Lars von Trier has taken back his apology for saying at the Cannes Film Festival he sympathises with Adolf Hitler.

Lars Von Trier regrets making "foolish" comments about Nazism at the 'Melancholia' press conference at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

The Cannes Film Festival has ended for another year.

THE Tree of Life, an epic and ambitious coming-of-age film that took years for enigmatic US director Terrence Malick to bring to the screen, won top honours last night at the Cannes festival.

Danish director Lars Von Trier has been banned from the Cannes Film Festival and declared “persona non grata” after telling a press conference he was a Nazi and could understand Hitler.

CONTROVERSIAL director Lars Von Trier may not win the Palme d’Or at this, year’s Cannes Film Festival but he appears odds-on favourite to take the prize for the strangest press conference.

Director Lars Von Trier admitted Kirsten Dunst is a better actress than he thought when he gave her a part in his new film.

Bjork’s latest project was launched at the Venice Film Festival today and it is typically eccentric – a film which sees humans turn into whales.

In Your Hands (Metrodome) is the final film in Lars Von Trier’s Dogme 95 series, a stylish, evocative and very powerful drama.

Screen beauty Nicole Kidman will work with maverick director Lars Von Trier again for the final part of his cinematic trilogy - despite dubbing the making of his 2003 film Dogville her "craziest" movie

The Cannes Film Festival is back in the hands of comfy old friends with a line-up that includes such familiar filmmakers as Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Atom Egoyan.

The final Star Wars film will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, it was announced today.

Billy Elliott star Jamie Bell will be using an American accent on screen for the first time in Dear Wendy, a film written by Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier.

Although Nicole Kidman had a tough time filming Dogville for the demanding Danish director Lars Von Trier, she has committed to star in the next two films of his American-set trilogy U, S and A, reports the New York Post.

Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier is reportedly is planning to reunite with megastar Nicole Kidman for two more films.