Some 50 intellectuals and filmmakers, including Briton Ken Loach, have accused the Toronto film festival of "complicity with the Israeli propaganda machine" over its spotlight this year of Tel Aviv. The Toronto International Film Festival chose this year to present 10 films on the Jewish metropolis by local filmmakers for its "City to City" programme, which each year focuses its ...

British filmmaker and activist Ken Loach has moved to withdraw his work from Melbourne's International Film Festival in protest against partial sponsorship from Israel, a report said Saturday. Loach, whose work The Wind that Shakes the Barley won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 2006, wrote to the festival's director Richard Moore threatening to pull his film ...

A feature from a young French director and a short film from Sweden picked up Saturday the top prizes at Critics' Week, a side section at the Cannes film festival aimed at fostering new talent. French film-maker Nassim Amaouche, 32, took the prize for best feature with a movie on the last residents of a dying industrial town titled "Adieu ...

As Cannes gears up to award its coveted Palme d'Or, Ken Loach scored an early goal Saturday for his football flick "Looking for Eric," scooping the Ecumenical Jury Prize. Starring temperamental football legend Eric Cantona, the British director's feelgood film is one of half a dozen frontrunners for the festival's top prize, out of 20 movies in ...