Juliette Binoche

'The Taste of Things,' which hopes to win an Oscar nod in January, is a sumptuous 19th century romance about a cook.

Controversy has simmered around France's entry for the Oscars, "The Taste of Things," a love letter to the country's culinary traditions but filmmaker Tran Anh Hung and star chef Pierre Gagnaire say the art of cooking is worth celebrating.

A powerful drama inspired by Homer's Odyssey and starring Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus and Juliette Binoche as Penelope is wrapping up filming at the end of the month on the Ionian island of Corfu, state broadcaster ERT reported on Tuesday.

The 72nd Berlin film festival awarded its Golden Bear top prize on Feb. 16 to Spanish director Carla Simon's semi-autobiographical drama "Alcarras," about a family of peach farmers fighting for their future.

The Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, will take place next month as an in-person event, organizers confirmed on Jan. 19, just as the Omicron wave is expected to peak in Germany.

Romanian film director and screenwriter Radu Jude will be honoured at the La Rochelle Cinema (FEMA)Festival, which will take place June 25-July 4. At the 49th edition of the event in France, Jude will be honoured alongside French filmmaker Xavier Beauvois, Lebanese filmmakers Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and French composer Gabriel Yared.

Oscar winner and one of France's most recognized actresses, Juliette Binoche, will head the jury of next year's Berlin film festival, organizers said Dec. 11.

The International Bosphorus Film Festival, which kicks off Nov. 20, will host Susan Batson, the acting coach of famous movie stars including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Juliette Binoche and Liv Tyler. 

"Last year, Ivana Chubbuck attended our festival. This year we will host another very famous acting coach, Susan Batson," said Ogün ?anl?er, the chairman of the festival. 

We saw Juliette Binoche for the first time in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Three Colours: Blue” movie and we fell in love with her talent. The French actress has visited Greece many a time and is a huge fan of ancient drama. In a few weeks, the actress will be acting out Antigone, in London the famous Sophocles ancient tragedy, this time directed by Ivo Van Hove.

Nobody Wants the Night is a Spanish-French-Bulgarian co-production recently opened the 65th edition of the Berlinale Film Festival.

The movie tells the story of adventurous young men and women are trying to find their place in history through the winter frost of Greenland, as reported by Film New Europe.

New movies starring Juliette Binoche, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren and Lea Seydoux will put women in the spotlight when they premiere at the 65th Berlin film festival starting on Jan. 5.