Film Festivals
‘I didn’t want to’: How John Clarke’s daughter surprised herself with a doco about her dad
Lorin Clarke had no desire to make a movie about her father – until she heard that a bunch of other filmmakers did, and they had it all wrong.
- Karl Quinn
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Arson, dissidents and jabs at Trump: The biggest moments from the 78th Cannes Film Festival
From power outages to lobster-stealing seagulls, here are the best, weirdest and most notable moments from La Croisette this year.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Power outage across Cannes during film festival being treated as sabotage
An arson attack at a substation and damage to a transmission tower cut off power in the area, French authorities said.
- Aurelien Breeden and Kyle Buchanan
Cannes 2025: The 75 best red carpet looks
Catch all the glamour and glitz as celebrities descend on the French Riviera for the 78th Cannes Film Festival.
Nicole Kidman honoured at Cannes, and looking for new female directors
This is the 32nd festival for the Australian actor. She reflects on the promise she made there in 2017.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Cannes bans red carpet nudity over celebrity craze for ‘the naked dress’
New dress rules – including a ban on nudity and “voluminous dresses” with large trains – have been added to the dress code ahead of the festival this week.
- Craig Simpson
Brisbane Film Festival gets new boss, funding boost and a Cannes relaunch
The new boss of Brisbane International Film Festival will announce BIFF’s reinvention as a co-production marketplace at the world’s premier film festival.
- Nick Dent
Hitler’s favourite filmmaker always denied she was a Nazi. Now we know the truth
The director of a new documentary on Leni Riefenstahl trawled through 700 boxes of material from her estate to find answers.
- Garry Maddox
The mother in this film is so awful she couldn’t be anything but real
Director Matthias Glasner turns his bleak upbringing into an award-winning – and unexpectedly funny – film.
- Stephanie Bunbury
How Julian Assange’s brother and a crypto artist raised $74m to free him
Gabriel Shipton and the cyber artist Pak joined forces to create an NFT artwork that played a major role in securing the WikiLeaks founder’s release.
- Karl Quinn
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