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It's not every day that a Latin American film wins prizes at a top-level festival. Tengo sueños eléctricos (I Have Electric Dreams), the feature debut by Costa Rican Valentina Maurel won three of the main awards at the Locarno Festival in Switzerland: best actress for its protagonist, the adolescent Daniela Marín Navarro, best actor for the thespian who plays her father, Reinaldo Amien, and best director for Maurel.

Beast was no match for Dragon Ball. In an unusual development, an anime film, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero topped the domestic box office and beat Idris Elba’s Beast.

Despicable yet adorable, the Minions came to rescue Italy's box office. After sluggish weeks, audiences flocked back to theaters for the animated new entry Minions 2 - The Rise of Gru.

The longer the summer the more boring the charts. Or so it seems.

Tilda Swinton stars with Idris Elba in Three Thousand Years of Longing, directed by George Miller, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and is opening in theaters on August 26. The three-time Golden Globe nominee spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2005 about playing the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, from the 1950 novel by C.

China Daily reported the remarks of a Chinese official who was asked whether the tension between China and the US is having an impact on the import of Hollywood movies. Sun Yeli, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China responded at a news conference in Beijing, “We are ready to introduce foreign films from any country as long as it can produce good films that cater to the needs and interests of Chinese audiences.

The world’s longest film festival – clocking up 25 consecutive days over 26 venues – announced two new MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) awards at the Closing Night Gala on August 20. The AUD$140,000 “Bright Horizons Award” – supported by the state’s film commission, VicScreen – was given to Neptune Frost, from Rwandan filmmakers Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams and the AUD$70,000  “Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award” was won by Jub Clerc, indigenous writer and director of the coming-of-age drama, Sweet As.

“I was blown away at how thoughtful this museum, still even under construction, was approaching its content and how committed it was and it still is to expanding public understanding of film history,” says Jacqueline Stewart, Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, in a recent press preview of its exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971. Five years ago, she had been invited to participate in the Regeneration Advisory Committee of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

When women tell stories about women, time makes no difference. Women creators may situate their heroines in the present, past or future.

One Piece Film – Red is the new number 1 in France. Directed by Goro Taniguchi with Stephane Excoffier, Mayumi Tanaka, and Marie Braam, this animated movie is about Luffy and his crew  - they are about to attend an eagerly awaited music festival in which the daughter of the legendary pirate Shanks Le Roux will reveal her exceptional voice power, capable of changing the world.