Cinema, music, arts, festivals and global cultural trends.
On Friday, September 25, Pope Leon XIV rode in a popemobile through Paris, greeting an estimated crowd of 250,000 along a 2.5-kilometer route from Montparnasse to Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Pope Leon XIV's mass, scheduled Saturday at Place de la Concorde in Paris, expects over 600,000 faithful. Despite historic decline, this event shows renewed fervor with more adults baptized annually.
The San Sebastián Film Festival, as last year, supports remembrance of the July 1936 military uprising and Franco dictatorship by screening fiction and documentaries illuminating these events.
Tiakola releases his second album "WpointM," paying tribute to his African roots with a mix of rap, R&B, rumba, afrobeats, and coupé-décalé. The album reflects his journey between La Courneuve and Congo, combining success with a look back at his history.
At 29, Innoss’B from Goma celebrates fifteen years in music. Winner of Vodacom Superstar at 13, he now has over 400 million streams and nearly 700 million YouTube views, becoming a major African star.
Yeşim Ustaoğlu's feature film 'Artakalan' is officially selected for the 74th San Sebastián International Film Festival, blending an inner and geographic journey to poetically explore Turkey.
A Gallo-Roman wall dating back to ancient times was discovered this summer beneath a hospital on Île de la Cité, Paris. This major find may settle the debate over the city's first settlement near Notre-Dame, announces the French Ministry of Culture.
A stone and wood wall uncovered in central Paris could be a rampart constructed by the Parisii tribe more than 2,000 years ago, according to the city's mayor.
A new generation of French Catholic influencers on TikTok and Instagram is contributing to a conservative religious revival in France, where baptisms of teenagers and adults are increasing.
In Primetime, Robert Pattinson portrays Chris Hansen in an A24 film directed by Lance Oppenheim. Following its Venice debut, this release questions the boundary between information, justice, and spectacle.
From September 25 to 28, Pope Leo XIV travels to France for a journey connecting Paris, UNESCO, Notre-Dame, Lourdes, and Metz.
On September 24, 2026, NASA unveiled an exceptional image taken at Morocco's Oukaïmeden Observatory, revealing five supernova remnants in the Auriga constellation, aged thousands of years.
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