It has all the ingredients of a typical historical epic: a glamorous queen, two warrior suitors and a tragic end. But as film critic Ben Croll explains, "The Last Queen" is a revolution for Algerian cinema. It's the country's first-ever costume drama, and directors Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri spent over a decade finding funding for their project celebrating a pre-colonial Algeria.

Photographer Boris Eldagsen speaks to Eve Jackson about starting a huge debate about the future of photography. The German artist won a prestigious award with an image he made using artificial intelligence. He entered the photograph into the creative open category at the Sony world photography awards and won. He is refusing the prize. Boris Eldagsen told Encore that he entered to make the world realise we need to think about what AI means for photography.

Described as soul music’s prodigal son, French singer-songwriter Alexis Evans has built a name for himself on the French music scene. After his first album “Girl Bait” in 2016, and the highly acclaimed “I’ve Come a Long Way” in 2019, he has now released his third album, “Yours Truly”. It features 12 catchy tracks that draw inspiration from ’60s and ’70s classic soul mixed with more contemporary sounds.

From "Beef", a new dark comedy being hailed by some as the best show of the year, to "Drops of God", a TV adapt of a hit Japanese manga about wine, plus the big French-language release "Salade Grecque", TV series critic Dheepthika Laurent shares her picks of the month with Eve Jackson. We also look at the lineup for the Canneseries TV festival in the south of France.

She has been called Africa's premiere diva, one of the most inspiring women in the world and the most powerful celebrity in Africa. With more than 16 million albums sold, multi Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter, global activist and educator Angélique Kidjo is now a laureate of the 2023 Polar Music Prize, regarded perhaps as the world's most prestigious music award. She sat down with FRANCE 24's Eve Jackson.

From the big family fantasy blockbuster "Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Amongst Thieves" to this week's big French-language release, "Les Âmes sœurs" or "Soul Mates" by André Téchiné, which stars Benjamin Voisin and Noémie Merlant as siblings with a secret in their past, critic Emma Jones speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news.

From the dynamic collaboration between iconic pop artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol to the vicious rivalry between French impressionist painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, "Encore!" takes you to Paris's top exhibitions of the moment.

Brandt Brauer Frick are a classically trained German trio who met through their love for clubbing. Over the last decade, their forward-thinking and genre-blending music has been performed in huge clubs such as Berlin's Berghain and alongside 100-piece orchestras. They popped by FRANCE 24 to talk about their new album "Multi Faith Prayer Room" which comes out on June 2, their new interactive installation as well as the potential of artificial intelligence.

As the "Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs" exhibition opens in Paris, we bring you a special show dedicated to the celebrated king who ruled the Egyptian empire over 3,000 years ago. The exhibition's centrepiece is the pharaoh's sarcophagus, which is on special loan to France. It's a gesture of recognition from Egyptian authorities after French scientists saved the mummy of Ramses II from a devastating fungus in 1976. Our Culture Editor Eve Jackson went to check out the once-in-a-lifetime show, while Lyana Saleh of FRANCE 24's Arabic channel spoke with renowned Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass about the fight to repatriate Egypt's ancient artefacts.

Few artists have left such an impact on their era. Pablo Picasso dominated the 20th century, bequeathing an iconic legacy to the history of painting, printing and sculpture. Fifty years after the Spanish artist's death, his influence still looms large. To mark that anniversary, FRANCE 24's Olivia Salazar-Winspear retraces his steps in Barcelona to discover how the giant of modern art got his start in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Catalonia. We also see how Picasso's early academic work gave way to formal experimentation at the Picasso Museum Barcelona, the largest collection of his work in the world.