“Journalists spreading fake news”. Drawing by American cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, 1894. Frederick Burr Opper/Wikimedia

“Journalists spreading fake news”. Drawing by American cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, 1894. Frederick Burr Opper/Wikimedia

Covid, Ukraine, Gaza : The Lost Honor of Journalists

Would the dice be loaded? Would global information now be controlled by a few planetary industrial groups? The question is raised with each election, with each crisis, in the United States, in France, and elsewhere. Social networks and lobbies have taken control of our brains.

A dozen former jury presidents came to celebrate the Festival's 50th anniversary, including Claude Lelouch, Costa-Gavras, Pierre Lescure, Guillaume Canet, Jean-Jacques Annaud...

A dozen former jury presidents came to celebrate the Festival's 50th anniversary, including Claude Lelouch, Costa-Gavras, Pierre Lescure, Guillaume Canet, Jean-Jacques Annaud...

Once upon a time in America

Films tell the story of the United States at the Deauville American Film Festival, where “In the Summers” was awarded the Grand Prix for the 50th edition, and where Francis Ford Coppola and Natalie Portman received standing ovations in recent days.

Actress Daisy Ridley has found the strength within herself to embody women who are all facing something.

Actress Daisy Ridley has found the strength within herself to embody women who are all facing something.

New Hollywood in Deauville

The American Film Festival showcases many independent films made in the USA, as well as the new stars of today and tomorrow, including this year Sebastian Stan, Daisy Ridley, Mikey Madison, Sean Baker…

Twenty-five years after the tribute to his father Kirk, Michael Douglas received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Twenty-five years after the tribute to his father Kirk, Michael Douglas received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Half a century of America at Deauville

The 50th American Film Festival is currently underway in Normandy, where audiences have been able to applaud Michael Douglas at the opening, discover Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, attend the tribute to filmmaker James Gray… and see or re-see “50 films that changed the way we look at the world”.

Pavel Duroc (TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pavel Duroc (TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Telegram founder arrested in France: dictatorship on the march

Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of 900-million-user encrypted messenger Telegram, was arrested this Saturday at Le Bourget airport. The 39-year-old Franco-Russian billionaire was arrested by French authorities under a search warrant issued by the French Office for Combating Violence Against Minors.