Film

Shahbaz Sarwar had been to the premiere of The Force Awakens (2015) at the Imperial Cinema in Denmark when he got the idea to become part of the Star Wars fan base which makes fan movies. Star Wars fan films have become quite popular among fans and are accepted by Lucasfilm as long as they are not commercial projects.

To most film fans, Indian cinema is synonymous with Bollywood, the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) known for its commercial films with melodramatic plots, song-and-dance numbers, star-crossed lovers, mustache-twirling villains, and prostitutes with hearts-of-gold. But South Indian cinema has been thriving for decades even though it has been mostly ignored by Western audiences until the success of the blockbuster RRR cast a spotlight on Tollywood, the Telugu-language film industry based in Hyderabad.

Stories of motherhood and family are popular and wide-ranging. In honoring of Mother’s Day, below is an overview of some movies on the theme from the dramatic to the heartwarming to the utterly comedically outrageous.

One of the most powerful elements of cinema is how it brings languages, costumes, and stories to audiences all over the world. Tizuka Yamasaki, the granddaughter of a Japanese couple, born in the south of Brazil, at the height of the coffee wave does exactly this in her work.

  Italian filmmaker, Andrea Pallaoro, celebrated his second time in competition at last year’s Venice Film Festival with his third film, Monica, starring Trace Lysette (Transparent) and Patricia Clarkson (She Said, The Station Agent). The 42-year-old filmmaker from Trento divides his time between Los Angeles and Italy and first won acclaim with his 2008 short film, Wunderkammer, followed by the feature films, Medeas (2013) and Hannah (2017), starring Charlotte Rampling.

Last week, 30-year-old Edward Buckles Jr. received the Rising Star Award from his hometown at the New Orleans Film Society.

A big South-Asian wedding winks at Jackie Chan and his kung-fu moves in a Jane Austenesque sisterly love story with a sprinkle of the inevitable comparison to Everything Everywhere All at Once. Nida Manzoor's Polite Society – just out in theaters in the U.

“Slash/Back”: Sci-Fi on a Shoestring Budget  By Margaret Gardiner The Golden Globes are always searching for the best of the best. They also have a history of celebrating new talent and new shows.

Michel Gondry can solve a Rubik’s cube with his toes, despises superheroes and adores the quirky Icelandic singer Björk. As famous for his music videos and commercials as he is for his feature films, it is hard to believe that the unique French director, once hailed as a boy wonder turns 60 today.