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John Clarke pictured in 2007.

‘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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Scarlett Johansson was one of many stars to strut down the red carpet at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

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
A shop worker stands at the door during the outage.

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
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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 at Cannes on Sunday.

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
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“Our vision is to centre both filmmakers and audiences, to really build up the industry capacity of the festival.” New executive director of the Brisbane International Film Festival, Sophie Mathisen.

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
Adolf Hitler with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl on Nazi party day in Nuremberg, 1934.

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
In one scene in Dying, Lissy (Corinna Harfouch) tells her son that she never liked him.

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
Gabriel Shipton at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, February 2025.

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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