Anton Corbijn’s CONTROL has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Directors’ Fortnight/Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section, it was announced today by a jury of four Europa Cinemas exhibitors. The Label will be awarded this evening at the Directors Fortnight prize ceremony.This marks the fifth year that the Europa Cinemas Label will be awarded at Cannes, and complements the Labels awarded at the Panorama section in Berlin, the Venice Days section of the Mostra del Cinema,...

Further supporting its ongoing campaign to promote European films, Europa Cinemas will return once again to this years 60th. Cannes Film Festival, awarding its Label prize to the best European film in the Directors’ Fortnight/Quinzaine des Réalisateurs  section (May 17/27). This marks the fifth year that the Europa Cinemas Label will be awarded at Cannes, and complements the Labels awarded at the Panorama section in Berlin, the Venice Days section of the Mostra del Cinema, and Karlovy Vary.A...

PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA, the sole documentary among eight competition movies in the first-annual Turks & Caicos International Film Festival, was named Best Film by the event’s jury in the Caribbean before a Closing Night Gala crowd.PLAGUES & PLEASURES, directed by Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer, examines the hangers-on who believe their town just south of Palm Springs will once again become a mecca for sun worshippers, despite being one of the U.S.’s “biggest ecological disa...