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The ecumenical jury at Cannes was inaugurated in 1974, following the efforts of the organization Interfilm. Delegates from various European Protestant film associations founded Interfilm in 1955. According to the …

On May 18 an ecumenical celebration of cinema took place here in Cannes. There was a Sunday Mass at Notre Dame de Bon Voyage Church that is directly across the …

One of the press releases for the Cannes Film Festival noted of the 1,845 feature films submitted from 39 countries for the competition to the selection committee, 26% were directed …

The 72nd Cannes Film Festival ended on May 25 with the awarding of the jury prizes. Our ecumenical jury watched the awards ceremony on television at the house of the …

Franco Zeffirelli, the famed film director and film, television and opera producer, died on June 15, 2019, in Rome at the age of 96. He was born out of wedlock …

In July 1916, young British signals officer J.R.R. Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult) lies extremely ill in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme in France. He is desperate for news …

Director Patrick Creadon’s new documentary, “Hesburgh,” named for its compelling subject, the cigar-smoking Holy Cross Fr. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, is a sweeping biography of a man whose towering influence in …

In the year A.D. 33, Mary (Rooney Mara) is a young woman — in the new film “Mary Magdalene” — who spends her days with the women of Magdala along …

Cannes, France, located on the French Riviera and not too far from the Italian border, has been the home of the Cannes International Film Festival since its beginning in 1946. …

In the Easter Vigil reading from Romans, Paul writes:

“Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him …

On May 18 an ecumenical celebration of cinema took place here in Cannes. There was a Sunday Mass at Notre Dame de Bon Voyage Church that is directly across the …

The ecumenical jury at Cannes was inaugurated in 1974, following the efforts of the organization Interfilm. Delegates from various European Protestant film associations founded Interfilm in 1955. According to the …