Cate Blanchett in San Sebastian The Australian actress and producer Cate Blanchett received the first Donostia Award of the San Sebastian Festival's 72nd edition this evening at the gala in the Kursaal Centre, where she considered it an "honour" to receive the event's highest accolade and gave an imioned defence of the "desire to know". Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, for whom Blanchett has just worked on the miniseries Disclaimer, presente...

Born and raised in Paris and of Vietnamese heritage, Lang Khê Tran was immersed in the cinematic world from a young age, with her father as a director and her mother as both an actress and artistic director. Having studied theatre and cinema at La Sorbonne University in Paris, complemented by a year of applied arts, she started to model in and London. Her debut in cinema was alongside Gaspard Ulliel, Gérard Depardieu, and Guillaume Gouix in Guillaume Nicloux...

Award-winning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander recently was honored in the Czech Republic at the 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with the President’s Award, in advance of the screening of her latest feature, the historical drama Fireband by director Karim Ainouz. In the film, Vikander plays the role of Queen Catherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII, played by Jude Law. Firebrand Incidentally, Vikander’s first international film A Royal Affair in which she played Caroline M...