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A dark coming-of-age thriller, The Box is the latest offering from Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas, and stars Hatzin Navarrete, who marks his acting debut. Navarrete plays Hatzin, a teenager from Mexico City who travels to a remote desert town north of Mexico to search for his father’s remains, which he believes to be buried in a hidden mass grave.

In 1993, an actor got an award for an invisible role. If that sounds highly unusual, it isn’t, considering who the actor was: the incomparable Robin Williams.

When Hurricane Katrina left more than 250,000 pets stranded, the infrastructure was set up of a nationwide dog rescue effort. Since then, millions of Southern rescue dogs have been transported to new homes, thanks to the tireless efforts of a grassroots network of dog rescuers.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is still doing strong, staying number 1 at the French box office. Directed by Ryan Coogler with Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira, the movie is about the people of Wakanda fighting to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

As the nominations for the 80th Golden Globe Awards will be announced this coming Monday, here is what has been going on behind the scenes while we prepare for the return of the season’s most entertaining award show. Four new categories, one new host and 103 new voters from across the world: the combined voting body (members and international voters) represents 62 countries including Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Ukraine, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Romania, Ghana, Singapore, Georgia and the Dominican Republic.

Everybody Loves Jeanne is the feature film directorial debut of French cinematographer and illustrator Céline Devaux. This dramedy premiered in Semaine de la Critique – a special section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival dedicated for directors’ first or second features.

Freda is the Creole-language debut feature film by actress, singer and filmmaker Gessica Geneus. She also wrote the script to the film, which portrays Freda (Néhémie Bastien), a young woman who struggles to find hope in a country full of despair, violence and turbulence.

How strict do you have to be as a parent? What is considered spoiling a child? And how do you define love?These are the questions posed in the Chilean film The Punishment (El Castigo) directed by Matias Bize. When Ana and Mateo drive through a forest, the tension is palpable.

Disney always knew a good fairy tale when they saw one. Since 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the company has brought to cinematic life such worldwide literary fables as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty.

After a very successful start of the collaboration between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and the World Bank this past July, where the panelists included Sharon Stone, Madeline Di Nonno and Christopher Bailey, among others, we are proud to announce that the second part of what will become a series is taking place today, December 8. The topic of today’s discussion is “Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls Through Edutainment.