Benjamin DODMAN

With war still raging in Gaza, Palestinian filmmakers are in no mood to celebrate their strongest Cannes showing in years. But the movies screened at the world’s leading film festival, including brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser’s “Once Upon a Time […]

The decision to bar a French actor from a Cannes premiere over rape allegations has prompted talk of a U-turn from a festival that previously only paid lip service to the #MeToo movement. It echoes a wider – and equally belated

Fatma Hassona, the Gaza photojournalist whose death in an Israeli missile strike has sparked global outrage, was the victim of a targeted assassination, says Iranian director Sepideh Farsi, whose documentary on Hassona premiered in Cannes on Thursday.  Source link Benjamin DODMAN

Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona refused to be a mere statistic in Israel’s methodical destruction of Gaza. Her endeavour to document her people’s ordeal is the subject of “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”, a film by exiled Iranian

Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed at least 13 people overnight, the Palestinian territory’s civil defence said Wednesday, a day after health officials in the Hamas-run enclave said more than 400 people were killed in the bloodiest single day

Washington’s abrupt decision to freeze military aid to Ukraine has piled pressure on Kyiv’s European allies to take up the slack, giving new urgency to French calls for Europe to invest in a self-sufficient defence.  Source link Benjamin DODMAN

Prosecutors in France’s mass rape trial denounced the “casualness” of defendants who claimed their rape of Gisèle Pelicot was unintentional as they wrapped up their case on Wednesday, requesting lengthy jail terms and calls for a wider societal reckoning with

Successive murders in France’s second-largest city have cast a grim light on the growing use of teenage contract killers by rival drug lords in Marseille, the subject of a new book by a trio of French journalists that explores an

Nigeria became the first African country this week to receive a batch of vaccines against mpox, a viral disease whose rapid spread led the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency in mid-August. While more vaccine doses are