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Teachers as heroes has long been a popular subject for movies. Think Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love, Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, Jack Black in The School of Rock, Hilary Swank in Freedom Writers, Denzel Washington in The Great Debaters, Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver, Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me, and J.

More than “Tutti Frutti. ” More than flamboyance.

Little did attendees of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival realize that events that were happening at the exact same time down in Orange County, California, would be recreated later for the audiences of the 2023 edition. In January of 2016, Long Hoang Ma, a 74-year-old Vietnamese cab driver, reluctantly picked up a late-night call for passengers.

A young man is interrogated by the father of his lover, who has disappeared without a trace during the couple’s trip to a secluded island. This is the premise of Danish director Martin Skovbjerg’s feature film Copenhagen Does Not Exist.

The poster has a glamorous blonde woman smiling over her bare shoulder, and the caption reads: “It’s for tonight, darling, in Istanbul.

The Tromsø Film Festival, in northern Norway, ran from January 16th to the 21st. It celebrated its 33rd edition and exhibited approximately 160 films, with 90 of them showing in the main program.

The rise of social media has created the opportunity for people to connect with those who might have suffered trauma similar to their own.   In parallel, it has also helped provide a vocally receptive audience to a trend in the nonfiction film space — a broader reexamination of the past treatment, both by the media and society at large, of female public figures, especially actresses, singers, and other celebrities.

Everything about Bethann Hardison is distinctly unique: her upbringing, her look, her wide-ranging career from model to agent to activist, and even how she brought Invisible Beauty, the film about herself, to fruition. It is not that common that the subject of a documentary also serves as its co-director (along with Frédéric Tcheng who previously made Halston and Dior and I).

The Aussie invasion of Hollywood started slowly at first, with a handful of trailblazers in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, including Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, and Grease icon, Olivia Newton-John. But on January 28, 2023, Australian and American VIPs will come together in L.

Icelandic writer-director and actor Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir presented her feature film debut, Band (through Compass Films), at the Tromsø Film Festival, as part of the Films from the North series, presenting films from across the Arctic areas. A hybrid documentary/mockumentary, Band is a portrayal of an all-female band, comprised of three women just shy of turning 40, told through the lens of Örnólfsdóttir, and based on the real experiences of her band, The Post Performance Blues Band.