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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.

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.