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Everybody Loves Jeanne is the feature film directorial debut of French cinematographer and illustrator Céline Devaux. This dramedy premiered in Semaine de la Critique – a special section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival dedicated for directors’ first or second features.

Freda is the Creole-language debut feature film by actress, singer and filmmaker Gessica Geneus. She also wrote the script to the film, which portrays Freda (Néhémie Bastien), a young woman who struggles to find hope in a country full of despair, violence and turbulence.

How strict do you have to be as a parent? What is considered spoiling a child? And how do you define love?These are the questions posed in the Chilean film The Punishment (El Castigo) directed by Matias Bize. When Ana and Mateo drive through a forest, the tension is palpable.

Disney always knew a good fairy tale when they saw one. Since 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the company has brought to cinematic life such worldwide literary fables as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.

After a very successful start of the collaboration between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the World Bank this past July, where the panelists included Sharon Stone, Madeline Di Nonno and Christopher Bailey, among others, we are proud to announce that the second part of what will become a series is taking place today, December 8. The topic of today’s discussion is “Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls Through Edutainment.

“Hollywood’s Party of the Year®” returns to celebrate a milestone anniversary with iconic stars from TV and film. One of the most influential voices in comedy, Jerrod Carmichael is set to host the 80th Annual Golden Globe® Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association® (HFPA), dick clark productions, and NBC announced today.

Ajooma marks writer-director He Suming’s debut feature film about a widowed Singaporean woman in her 50s, Lim Beehwa (Hong Hui Fang). She goes by the name Auntie, a common moniker for many married or middle-aged women in Singapore.

Claudia Sainte-Luce came to international attention at the 2013 Locarno and Toronto Film Festivals with her comedy-drama The Amazing Catfish which she wrote and directed. The film follows the life of a young woman named Claudia (Ximena Ayala) who becomes caretaker for Martha (Lisa Owen), an older matriarch dying of AIDS.

Pamfir is Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s debut feature film. It tells the story of how corruption affects a family in a small Ukrainian village close to the border of Romania.

On January 20, 1990, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, quickly becoming a perennial Italian darling for international audiences, inspiring several movies, in Hollywood and abroad. A coming-of-age story marked by a passion for moving images as well as the craft and its craftsmen, it served to remind audiences of the magic of movie theaters, as well as celebrate filmmaking as an art, an escape, a therapy.