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22/02/2024 - BERLINALE 2024: Min Bahadur Bham delivers a film of great romantic and mystical purity following in the wake of a woman overcoming adversity in the heart of the Himalayas

16/02/2024 - BERLINALE 2024: Propelled by an innate sense of mise en scène, Jérémy Clapin makes the great leap from animation to fiction with an astonishing movie intertwining genres

Feature doc ‘Oasis’ and short film 'Towards the Sun, Far from the Center' rep Chile’s vibrant doc sector at Berlin.

Buoyed by the Oscar nomination of Chile’s very own Maite Alberdi for her poignant doc, “The Eternal Memory,” Chile’s documentary sector could not be more vibrant. Debuting at the Berlinale’s Forum sidebar is “Oasis,” the latest feature doc from the Mapa Fílmico de un País (MAFI) collective and the hybrid LGBTIQ+ themed short film “Towards …

Writer-director Amanda Nell Eu is the first Malaysian female director to screen a feature at Cannes.

Amanda Nell Eu's movie, which won a Cannes Film Festival prize in 2023, premieres on Netflix on Feb 15. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In the past decade, many independent filmmakers in Nepal have tried to capture stories from non-urban settings, piquing the interests of both local and foreign audiences and setting them apart from commercial Hindi films.

A new Evil Dead movie is officially in the works with horror filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček attached to direct and co-write.

"Something magical happened when I played." Kino Lorber has debuted an official US trailer for the wacky, brilliant, one-of-a-kind "high camp" indie comedy Diamantino, from directors Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt. This Portuguese film premiered in the Critics' Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and stopped by a bunch of major film

18/01/2024 - Mehdi Sahebi’s latest feature film depicts the difficult but hope-filled daily lives of a group of Afghan and Iranian refugees in Switzerland