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Freda (Nehemie Bastien) is the eldest daughter of Jeannette (Fabiola Remy), a single mother who owns a little grocery store in Port-au-Prince. She is expected to carry the heavy load of the day-to-day tasks, while her sister Esther (Djanaina Francois) wishes to get married to a wealthy man, and her brother Moïse (Cantave Kervern) wants to emigrate in search of a better fortune.

Kevan Hall, haute couturier to the stars and former creative director of Halston, enters his salon – a haven of lush fabrics, classic cuts, and luxurious designer pieces above the bustle of Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles – with an elegant stride. Tall, with the wiry physique of the very fit, the designer is being honored at the 53rd NAACP’s Image Awards 2022, for a creation of another kind: the ‘Black Design Collective’, which champions black designers, giving them a spotlight and amplifying their talent and expertise.

  The winners of the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival were announced at the Сlosing Gala Awards Ceremony last night. A total of 256 features, shorts and documentary films were screened during this year's festival which ran from January 10th to February 16th.

When John Singleton died on April 28, 2019, at the age of 51 following a stroke, one of the numerous tributes to him was by Barack Obama who tweeted, “His seminal work, Boyz n the Hood, remains one of the most searing, loving portrayals of the challenges facing inner-city youth. He opened doors for filmmakers of color to tell powerful stories that have been too often ignored.

In the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, we see how a con man, who goes by the name Simon Leviev, uses the dating app Tinder to trick women into believing that he is the son of the ultra-wealthy diamond tycoon Lev Leviev. It is believed that Simon Leviev has stolen an estimated 10 million dollars over the years from numerous women all over the world.

Valentine’s Day weekend in the Russian box office has shown the best results since the start of 2022 while Uncharted is the highest-grossing release of the weekend. Released in Russia a week earlier than its US release date in 1,522 cinema theaters, Uncharted tops the Russian box office with 330 mln Russian Ruble ($4.

“When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window,” said director Dorothy Arzner in a 1933 article in Silver Screen magazine entitled “Get Me Dorothy Arzner”. Whatever tribulations she went through to build a career in Hollywood that started in silent films, in an industry dominated by men, Arzner, almost forgotten now, has more major studio directorial credits than any other woman to this day.

Larry Peerce directed One Potato, Two Potato (1964), a pioneering indie drama about interracial marriage and its devastating effects on all concerned, especially the young white daughter caught up in a messy situation. The film preceded by three years the more famous Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Stanley Kramer’s Golden Globe nominee (and Oscar winner) starred Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton.

The silent film era, which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s, was run by white men. Any Black performers seen in the films were portrayed through the white perspective and confirmed stereotypes that abounded at the time.

After two weeks with the same movies at the top of the Italian box office, the week from 07/02 to 13/02 saw a clear change in the ranking. Last week we wrote about the great expectations for the release of two movies: Death on the Nile by Kenneth Branagh and the first movie by the singer-songwriter Fabrizio Moro, Ice.