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The director and screenwriter of the highly acclaimed Kazakh drama Goliath, Adilkhan Yerzhanov, has been a two-time participant in the Cannes Film Festival's Official Program (The Owners, 2014, Official Selection, and The Gentle Indifference of the World, 2018, Un Certain Regard). He won an Asia Pacific Screen award in 2019 for Achievement in Directing for A Dark, Dark Man.

The Silence of the Lambs was a groundbreaking film in many ways. Initially released (ironically) on Valentine’s Day in 1991, the film defied both commercial and critical expectations during the month widely considered, at the time, Hollywood’s “dumping ground.

Perth-born writer-director Aron Attiwell, 22, has taken on the formidable task of educating young Australians about the Holocaust through his film Fading Numbers. As the number of Holocaust survivors is diminishing, Attiwell understands the importance of younger generations’ hearing firsthand from those who experienced the horrors of genocide about both the experience itself and the lessons that can be learned from it.

The story centers on a 25-year-old woman, Freddie (Park Ji-min), who was born in South Korea but speaks no Korean. She is looking for her birth parents after being adopted more than 20 years ago.

Actor-filmmaker Radhakrishnan Parthiban’s latest movie, Shadow of the Night, is the portrait of one man and his dark, disturbing life, in which Fate is always turning the tables on him. A hapless man named Nandu, played by director Parthipan, is a person who continually encounters failure and disappointment.

A dark coming-of-age thriller, The Box is the latest offering from Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas, and stars Hatzin Navarrete, who marks his acting debut. Navarrete plays Hatzin, a teenager from Mexico City who travels to a remote desert town north of Mexico to search for his father’s remains, which he believes to be buried in a hidden mass grave.

In 1993, an actor got an award for an invisible role. If that sounds highly unusual, it isn’t, considering who the actor was: the incomparable Robin Williams.

When Hurricane Katrina left more than 250,000 pets stranded, the infrastructure was set up of a nationwide dog rescue effort. Since then, millions of Southern rescue dogs have been transported to new homes, thanks to the tireless efforts of a grassroots network of dog rescuers.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is still doing strong, staying number 1 at the French box office. Directed by Ryan Coogler with Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira, the movie is about the people of Wakanda fighting to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

As the nominations for the 80th Golden Globe Awards will be announced this coming Monday, here is what has been going on behind the scenes while we prepare for the return of the season’s most entertaining award show. Four new categories, one new host and 103 new voters from across the world: the combined voting body (members and international voters) represents 62 countries including Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Ukraine, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Romania, Ghana, Singapore, Georgia and the Dominican Republic.