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Lyna Khoudri plays Nedjma a resilient young woman in Papicha directed by Mounia Meddour

Cinefile October-November 2019 French releases

Leyna Bloom in 'Port Authority' a film by Danielle Lessovitz

Cinefile September 2019 - Port Authority, Du Sable et du Feu

Ursula Mcfarlane, documentary filmmaker and director of 'Untouchable', about the rise and fall of film producer Harvey Weinstein, Paris, August 2019.

Cinefile Late Summer 2019 - Untouchable and Late Night

Dr Wallace Fiennes (Jeff Goldblum) about to perform a lobotomy through a patient's eye socket in the 2018 film 'The Mountain' by Rick Alverson

In which... Denis Lavant talks about Alverson's 'The Mountain', Lav Diaz about 'The Halt'

Anna (Judith Chemla) and Adam (Arthur Igual) in My Polish Honeymoon in love but at odds over roots issues

All about Yves, My Polish Honeymoon and Zombi Child

Issa Percia (C) one of the main roles in Ladj Ly's film 'Les Misérables", co-winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, May 2019

CANNES 2019 SPECIAL: Les Misérables, Atlantique,

The three main characters in Alvaro Brechner's Twelve Year Night rarely appear together throughout the film

Nadav Lapid's Synonymes and Alvaro Brechner's A Twelve Year Night

Sara and Salam, an unlikely duo on the run in Mohamed al Daradji's challenging film, The Journey aka Baghdad Station

'The Journey' and 'Whatever happened to my revolution'

Kabullywood, a Franco-Afghan film released in France on 6 February 2019

January Special : French film Kabullywood harnesses youths' hunger for arts

Late Polish reporter Riczard Kapuscinski and Angolan camera-reporter Luis Alberto Ferreira animated in 'Another Day of Life', docu-drama using motion capture animation by Raul de la Fuente and Damian Nenow (2018)

CINEFILE January 2019 Another Day of Life and Les invisibles

Jacques (Jean Dujardin) and Monique (Yolande Moreau) in I Feel Good directed by Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delepine, 2018

I Feel Good, Fortuna, The Wind Turns

Pawel Pawlikovski, Polish film director in Paris. Winner of Director's Palm Award Cannes Festival 2018 for Cold War.

Love smoulders in Cold War and embers refuse to die in L'amour Flou

Rupert Everett plays 19th Century writer Oscar Wilde in his directoral debut 'The Happy Prince'

A compassionately splendid The Happy Prince, in We the Coyotes, LA tests young love

Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (R) won the award for Best Screenplay for 'Happy as Lazzaro' at Cannes Film Festival, May 2018

Happy as Lazzaro and The Mumbai Murders

French actor Félix Maritaud in "Sauvage"

Young men make tough, clear choices in 'Shéhérazade' and 'Sauvage'

In Lucrecia Martel's "Zama", Don Diego de Zama waits by the Parana River for a boat to take him back to his family.

Martel's colonial, absurd and splendid 'Zama' and Silver's rare Franco-US coprod 'Thirst Street'

S. Collardey’s hero Anders Hvidegaard turns down a future on the family farm in southern Denmark, to become a school teacher among Inuit in Greenland in A Polar Year.

Lav Diaz's dark Season of the Devil, Samuel Collardey's luminous A Polar Year

Still from "Capharnaüm" by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki. The film won the 'Prix du Jury' in Cannes.

Cannes Film Festival awards and The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir

Gemma Arterton plays Tara in The Escape (Une Femme Heureuse), 2018.

Is Gemma Arterton a happy woman; Walid Mattar follows the Northern Wind

Still from "La Prière" directed by Cédric Kahn

The Prayer; The International Paris documentary film festival

Ziad Doueiri, Director of The Insult, which released in Paris on 31 January, 2018

Two wrongs don't make a right in the tense movie, The Insult

Alfred Renely stars in Rachid Hami's 2017 La Mélodie (The Orchestra Class)

The Orchestra Class directed by Rachid Hami and The Planter by Marine Francen

Actress Mariam Al Ferjani in "Beauty and the Dogs" by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania

Beauty and the Dogs tells not so pretty Tunisian rape tale

Hiam Abbas stars as heroine Oum Yazan (R) and Juliette Navis plays Delhani the housemaid (L) in Philippe Van Leeuw’s In Syria (Une famille syrienne).

A unique look at war in Philippe van Leeuw's In Syria and Raoul Peck's lesser-bearded The Young Karl Marx

Still from "120 battements par minute" by Robin Campillo

A meeting with 120 BPM's Robin Campillo

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