Catherine Deneuve

The great French film star Catherine Deneuve will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in September, organizers said on June 1.

Romanian-born French-Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha (1929-2010) began his career as an artist while struggling to survive in a Nazi concentration camp in World War II, taking down the scenes around him. A painter, draughtsman and printmaker, Arikha's career spanned several decades.

French film star Catherine Deneuve, who set off a worldwide feminist backlash for bashing the #MeToo movement, has apologised to victims of sexual assault, saying there was “nothing good” about harassment.

Steven Soderbergh is showing me a collage he’s been making. Half-finished, it sits on a table in his New York office. Composed entirely of movie stars in character, the work gives pride of place to Robert De Niro as a mohawked Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. He’s flanked by River Phoenix, John Belushi, Sacha Baron Cohen, Dennis Hopper and Catherine Deneuve.

For the third summer in a row, the beautiful mountain village of Parthenonas in Greece's Halkidiki region will host a film festival featuring Greek, American, Swedish and French cinema classics.

Penelope Cruz, Hugh Jackman, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Gere and Robert Pattinson are among the high-wattage stars due on the red carpet at the Berlin film festival, organizers said on Jan. 31 as they revealed the lineup.

The 67th Berlinale is the first major cinema showcase in Europe each year and presents nearly 400 productions from around the world.  

France's "Mustang" and Hungary's "Son of Saul" are among the nine films that have made it onto a shortlist in the contest for the foreign-language Oscar, Academy Awards organizers said late Dec. 17.

The nine films, seven of them from Europe, one from Colombia and one from Jordan, were selected from 81 submissions.

Antalya Mayor Menderes Türel has said people wearing t-shirts and jeans instead of a suit and tie would not be granted admittance to the Antalya International Film Festival this year, in an attempt to uphold the prestige of the event.

The Lifetime Achievement Award of the 52nd International Antalya Film Festival will be presented to a legendary actress in cinematic history, Catherine Deneuve. 

According to a written statement made by the festival committee, the famous French actress, the festival's guest of honor, will receive her award at the opening ceremony of the festival to be held on Nov. 29. 

The Cannes Film Festival unrolled its red carpet with a socially minded French drama as the glitzy festival began May 13 on a more serious note after January's terror attacks in Paris.