebrates the advertising and communications industry. The accolade was received in June in Cannes, France as part of the Festival’s awards ceremony, which also saw the shortlisting of RJ’s FearRead more

Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival

Sharjah - Emirates Voice

Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival, SICFF, has successfully concluded its visit to the 70th Cannes Film Festival in the South of France from May 17th to 28th. The organisation attended the event to meet with senior industry figures and to assess the cinematic offerings. Organised by FUNN, a Sharjah-based government body dedicated to promoting media arts among young people inRead more

Robber steals jewellery worth Dh59m in Cannes

Cannes - Arab Today

A robber who posed as a customer stole 15 million euros (Dh59 million) worth of jewellery from a shop in the French riviera resort of Cannes on Wednesday, local police said. The thief, in his thirties, entered the Harry Winston jewellery shop wearing sunglasses and was greeted as a customer before pulling out a gun and what appeared to beRead more

Nine films advance in Oscars foreign-language race

Los Angeles - AFP

Nine movies have made the cut to compete for a nomination for the best foreign-language film Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday. The shortlist includes Maren Ade's "Toni Erdmann," a German comedy about a troubled father-daughter relationship, which added a Golden Globe nomination in the foreign-language category on Monday after sweeping the board at theRead more

'Rocky Horror' does the time warp again - this time on TV

Cannes - AFP

Four decades after it first got audiences dancing in the aisles of cinemas, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is back with a tribute television version "Let's Do the Time Warp Again". The new film -- which airs Thursday on the Fox network in the US -- features the transsexual star Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the sexually voracious alien transvestiteRead more

Julie Andrews returns to TV to help kids put on a show

Cannes - AFP

Hollywood legend Julie Andrews is making her first television series in more than a decade to teach children how to put on a show, its producers said Sunday. The Oscar and Grammy winner is working with the creators of the Muppets on "Julie's Greenroom", a series which will air first on online streaming service Netflix. The British actress will playRead more

New wave of TV cartoons urge children to save seas

Cannes - AFP

Coral reefs may be dying off at an alarming rate and pollution and overfishing emptying the seas. But fear not. Help is at hand in the form of a new wave of cartoon superheroes determined to save the oceans. While Disney blockbusters "Finding Nemo" and "Finding Dory" have been attacked for sparking a spike in the poaching of tropical fish,Read more

Boycott test for Asia's top film festival

Seoul - Arab Today

The 21st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) kicks off Thursday, with an extended row over artistic freedom and a boycott by high-profile local cineastes threatening to undermine its reputation as Asia's premier movie showcase. This year's event will screen some 300 films from nearly 70 countries, including 66 features that will be receiving their world premieres. The World Cinema sectionRead more

Police in Cannes stop women wearing banned dress

Paris - Arab Today

Ten Muslim women wearing burkinis to the beach have been apprehended by police in the southern French city of Cannes in the three weeks since it imposed a temporary ban on the full body swimsuit, a local official said. Arguing that the burkini defies French laws on secularism, Cannes is one of three cities in France to have banned theRead more

Burkini bans cause ripples in France, consternation abroad

Paris - Arab Today

The decision by a handful of French mayors to ban the Islamic burkini swimsuit has divided the country and shocked its neighbors, with critics seeing the prohibitions as profoundly discriminatory. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls waded into the debate, saying the garment was “not compatible with the values of France and the Republic” and that he supported towns thatRead more