Interviews

When you sit down to watch a Robert Eggers movie, you know you are in for a history lesson. But far from being a dry, dusty university lecture, Eggers' films have a perfectly calibrated vibrancy.

If you think that selling a car and making a movie are not that different, maybe you're not so far off. After all, film producers were called smoke sellers for years.

An Egyptian business major student finishes his second year of college. As he enjoys a break in New York, he gets the news that he failed his exams.

Following the first season of a smash hit TV show can make even the most seasoned of actors nervous. Jean Smart, known for such successes as Designing Women, Samantha Who?, Fargo, Legion, and Watchmen, and who took home a Golden Globe award this year for her role as a veteran stand-up comedienne Deborah Vance in the Golden Globe Winner Hacks, is all too familiar with this scenario.

In Beautiful Beings, a teenage boy, Addi (Birgir Dagur Bjarkason), becomes friends with Balli (Áskell Einar Pálmason) after having seen him on national television. Balli is in the news as a victim of teen violence, which, we learn, is an increasing problem in the capital of Iceland.

Debut filmmaker Trygvi Danielsen had no doubts. When he sat down to write the script of his first feature film, 111 Good Days (111 góðir dagar), he knew it had to be in the Faroese language.

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.

25 years ago, the film about the life of the late singer Selena was released. At that time, Jennifer Lopez, who played her on the big screen, became the highest-paid Latina actress in Hollywood.

The non-profit organization Women’s Voices Now, founded in 2010, was established to drive positive social change with the purpose of advancing girls’ and women’s rights globally. The organization was built on the idea that women’s voices and their struggle for equality around the world should be supported.

Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) has sudden outbursts of anger. Emma (Linnea Leino) wishes to compete at the figure skating European championship but struggles to keep her focus.