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On a day when thousands demonstrated raucously in Paris against the new French law allowing gay marriage, the jury at the Cannes Film Festi...

How much of a story can you tell in 15 or 20 minutes? Quite a lot, if the short films shown at the Cannes Film Festival are anything to go ...

“Justin, Justin,” screamed scores of photographers in Cannes this week, as they tried to get the attention of gleaming singer-actor Justin ...

India is the world’s biggest producer of films, but it has been almost 20 years since the country had a contender for the top prize at the C...

The  global financial crisis has affected many international arts events, but some are soldiering  on despite funding cuts and other diffic...

Herbie Hancock Some of the world's biggest jazz stars will be performing in Istanbul when the Turkish city hosts the main global ev...

The exhibition at UNESCO, showing Elizabeth, in a photograph by Nichole Sobecki Six-year-old Elizabeth lives in Kibera, a huge slum...

The new Marisa Monte CD From film festivals to photography exhibitions, Brazilian culture will be in the spotlight in Europe over the...

The famed Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has long used his camera as a tool to help protect the environment. He is now holding co...

Behind the Scenes in Haiti ©Martha Adams, Richard E. Robbins, Gina Nemirofsky, 10x10act.org10x10act.org Girl Rising is a film that m...

Just as we were preparing to publish the following review of Chinua Achebe’s "There Was a Country", we received news that the gre...