61 m. ago The best and worst looks on the 2025 Cannes Film Festival red carpet

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is running from May 13 until May 24

Culture

5 h. ago Sound of Falling review – intergenerational angst haunts a German farmhouse

Cannes film festival Told in four different timeframes in the same rural family home, this story of national guilt and yearning is powerfully unsettlingHere is a mysterious and uncanny prose-poem of guilt, shame and yearning in 20th-century Germany, and the 21st; a drama of intergenerational trauma and genetic memories, visions and experiences suppressed and handed on to descendants and grandchildren in whom they can return as neurotic symptoms of the repressed.There are visual rhymes and unexplained cosmic echoes, and the film speaks of militarism and resentment, guilt and horror, with dark hints of abuse and sterilisation, the female slavery of domestic servitude and the pastoral world of rural Germany in which the city’s political currents are only dimly perceived. And it gestures at the terrible pathos of the old GDR, which laboured and sacrificed for 40 years after the war in Soviet vassalage finally to discover it was for nothing. The film’s original German title is In Die Son...

Politics

6 h. ago 2025 UK festival predictions: Who could rise and who could fall this summer?

We shake our Magic 8 Ball to predict who’ll have a good summer festival season and perhaps who won’t...

Politics

11 h. ago Cardiff music festival returns for 2025 as first details emerge

After a successful first year, the festival will be back this autumn

Culture

13 h. ago Juliette Binoche says Gerard Depardieu is ‘not a monster’ after guilty sexual assault verdict

Court ruling arrived same day Binoche launched Cannes Film Festival as 2025 jury president

Events

24 h. ago Halle Berry leads Cannes Film Festival 2025 WORST DRESSED list as she hits red carpet in frumpy frock

From over-the-top ruffles and bizarre feathers to barely-there looks and weirdly-shaped frocks, the 78th Cannes Film Festival has been filled with a slew of fashion fails.

Culture

29 h. ago Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2025: How to buy tickets, dates and who is performing this year

The Tattoo will feature a ‘storyteller’ for the first time

Events

30 h. ago Download Festival 2025: set times released a month ahead of this year’s festival

Who is set to clash with who as Download Festival release this year’s set times

Politics

35 h. ago Cannes Film Festival bans 'naked' looks after Bella Hadid stunt as rules exposed

Cannes Film Festival has released a new set of rules for the 2025 event, which includes a ban on nude illusion dresses following Bella Hadid's knockout number last year

Culture

58 h. ago Cannes Film Festival bans naked dresses and long trains from red carpet for 2025 event

Cannes Film Festival has banned three types of gowns from the red carpet in the name of ‘decency’ and efficiency — and it could play havoc with actors’ outfit plans

Culture

3 d. ago BAFTA TV Awards 2025 winners list in full as The Traitors suffer huge blow

All the winners at this year's BAFTA TV Awards as the 2025 stars came together at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall to celebrate the best of British TV

Events

3 d. ago BAFTA TV Awards 2025 viewers all say same thing just minutes into show

The BAFTA TV Awards 2025 is currently taking place at Southbank's Royal Festival Hall

Events

4 d. ago From the Montreux Jazz Festival to Primavera: the 12 best music festivals in Europe for 2025

From a former military airfield to a stage suspended over a lake, many of Europe’s best festivals offer spectacular scenery along with the biggest and best lineups. The Independent’s culture team share their favourites

Culture

4 d. ago Who art thine owners? The Texas Renaissance Festival has to pay $22 million in damages in dispute over purchase

Even though ‘King’ George Coulam is losing his crown, staff at the Texas Renaissance Festival said the 2025 season would continue as planned

Economics

5 d. ago Who art thou owners? The Texas Renaissance Festival has to pay $22 million in damages in dispute over purchase

Even though ‘King’ George Coulam is losing his crown, staff at the Texas Renaissance Festival said the 2025 season would continue as planned

Economics

5 d. ago Authors speak out against failed US book festival: ‘shattered badges and silence’

Grace Marsceau promised to pack A Million Lives event. Authors arrived to empty rooms, unpaid bills and no decorIn the days leading up to the A Million Lives book festival, things already seemed amiss. Grace Marsceau, the event organizer, messaged an attending author that the DJ was in the hospital and the company had no replacement. She owed the hotel “six figures” because the room block hadn’t sold out, according to messages.“Oh my gosh that’s awful!” author Sarah Zane responded. The excuses seemed unusual, but as a veteran of book events, Zane expected to deal with some mismanagement. Continue reading...

Culture

5 d. ago Willkommen, bienvenue! New festival celebrates translated fiction from Cameroon to Slovakia as sales boom

Co-organised by translator Polly Barton, Translated By, Bristol will feature conversations between writers and their translators, plus a ‘translation duel’A new festival of translated literature is being launched in Bristol next week amid a sales boom in translated fiction in the UK.Translated By, Bristol is the brainchild of Polly Barton, author and translator of the award-winning Butter by Asako Yuzuki, and Tom Robinson, owner of Gloucester Road Books, which is organising the festival alongside Barton and another independent Bristol bookshop, Storysmith. Continue reading...

Culture

6 d. ago Pembrokeshire Street Food Festival returns this summer to Tenby's South Beach

Pembrokeshire Street Food Festival is back for 2025 and this year they're returning to stunning Tenby South Beach

Society

6 d. ago Gin, Rum & Vodka Festival 2025: £9 tickets now available across 29 UK cities

Sip your way through the UK’s top spirit-tasting festival with tickets now just £9 — from Manchester to Edinburgh, this gin-fuelled day out is shaking things up

Economics

7 d. ago Win a luxury ticket package for two to this year’s Wilderness Festival – courtesy of Audi

Winner will receive a pair of complimentary festival tickets and boutique accommodation in a luxury cabin

Events