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The Tribeca Film Festival, celebrating its 20th year since it was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 in the wake of 9/11, is again featuring LGBTQ+ themed features, documentaries, and shorts this year. Tribeca is one of the country’s top film festivals that uplifts marginalized voices.

One of the highlights at the Cannes Film Festival this year was the Masterclass conducted on May 26 with Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, whose career spans nearly three decades. Born in Copenhagen in 1965, he made his acting debut in Nicholas Winding Refn's 1996 Pusher.

Gazal Dhaliwal is an Indian screenwriter who has written for some widely appreciated Hindi films and series over the past five years, including Lipstick Under My Burkha, Qarib Qarib Single, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga – India’s first mainstream film about a gay woman – and a popular Netflix India series Mismatched. Dhaliwal is also a public speaker and LGBTQ+ activist, who has spoken openly about being a transgender woman in several talks and in the media – most famously in an episode of the Indian superstar Aamir Khan-led talk show ‘Satyamev Jayate.

Actors Vin Diesel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Deborah Ann Woll, and Vince Vaugh, producers David Benioff and D. B.

In France, Jurassic World: Dominion is the new number 1 at the box office. The movie directed by Colin Trevorrow with Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Laura Dern, takes place four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar when dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world.

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Frances “Franco” Stevens is the founder of the iconic lesbian Curve Magazine, which was launched in 1991 as Deneuve. As a broke young woman, who had been rejected by her family, when she came out as a lesbian and had briefly been homeless, Stevens did not take no for an answer when investors did not believe in her vision.

After one year of COVID delay, the Animation Film Festival Annecy honors 100+1 years of Swiss Animation with 14 special programs. They include spotlights curated by the Swiss Animation Festival’s Fantoche and Animatou, a selection by Trickfilmgruppe Schweiz (the Association of Professional Animators), restorations by Cinémathèque Suisse, retrospectives for Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Claude Barras (Ma Vie de Courgette/My Life as a Zucchini), Isabelle Favez (Giuseppe, in competition ) and Ani-Doc filmmaker Marcel Barelli (Vigia).

Just like last week, at the top of the Italian box office chart are the two biggest blockbusters currently in theaters, Jurassic World: Dominion and Top Gun: Maverick, both sequels and both linked to two cult franchises from the 1990s and 1980s. In its second weekend in Italian theaters, the sixth installment of the dinosaur saga has collected €2.

Italian French actress-director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi takes us back to the 80s in her fifth offering, Forever Young, as she shines a light on the legendary director Patrice Chéreau, who founded the acting school Theatre Nanterre-Amandiers located just outside of Paris. Through Tedeschi’s lens, we watch Chéreau’s unorthodox attempts at eliciting various emotions from his students.