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Holy Spider is a fictional story inspired by the real-life story of the Iranian construction worker Saeed Hanaei (Mehdi Bajestani), who was arrested in 2001 for killing 16 prostitutes in Mashad, Iran. It follows investigative journalist Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), who travels to the holy city of Mashad with the intention of trying to help solve the long-running case when the police fail to catch the serial killer.

A Film About Couples is a feature film about two filmmakers who are asked to make a documentary about couples. Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada are a couple in their thirties and are parents to a little daughter, Lia.

The Kashmir Files storyline centers on the 1990s exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Indian-administered Kashmir. The director of The Kashmir Files, Vivek Agnihotri, told us about what made him passionate about the film.

It happened only once: the celebration (in addition to the annual 1981 Golden Globe Awards) of one personality outside a Golden Globes gala. But what a personality it was — the actor, radio host, screenwriter, voiceover artist, producer, theater impresario, and film director Orson Welles.

In the 1920s, the average annual salary of an American family was $3,269. 40.

It should come as no surprise that filmmakers have tried for years to capture the essence of soccer (football in Great Britain and elsewhere, in a diversity of languages): it's the world's most popular sport,  watched by billions of people. Imagine it on celluloid (or digital).

James Cameron’s Pandoran creatures couldn’t come soon enough, box office analysts expressed in their comments as the Thanksgiving weekend figures trickled in. While Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Black Adam continue to be bright spots, the recent Thanksgiving holiday numbers were considered among the worst.

As expected, Avatar: The Way of Water will be released in China and now has an official date – December 16, showing in regular and IMAX format. (It is the international release date for all territories.

Where the Wind Blows is a crime thriller covering many decades of police corruption on the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon/New Territories at a time when both areas were still under British colonial rule. The original title was going to be Theory of Ambitions, given that the film tells the story of two policemen who want to leave their thankless low-class existence behind by cooperating, and later dominating, the local triads (Chinese gangs, comparable to the Yakuza in Japan).

What happens when the person who is supposed to help you overcome your vulnerability exploits that vulnerability instead? That is the question posed by the action thriller Indemnity set in South Africa, that country’s contender for best Non-English Language Film. Told mostly in Afrikaans, with some English, the film features Africa Movie Academy Award winner Jarrid Geduld (10,000 BC and Ellen: Die Storie van Ellen Pakkies) as Theo, a former firefighter who is suffering from PTSD after a rescue goes wrong.