Cannes

If anyone had suggested a close collaboration between the two highly competitive Cannes and Venice films festivals this time last year, they probably would have been laughed out of the room.

The Riviera resort of Cannes should have been playing host to the world's biggest names in film. Instead, with its annual film festival postponed and the red carpet rolled up, locals made do with a drive-in cinema in a beachfront car park.

Corfu was the European holiday destination with the biggest decline in revenues from Airbnb per unit last year, according to alternative accommodation monitoring platform AirDNA, showing how fragile the short-term rental market is.

The event can take place in late June or early July, AFP reported.

The Cannes Film Festival will not be held as usual in May due to the spread of the coronavirus in France.

The event can be rescheduled at the end of June or early July. This is said in a statement released by the festival organizers.

Diversity, politics and revelations from the Nazi era will dominate the agenda as the Berlin film festival launches its 70th edition in the heart of the German capital on Feb. 21.

U.S. director Spike Lee has been named president of the jury for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, organizers said on Jan. 14.

The 62-year-old filmmaker, who succeeds Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, will head the panel that will award the 73rd Palme d'Or prize.

"Fire Will Come," (O Que Arde), a film shot in Spain's regional Galician language, has won the Golden Alexander Award at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

The film "Marie, Queen of Romania" by Alexis Sweet Cahill received the public choice award on Sunday, at the end of the tenth edition of the Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest festival, as part of a closing gala hosted by Cinema Pro in Bucharest, according to organisers. The award was handed to producer Gabi Antal, who announced that the film will open in theatres on November 8.

Berlin Golden Bear winner "Synonymes" by Nadav Lapid, and Cannes Camera d'Or awardee "Nuestras Madres" (Our Mothers) by Cesar Diaz will run in Bucharest on Saturday as part of the Les Films de Cannes a Bucharest events, according to the festival organisers.

Film director Juliano Dornelles, one of the most promising talents of the Brazilian cinema, on Saturday will be at Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest, Cannes movies in Bucharest, for the screening of his "Bacurau," co-directed with Kleber Mendonca Filho, the winner of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival's Jury Prize.