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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.

Hanging Gardens is Iraqi filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji's first feature film. It follows twelve-year-old As’ad (Hussain Muhammad Jalil), who is trying to make ends meet in post-war Baghdad in Iraq.

Smile, a horror film that was originally headed for a streaming-only release, grinned its way to the bank as it topped the domestic box office and earned way more than predicted. In his feature directing debut, Parker Finn found a gold mine in his 2020 short, Laura Hasn’t Slept, and adapted it into a sleeper hit for Paramount, Smile.

Three’s the charm for Ticket to Paradise. No exciting new debut stood a chance in the top ten.

Eugene Hernandez joined Film at Lincoln Center in 2010 and is its current Senior Vice President. He has overseen the New York Film Festival (NYFF) for the past three years, and this will be his last as in early September he was named director of the Sundance Film Festival.

Kevin Kline, a five times Golden Globe nominee is costarring with Sigourney Weaver in The Good House. In 1987 Kline spoke about apartheid in South Africa, during an exclusive interview with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about the movie Cry Freedom directed by Richard Attenborough, costarring Denzel Washington.

Gizmodo is reporting that Return to Dust, directed by Li Ruijun, a film that was on the top ten charts for a few weeks grossing over $7 million, and which screened at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, was pulled from streaming services in China. While social media users have commented on the disappearance of the film on some platforms, Weibo has banned users from making any mention of the deletion.

Don’t let the title fool you. This rom-com starring Lily James and Shazad Latif is not a reference to the Tina Turner classic hit, nor her 1993 biopic of the same name, which garnered a Golden Globe win for Angela Bassett.

At the Golden Globes, everyone is welcome. In its almost 80 years of history, many Hispanic talents have been honored for their work, from the brightest to the almost unknown until that moment.

Award-winning Cinematographer, Luc Montpellier, talks about his latest work, the highly acclaimed film, Women Talking, which marks his third collaboration with director Sarah Polley and stars Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw.   Montpellier hails from Canada, and his impressive litany of work has been seen over the last twenty years and includes such movies as Take This Waltz, Away From Her, Ruba Nadda’s Sabah, and Cairo Time.