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In October 2018, actress Selma Blair revealed that she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).  In Introducing, Selma Blair, a raw, unpolished, if ultra-honest documentary, Rachel Fleit, making her feature directorial debut, provides an inmate look at Blair's new life chapter of living with Multiple Sclerosis.

Zátopek is a film based on Alice Nelli’s screenplay, which tells the story of Emil Zátopek, the Czechoslovakian long-distance runner nicknamed the “Czech Locomotive,” winner of three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. It is directed by David Ondříček and stars Václav Neužil.

A good film festival is defined by its programming: diversity and inclusion play as much a role as does variety in all genres of filmmaking. The New Orleans fest distinguishes itself by also paying attention not only to local filmmakers but to local stories: topics that resonate with or were born from the city, the state, or the region.

Right now he's singing and dancing in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick…tick… BOOM!, an adaptation of writer and composer Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical play. Back in September of 2010, over 11 years ago, we met Andrew Russell Garfield for the first time.

The big red dog tried to chomp the immortal gods. But in the end, the Eternals prevailed over Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Will Smith offered some insight on Muhammad Ali – having spent time with the boxing champion during the shooting of Ali, directed by Michael Mann – when he spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press on the set in Miami in 2001, then in Los Angeles a few weeks before the film’s release. “Three or four days out of the month, Ali will come and hang out on the set, and he seems to be very happy up to this point.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) received the Angel Benefactor Award from the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) in the festival’s closing night gala held November 11, 2021 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. HFPA President Helen Hoehne and member Lena Basse, who served as the president of the jury for the short film category at the AWFF, accepted the award on behalf of the Association.

After directing and producing documentaries for the German TV channel ZDF on the refugee casualties of Middle Eastern wars that were dismissed as simply statistics, or producing images in news bulletins, Egyptian journalist Ali El Arabi decided to quit his job and live with the Syrian refugees in the Za’atari camp in order to get to know them closely and understand their needs. "I felt guilty, so I wanted to shed light on their plight from their point of view and not from an external point of view,” El Arabi said at the last El Gouna Film Festival.

Starting as a refugee and rising all the way to award-winning film star and now into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Zain Al Rafeea has done a lot at 17 years old. With only two acting roles under his belt, Zain has managed to catapult himself and his family into a new life.

Spin Time, Sabina Guzzanti's new documentary about the have-nots in our society and their ongoing struggle for a roof over their head, is just the latest example of how the international film community is starting to deal with these issues, both in fiction and in non-fiction. It is not insignificant that the most talked about TV series of the moment is the Korean Squid Game, an unsettling depiction of what desperation and poverty can force a person to do in a capitalistic and unequal society; and the fact that the Oscar winners for Best Film of the last two years have been 2019s Parasite, a tragicomedy hinging on the disparity of income and the quality of life in a big city, and last year’s Nomadland, the story of a woman abandoning the remains of a life lived in the hamster's wheel of conventional prosperity and embracing a nomadic existence off the grid.