‘We have to stop what’s going on, it’s insane’: Robert De Niro on battling age, apathy and Trump

As the actor receives an honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes film festival, he talks about why he couldn’t look at himself if he didn’t speak out about the US president and politics

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries ‘nightmare’ of Putin-Trump alliance

In Cannes to promote his Stalinist drama Two Prosecutors, the film-maker said he feared the US and Russia would soon ‘become equal’

Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection

Drawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning review – world-saving Tom Cruise signs off with wildly entertaining adventure

Cruise does things his way in this eighth and last Mission: Impossible, as his maverick agent Ethan Hunt takes on the ultimate in AI evil

‘We couldn’t tell if he was conscious’: Tom Cruise got stuck on top of biplane shooting Mission: Impossible sequel

The star, who at 62 performed his own stunts for the forthcoming Final Reckoning, tells Cannes press conference ‘I don’t mind encountering the unknown’

Enzo review – Laurent Cantet’s swan song is a heartfelt tale of youth and desire

This powerful drama from the late film-maker and his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, who directs, charts the growing pains of a teenager from a privileged family

Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day) review – foodie musical is an undercooked turkey

Dreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked roots

Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: ‘This isn’t just America’s problem’

Accepting honorary Palme d’Or at opening ceremony of festival, actor rails against the US’s ‘philistine president’

Naked dressing: why Cannes is demanding celebrities wear clothes on the red carpet

The film festival seems to have rejected one of this season’s hottest fashion trends - wearing very little at all. But why all the worry?

Career change: Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson to premiere directorial debuts at Cannes

Eleanor the Great, The Chronology of Water and Urchin are all in the festival’s prestigious Un Certain Regard sidebar. A first step to being the next Clint Eastwood?

‘It’s all very sad’: Trump’s attack on arts funding has a devastating effect

The president’s steady dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts has affected organizations across the US with more chaos set to continue

Sharp Corner review – Ben Foster unravels in smart, darkly compelling thriller

Actor plays a father desperate to prove his worth in an entertainingly nasty look at dangers of entitled mediocrity

A high school singing audition inspired by Flashdance haunted me for years – until I found my voice again

My singing voice is rarely tested, except for the occasional Happy Birthday. But a music festival choir singalong changed everything

Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94

Prolific Canadian director also made one of the country’s first internationally successful films, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss

Pillion, Phoenician and Panahi: superb lineup set to extend Cannes’ Oscar-sweeping streak

After a tricky few years, the world’s pre-eminent film festival has come roaring back and is set to feature new work by Kelly Reichardt, another Joachim Trier drama starring Renate Reinsve and Cannes icons the Dardenne brothers