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A shoestring budget these days for a film production still usually amounts to a few hundred thousand dollars. How then does a film fare when it's made for only £45?

The 61st Annual Film Festival began May 14th and will run through May 25th.

The Palme d'Or hopefuls may be grabbing all the headlines but, as always, the Cannes Film Festival's other major competition offers up some equally worthy fare.

One of the most anticipated films at the 62nd annual Festival De Cannes is Terry Gilliam's surreal morality tale,The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

The prestigious Cannes Film Festival is known for its selection of gritty movies, but 2009 was particularly tough. Here is a run-down of the main award winners.

Held for the first time in 1946, the Cannes Film Festival has grown to become the world's most influential film festival, attracting top actors, directors and critics.

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival has chosen Disney/Pixar's Up to be the opening ceremony film on May 13th, the first animated film to be so honoured.

Laurent Cantet's French film The Class is hailed a masterpiece by the 2008 Palme d'Or Jury at Cannes.

Canadian Cartoonist Cordell Barker (The Cat Came Back) returns with Runaway, another great NFB animated short. 8/10.

Balint Kenyeres’ Cannes and Sundance short film selection Before Dawn.

Anime feature film to be screened at Cannes Film Festival May 22.

There's much more to Cannes than merely a Film Festival. Wait for the movie stars to leave town, then explore its markets, museums, and the peaceful offshore islands.

Fernando Meirelles's controversial new film made an impression on the Cannes audience this year but was it positive or negative?

About 78 million foreigners headed to France in 2006, making it the top tourist destination in the world once again.

In this interview, Up writer/directors Pete Docter and Bob Peterson discuss talking the film to Cannes, and their advice to animators.

In a promotional featurette, Pixar co-founder calls Up "the funniest Pixar film we've ever made." Pete Docter, Bob Peterson film comes out May 29th.

The Bangkok International Film Festival gives in to Iranian demands not to screen Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's award-winning animated film.

France has picked Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis as its contender for the 2008 Oscars. Cue much gnashing of teeth from Tehran.

Iranian officials are furious after Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Film shared award with Carlos Reygadas' Stellet Licht.

On March 11th 1959 Raisin In The Sun opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore theatre. It was a landmark moment for its writer and the African American community.

New print of classic Miyazaki film packs house at film festival.

The Edge of Heaven is one of the more thought provoking films to come about in some time and should be received well by art house auds and academics alike.

One of this years most anticipated film releases is the tongue-twistingly titled, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Travel to France's Côte d'Azur to spot Hollywood stars on the red carpet, classical music concerts, the world's greatest acrobats and the battle of the flowers.

Follow these simple suggestions for getting the most out of a film festival.

There are only a few true cases when film meets its mark. Von Trier's latest is a true mixture of writing, visual, audial, and the passionate wanderings of the soul.

The competitors for this years Palme d'Or have been announced, featuring established European auteurs and cinematic upstarts both old and new.

Tarantino brings the world an even bigger dollop of sweet, vicious, un-PC revenge, served ice-cold.

Michael Moore's ambitious new film skewers corporate greed and its influence on politics, while championing a more democratic, yet vaguely defined, economic system.

A bitter-sweet comedy about a loser postman who receives words of wisdom from his hero the philosophical football legend Eric Cantona

Moore takes on the U.S. health care system with a film that promises to be as controversial as "Farenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine." Can it alter views on health?

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the new film from acclaimed French film director, Julian Schnabel, testifies to the strength of the human spirit.

From Cannes to Kerala and Sundance to Raindance, here is an overview of the main international film festivals taking place from month to month.

A teacher, Monsieur Marin (François Bégaudeau) tries to teach a class of racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighbourhood

The 2009 New York Film Festival has plenty of films in the Main Slate selection worth heading to the Big Apple for.

Canadian animation legend's films shown at Cannes Film Festival May 22.

" ... some people don't want to have their wedding ruined by having a kitch ... but some do ..." - find how how kitchy in the British comedy film Confetti.

Jeffrey Katzenberg says that he wants to use Indian animation studios.

Based on the best selling book, the film adaptation of FAST FOOD NATION has its heart in the right place and possible also in your next burger.

Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles will get a limited theatrical release on October 20. DVD comes out November 21.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents "A Salute to Norman McLaren" on August 18 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills.

Angelina and Brad join the recent twin baby-boom in Hollywood with their new son and daughter.

Senior luxury cruise enthusiasts sure to enjoy 12-days of movie and theater stars in "Theater at Sea" while calling on Mediterranean Italian and other ports.

Dennis Hopper, Academy Award nominated actor, has been making movies since 1955. He worked with James Dean, Peter Fonda, Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nicholson.

From the Internationale Filmfestspiele & Karnavel der Kulturen to naked flesh at the gay and lesbian parade & the concerts of Festtage in der Staatsoper, party in Germany

Actor Bob Hoskins revealed that he will act in a motion capture version of A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey and directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Tarantino's World War II epic doesn't begin with a bang, but rather a slow burn.

Iran still irate whenever someone screens Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. This time it's the Wellington Film Festival in New Zealand.

It was a fractured career - and yet, writer-director Jules Dassin showed a talent that could not be corrupted

Mario Bava's haunting masterpiece restored. Initially released in butchered form as part of The House of Exorcism, Lisa and the Devil is one of Bava's best films.