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An easygoing and consistently engaging if somewhat staidly told documentary biopic, Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power benefits from both the considerable charisma and ongoing relevance of its subject, and the important lessons to be drawn from her fight for positive societal change. With interviewees including Alice Walker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cory Booker, Van Jones, Danny Glover, and the late John Lewis, among others, director Abby Ginzberg’s movie, receiving a nationwide theatrical release alongside digital distribution on iTunes, Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video, shines a light on the 12-term Congresswoman, and how her personal experiences connect to her public service.

It was 1946, right after World War II, when Margarita Carmen Cansino attended the just created Karlovy Vary Film Festival. It took place in a spa city in what was then Czechoslovakia, that had been saved from the bombs and remained as beautiful as when rich families visited it by the thousands at the end of the 19th century to spend their vacations.

The Iranian filmmaker Narges Abyar, who made such films as When the Moon was Full (2019), Breath (2016), and Track 143 (2014) has no doubt that the world needs more talented female filmmakers. Actually, there is a ‘dire need’ for them, she finds.

Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabry says that acting was her destiny. She tells HFPA journalist Husam Asi that she never sought cinema but it found her.

Around the globe, football is far and away the world’s most dominant and popular sport. In the United States, though, it’s known as soccer, and American football (that oddly named game which actually involves very little kicking) is the cultural king.

The history of Syrian cinema is inextricably linked to its political history beginning in 1920 when the French took colonial control, forcing King Faisal to leave the country. Under their rule, many theatres were built in Damascus, but they screened primarily French films.

After its release was delayed four times due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ryan Reynolds’ Free Guy finally got shown in the movie theaters and zoomed to the top of the box office chart with $28. 4 million.

Hugh Jackman spoke about acting when he met with journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press for X-Men (2000), where he played the mutant Wolverine. “I grew up in a pretty big family, and I felt different all the time from my brothers and sisters, especially from about eleven to fourteen, but probably the most different I felt was when I started acting.

While advances in treatment have bolstered the cumulative cure rate, incidences of childhood cancer have spiked roughly 30 percent since the 1970s, and it seems not unreasonable to assume some causal link between this statistical climb and a fairly sustained pattern of environmental deregulation and degradation. Phosfate, an investigative documentary newly available on streaming, uses Florida as a compelling case study for this premise, resulting in an agitative work that sounds like a clarion call for greater citizen involvement in protecting water and natural resources.

Egypt is among the oldest producers of films in the world. Egyptian cinema was born in 1896 when the Lumière Brothers’ screened a short film in Alexandria, only a year after its premiere in France.