Bakri enraged the Israeli establishment and Jewish public with ‘Jenin, Jenin,’ about the April 2002 clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in which 52 Palestinians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed. The film was banned in Israel after a few screenings, but the supreme court later overturned the ban
As the first prominent award show to go forward during the pandemic, the Gotham Awards took a trial-and-error approach to mounting a show that couldn’t include the usual trappings of the annual independent film awards. The Gothams nevertheless went ahead with a ceremony, albeit without an in-person audience and with only a handful of presenters
Phyllida Lloyd’s story may sound like a feel-good, made-for-the-movies tale, and ‘Herself’ does indeed conjure an air of fable, but this earthy and sober film refuses to be carried aloft by sentiment. Instead it navigates a difficult and painful path toward self-preservation and renewal
After Fogel’s previous film won the Academy Award for best documentary, ‘The Dissident’ was one of the most anticipated of the 2020 Sundance festival. It was then ignored by the streaming services, not because it wasn’t good (it has a “97 percent fresh” critics rating Rotten Tomatoes) or important but because it openly challenges the regime’s crackdown on free speech
Turkey’s 83 million inhabitants include Europeans and Asians, Turkish nationalists and ethnic Kurds, multilingual cosmopolitans and provincial farmers,...
Jackson, who picked up Academy Awards for 1971’s ‘Women In Love’ and 1974’s ‘A Touch of Class,’ swapped film and TV for politics in 1992 when she became a...
Nearly two years after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is taking steps to rejoin the international community from which it was long shunned....
Among the groundbreaking batch of high-profile same-sex storylines appearing in prominent Christmas movies this year is Kristen Stewart’s ‘Happiest Season,’...
Egypt on Sunday unveiled ancient treasures found at the Saqqara archaeological site near Cairo, including sarcophagi over 3,000 years old, a discovery that...
From 1938 the Nazis had engaged Hildebrand – who was himself of Jewish heritage – to deal in items taken from Jewish owners or confiscated as ‘degenerate’
One of the leading international festivals of contemporary opera and theater has shifted format for its ninth edition because of the coronavirus pandemic
Since COVID-19 descended, several awards show were postponed and later revamped due to COVID-19 restrictions. The BET Awards was the first major awards show...
John le Carré’s ostensibly ordinary upbringing was an illusion. His father, Ronnie Cornwell, was a con man who was an associate of gangsters and spent time in...
This year, amidst the COVID-19 crisis, the Museum of Modern Art’s annual film benefit also benefits Artist Relief, an emergency initiative supporting artists
The premise of the series is a celebration of why Earth is such the ideal environment for so many different species to live and co-exist. Shot in 31...
In the midst of multiple crises, it was of all things the final few minutes of a television series’ season finale that managed to bring countless adults...
Usually Europe’s first major cinema showcase of the year, the annual Berlinale will now take place as a strictly digital event for industry players in March....
As always, Sundance is a festival of discovery, spotlighting new and emerging voices in film. Over half of the feature films this year are from first-time...
Presented by Metropolis Cinema in collaboration with Beirut DC, the belated Beirut premiere of Sarah Kaskas' feature-length doc was the opening screening of...
‘The life of piglets is obvious. They become sausages,’ said director Victor Kossakovsky, ‘but Gunda, she became so famous ... so many people stopped eating...
Days after Warner Bros. announced that all its 2021 films would be available on HBO Max on their day of their theatrical release, Nolan told the AP, ‘It’s not...
‘My team and I devoted more than three years of our lives to make it a unique big screen experience,’ said Villeneuve. ‘Our movie’s image and sound were...
Over the next few years, Disney is planning to premiere directly on Disney+ not just an armada of ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel series but 15 live-action, Pixar and...
Clooney has said making ‘The Midnight Sky’ was like shooting ‘The Revenant’ and then shooting ‘Gravity.’ Coincidentally, both those films won a bunch of Oscars
Blockbusters are not going away. Anybody who thinks the studios have somehow lost faith in people going to the movies, no. When you make a movie that blows up...
Spike Lee may have made the best film of the year in his short film ‘New York, New York,’ a tribute to an undefeatable pandemic-stricken city, but, aside from...
A gifted filmmaker, rich in both texture and ideas, Julia Hart has already skipped around in genre, often reorienting it in the process. Her 2019 sci-fi film...
None of Warner’s in-house filmmakers have spoken out on the record until Nolan, who has worked with Warner Bros. on every film since 2002’s ‘Insomnia’ in a...
Set during Lebanon’s 2006 war, Ahmad Ghossein’s debut feature is oddly resonant outside COVID-era Beirut
Submissions were received from 380 Lebanon-based individuals of seven nationalities from around the region. Some 58 percent of them were aged 25-35 years, 97...
‘Even under these impossible circumstances,’ festival director Tabitha Jackson said, ‘artists are still finding paths to make bold and vital work in whatever...
Lawrence Michael Levine’s ‘Black Bear’ is a meta-thriller about moviemaking, creativity and ego is the kind of indie film that can so easily get lost just...
For some, early COVID-19 films – ‘Totally Under Control,’ Alex Gibney’s two-part indictment of the US response to the virus or ‘Coronation,’ Ai Weiwei’s...
Founder Alice Mogabgab and BAFF's foreign sponsors will bring 19 diverting docs, and a bio pic, for seven evenings of managed, nonvirtual, projections.
High-profile Hollywood films about lesbian couples are more often than not dramatic, set in the past and sad, so it is instantly refreshing that ‘Happiest...