Festival ushers caught fellow theatergoers recording "Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning" when SFGATE editor Dan Gentile attended a Cannes screening.

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French-German filmmaker Dominik Moll returned to the Cannes Competition on Thursday with police drama Dossier 137, which received a very enthusiastic eight-minute ovation — where the audience actually was standing.

Consortium Media Finance, founded by Marcus Warren and Christian Moore, has launched at the Cannes Film Festival, and unveiled its first projects.

With ‘Alpha,’ a film in which director Julia Ducournau goes even further. “It’s a way to expose myself more,” she says, “and to expose yourself more, I hope, in the same way.”

The Bangkok-based banner aims to elevate Thai storytelling for global audiences and will unveil two features at Cannes' Marche du Film.

But Rossellini introduced him around the industry, helping put Ben Ammar on a trajectory that would see him become a top advisor to the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Prince Al Waleed, as well as the head of Eagle Pictures, Italy’s top independent film distributor.