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What is lifelike at a maternity ward from the midwives’ perspective? Everyone who has given birth might think they know, but do they really or do they just get a glimpse into an intense and demanding world where life comes to light and those who help make it happen are more or less like soldiers at war? That is at least the comparison Lone Scherfig made in her mind when she created and wrote The Shift, an eight-episode TV series, which is her first Danish-language project in 14 years. The Oscar-nominated Scherfig, who is best known for her English-speaking projects such as An Education, Their Finest, One Day and her Danish-language film Italian for Beginners from 2000, also co-directed the show and felt that the role as showrunner came quite natural to her.

The history of cinema is marked by the rocky path that women had to hurdle to work in a profession beset, from its origins, by the infamous gender gap. The inclusion of women in opportunities beyond their appearances on the big screen has been late and slow in every aspect of the movie industry.

Having been an actress all her life, Icelandic Anita Briem was becoming desperate. There were no stories out there about her situation.

As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8, we continue to put a spotlight on women breaking barriers and blazing trails. After celebrating Pose star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez becoming the first transgender actress to win a Golden Globe this year, we recently caught up with Filipino-American Trans actress-writer-producer Rain Valdez on our podcast series, Golden Globes Around the World.

The West, Europe, and Italy are trembling. As a result, fewer Italians went to the movies last week.

Alice Guy, the very first woman filmmaker in the history of cinema, was born in Paris on July 1, 1873, to a Chilean father and a French mother. After the death of her father in 1891, she trained as a typist and stenographer to help support her widowed mother and four siblings.

It is said that ‘an apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. ’ In the case of Sherry Lansing, one of the most successful executives in Hollywood history, that tree was her mother, Margot Heimann, who had escaped Nazi Germany at age 17 and settled in the Chicago area.

During the lead-up to the revelatory song “I’m the Greatest Star,” in the 1968 film Funny Girl, Fanny Brice tries to explain her uniqueness. “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.

Not since the race film genre of movies that started around 1915 and continued till the 1950s was there another movement in cinema history where Black filmmakers made films with all-Black casts and crews primarily for Black audiences till the blaxploitation era of the early 1970s. The similarities in both movements abound.

In 2014, Sergei Loznitsa, one of Ukraine's most prominent filmmakers, directed Maidan, a powerful documentary focusing on the Euromaidan movement of 2013 and 2014 in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. As is well known, the Euromaidan movement has advocated political freedom, civil and human rights, and closer ties with the West (with or without affiliation with NATO).