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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is still 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.

At its core, The Eight Mountains is a story about friendship. But, when taking in the beauty of the vast landscape it saturates itself in, it becomes a celebration of nature in all its majesty.

Acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has reached a turning point in international co-production after 2018’s Shoplifters received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2019, he cast the iconic French actresses Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, and prominent American actor Ethan Hawke to film Truth from an original screenplay.

The Kings of the World is Colombian director Laura Mora’s second feature film and a film about having or not having a safe place in the world. It takes place in the bustling city of Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia, and follows the 19 year-old Ra (Carlos Andres Castaneda), who lives and hustles in the streets.

“Acting is not enough, really. What interested me was filmmaking.

Snow and bears are not immediately associated with Turkey. Maybe that’s the reason why writer-director-producer Selcen Ergun takes her time in introducing us to this seeming abnormality: in one long take we follow a car slithering through an expansive and uninviting winter scape, a tiny red dot on a white canvas.

The quickest way to send beachgoers bolting from the beach is to announce the arrival of a shark. But leave it to Steven Spielberg to discover the fastest way to entice filmgoers to flock to cinemas is to showcase that same said predator.

Late on the evening of November 19th, 2013, Fabienne Kabou, a Senegalese emigrant, left her 15-month-old daughter to drown at high tide on a northern France beach. It was a horrific act that made headlines, the mother admitted to it but failed to explain why she did it.

No Bears is the latest movie from celebrated Iranian director and democracy campaigner Jafar Panahi, who has also directed This Is Not a Film and Taxi Tehran. This nuanced piece of film making is set in a rural village, where the residents have had a fear of bears inculcated in them, as a way of controlling their freedom of movement.

May your table be plentiful and your day be joyful with family and friends - just like Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman back in one starry Golden Globes night in the 1950s.