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The historical path of Iranian cinema from the East India Company film studios in India where the very first Iranian films were made, to major European film festivals, has been long and winding and indicative of the social and cultural history of Iran. Talking about Iranian cinema at a press conference with the HFPA, director Asghar Farhadi rightly pointed out, “There’s a great deal of talent in that region.

Sarah-Kate Lynch is the creator of the eight-part thriller The Sounds. The story revolves around a grieving Canadian woman, whose husband has gone missing after a boating trip in New Zealand, where the couple intended to create a new life together.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced new eligibility guidelines for future Golden Globe Award shows and events, recognizing the diversity of excellence in the world by elevating foreign language films as candidates for its top award.   Every year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association examines its Golden Globes guidelines, considering new ways to celebrate connections of culture through film, television, and streaming platforms.

Filipino-American filmmaker Isabel Sandoval found her voice as an artist when she was making and editing Lingua Franca, a film about an undocumented Filipina trans woman who works as a caregiver for an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn. Sandoval tells HFPA journalist Janet Nepales that she was truly intuitive during the process.

A world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, where filmmaker CJ Hunt was feted with a Special Jury Mention for Best New Documentary Director, The Neutral Ground is a timely, remarkable, and engaging work of social inquisitiveness. The film is set for a limited theatrical run in advance of its national broadcast premiere across PBS stations, to be followed by a period of exclusive streaming.

Samoan-born, New Zealand-raised director Sima Urale has made a film about a woman whose heart has made her weak and blind to reality. The story of The Tender Trap is about a woman in her fifties who is tricked by a romance scam and falls in love with someone who is clearly not what he claims to be.

Published in 1987, ten years after his death at age seventy-one, “Fragments d’une Autobiographie” is Roberto Rossellini’s fascinating self-portrait and literary testament. A slim volume written in French, (“the first language I learned growing up before being taught Italian, or rather the Roman dialect.

F9: The Fast Saga vroomed to the domestic box office race finish line with far more impressive than expected numbers. Projected to open in the United States and Canada with $60 million, the Justin Lin-directed action-adventure ended up bringing in $70 million to further jump-start movie theater attendance.

Ben Kingsley won two Golden Globes in 1983, as New Star of the Year and as best actors in a drama for Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough. In 1982 he talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about playing the charismatic Indian leader.

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