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If – as the adage goes – we are what we eat, how could that impact the future of our planet? Australian filmmakers Kate Clere and Mick McIntyre have been looking for answers in their upcoming six-episode docuseries, Eating Plants. The couple traveled to six countries (United States of America, Germany, Israel, United Kingdom, China, and Australia) to explore the plant-based movement and find the best food products, restaurants, influencers, chefs, experts, and benefits.

As one of the first festivals focused on the television industry, PaleyFest has for 39 years been presenting cutting-edge programs and connecting TV fans with the stars of their favorite shows. This year, PaleyFest celebrated NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, and newcomer NCIS: Hawai’i with their cast and creatives at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Hany Abu-Assad received the Dutch Movies Matter award for Huda's Salon from the 14th edition of the Movies That Matter Festival. The international film festival homing in on human rights ran April 8-16, 2022, and screened its films in The Hague, online, and in cities across the Netherlands.

Italians flocked to the cinema over the Easter weekend. And Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third installment of the prequel to the Harry Potter saga, climbed in its first week of programming at the Box Office, reaching the top position and the €4 million mark.

Only a few years ago, Slava Vakarchuk was touring the world as the famous lead singer of Okean Elzy, the most decorated rock band in Ukraine. Now he’s touring his own country, but this time it’s in his role as a soldier staying behind to support Ukraine troops fighting the Russians.

At the Bari International Film Festival (BIFEST) in Bari, Italy, Hill of Vision, directed by Roberto Faenza, was the opening movie at the gala premiere. The story is based on the real-life of Mario Capecchi, a four-year-old abandoned boy who spent his childhood on the streets after his mother got arrested by fascists.

Kevin Costner has played various versions of the American everyman for over four decades. With prominent roles like Eliot Ness (The Untouchables), Crash Davis (Bull Durham), Ray Kinsella (Field of Dreams), Wyatt Earp (Wyatt Earp), Jonathan Kent (Man of Steel), and his Golden-Globe-winning role as Lieutenant Dunbar in Dances with Wolves, Costner has shown range, depth, and unwavering patriotism.

Although Javier Porta Fouz has been the artistic director of the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, popularly known as BAFICI) since 2016, his relationship with the festival began much earlier, having programmed 19 of the previous 23 editions. In a rare moment of calm in the days before the festival, which takes place this year from April 20 to May 1, Porta Fouz told us about his expectations regarding what will happen in the coming days and what should not be missed.

Easter Monday is a holiday, too, in most European countries and therefore counts as part of the box office weekend. But despite the additional day, there was hardly any change in ranking as well as ticket sales.

The beautiful Hollywood Legion Theater was buzzing at the opening of Noir City on April 15, a film festival showing restored noir films. The atmosphere was vibrant with a willing and dedicated audience, a few wearing vintage outfits with gusto, some masked as a Covid-19 precaution, others not.