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On November 4, the Bolivian film Utama, directed by Alejandro Loayza, will be released commercially in New York at the famed Film Forum theater. Later, it will also open in Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities.

Avatar is still going strong and remains number 1.  The Avatar re-release, directed by James Cameron with Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, and Sigourney Weaver, shows the franchise's overseas strength.

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have long established themselves as an appealing comedy duo, as evidenced by their seven-year run in the titular roles in the hit series Grace and Frankie. Theirs is an onscreen relationship which dates to 1980, with their starring roles in the three-time Golden Globe nominated movie, 9 to 5.

Dinara Drukarova is a well-known Russian actress with a long list of films on her CV such as Paris, je t’aime (2006) Amour (2012) and Compartment Number 6 (2021). Now, she has made her debut as a director with the film Woman at Sea in which she also plays the leading character, Lili.

In the 1930s, the building now known as Piazza del Sol, at 8439 Sunset Boulevard, was called the Hacienda Arms Apartments. Its tenants included Jeanette MacDonald, Marie Dressler, and Loretta Young.

"We are the ones between dos mundos, time suspended on the shelves, where home is always somewhere else. " – José Eduardo Aguilar “El Deportee” The Guadalajara Film Festival in Los Angeles – an HFPA grantee – is intent on focusing on issues that especially beset the Latinx population.

World Teachers’ Day has been celebrated annually since 1994, and October 5 is the day when the entire globe can say thank you to teachers educating us since our early days of preschool. According to UNESCO, the theme for World Teachers' Day 2022 is “The transformation of education begins with teachers.

English cinematographer Polly Morgan is full of praise for Gina Blythewood-Prince, the director of her latest film, The Woman King. “The most incredible thing about working with Gina is that she brings people together in a way that I have never seen,” Morgan tells HFPA member Margaret Gardiner in the newest episode of the “Golden Globes Around the World” podcast series.

From the moment it had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Argentina, 1985, the new film by Santiago Mitre starring Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani, has been a crowd pleaser, regardless of where it has been screened. It was not a surprise that it won the Audience Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival, or that it has become an instant hit in its own country, where lines form regularly around the block to enter the cinemas, a rarity in these days of watching content on platforms at home.

A graffiti artist turned writer and filmmaker, Tarik Saleh made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, when he won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for his political thriller The Nile Hilton Incident. After directing episodes of Westworld and Ray Donovan, as well as an action thriller starring Chris Pine and Ben Foster (The Contractor), the son of a Swedish mother and an Egyptian father went back to writing and directing his own script Boy from Heaven, a spy thriller set inside the most prestigious religious university in Cairo.