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Dissident Iranian filmmaker Panahi wins top prize at Cannes
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» CANNES (FRANCE) - "It Was Just an Accident" by dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Festival on Saturday.
Cannes closes with Iranian, Ukrainian films in spotlight
AFP, Published on 24/05/2025
» CANNES, France - The Cannes Festival draws to a close on Saturday, with a wry Iranian film about political prisoners and a Ukrainian-directed drama about despotism among the frontrunners to pick up the Palme d’Or top prize.
Thai Night 2025 showcases thai cinema at cannes
Published on 22/05/2025
» Cannes, France – May 22, 2025 – The Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP), Ministry of Commerce, successfully organised Thai Night 2025, an event aimed at enhancing the global presence of the Thai entertainment industry and promoting international business networking. The event took place on Thursday, May 15, 2025, during the renowned Cannes Film Festival – one of the world’s most prestigious international film festivals. Her Royal Highness Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi presided over the ceremony, delivered an inspiring keynote address, and extended a warm welcome to distinguished guests, including producers, directors, content creators, and media representatives from around the world.
Thai film ‘A Useful Ghost’ wins Cannes prize
Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/05/2025
» CANNES — The Thai film Pee Chai Dai Ka (A Useful Ghost) has won the Grand Prix at Critics’ Week, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Thai film to ever win the prize.
The long and brutal voyage
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/05/2025
» In 1521, when his galleon finally cut through the treacherous Pacific Ocean, when the island of Cebu first appeared in his sight at the edge of the horizon, when its slender coconut trees and thatched huts and maybe its half-naked inhabitants came into view, when he lays eyes on all of these, what went through the mind of Ferdinand Magellan?
A hell of a night. On loop
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 21/05/2025
» In Until Dawn, horror is a ticking clock.
Agents of change
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/05/2025
» Awash with saturated colour and steeped in Brazil's history of authoritarianism, Kleber Mendoça Filho's The Secret Agent has emerged as a serious contender for the Palme d'Or. A former film critic, programmer and now a leading voice in Brazilian cinema, Mendoça Filho's fourth feature -- and his third in Cannes Competition -- is a political thriller, a tribute to disappeared dissidents, and a deft ode to the way memory is passed through time and technology.
Actors' union sues Fortnite over AI Darth Vader
AFP, Published on 20/05/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - An actors' union is suing the makers of the Fortnite video game over the use of AI to create an interactive Darth Vader, it said Monday.
Nicole Kidman champions gender equality at star-studded Cannes party
Published on 19/05/2025
» CANNES, France - Australian actor Nicole Kidman vowed to keep pushing for gender equality in cinema at an exclusive party attended by celebrities like popstar Charli XCX and Irish actor Paul Mescal on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
A Useful Ghost fills a vacuum at Cannes
Life, Published on 19/05/2025
» What begins as comedy sometimes ends as horror. Or maybe: What begins as comedy sometimes ends as tragicomedy. Last Saturday, writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke presented Pee Chai Dai Kha (A Useful Ghost) at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the sole Thai title in the festival.