Four female directors were among the 19 nominated in the main category.

Customs handed over nine years of travel data to ACC after a claimant travelled to Cannes.

Acclaimed director prompts mass walkout at Cannes after outrage over his latest film.

Former Monty Python member suffers stroke ahead of his film's Cannes premiere.

A film by Sean Penn starring Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem, which has been entered for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, was received with jeers and criticism.

What on Earth would a film have to do to provoke that kind of reaction?

It was booed by critics, but Kristen Stewart's new film just got a massive standing ovation at its Cannes premiere.

Julia Roberts ascended the famed red-carpet steps to the Cannes Film Festival barefoot.

A Matthew McConaughey film about two men who find each other in a Japanese "suicide forest" has been loudly booed after its initial screenings at Cannes.

Having children is holding women back in Hollywood, Isabella Rossellini has said, as she claimed it was "unbelievably difficult" for actresses to work and have a family.

The latest Mad Max movie is an "incredibly feminist action film" according to Charlize Theron who's talking down her chances of an Oscar nomination for her role as Imperator Furiosa.

Little known outside her native France, director Emmanuelle Bercot is the first woman to open the famous film festival since 1987.

A New Zealand short film with its own Alice in Wonderland is being screened as part of the Cannes Film Festival in May.

The fashion at Cannes Film Festival 2014 is some of the most glam we've gushed over. The 12-day festival was as much about frocks as it was about films.

Here are our picks for Best Dressed at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

So what was the buzz among critics in Cannes this year? The buzz was actually the sound of snoring in press shows.

We're in the midst of daily gazing at the glamorous fashion gracing the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

Mexican actress Salma Hayek has used a red-carpet appearance to support the appeal for the release of more than 200 Nigerian kidnapped schoolgirls.

Red carpet looks from this year's Cannes Film Festival

NZ's Jane Campion, the only female director in Cannes Film Festival history to win the event's top prize, has thrown her biggest punch yet at the male-dominated industry.

A man pretending to be Gangnam Style rapper Psy ate, drank and partied with the stars at Cannes Film Festival for two days.

Behind the Candelabra, which stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon as Liberace and his teenage lover Scott Thorson, has generated huge buzz at Cannes.