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'You will die at 20,' Sudan's first feature film in years becomes its first entry to the Oscars Could this film win Sudan its first Oscar? OTRC LOS ANGELES -- Imagine writing and directing your first feature film in a country that has no cinema. Now imagine that film becomes the country's first ever submission for an Oscar in the foreign language category, and yet the film hasn't even been shown in its native land. That's exactly what Amjad Abu Alala is experiencing with his film "You Will Die at 20." "The film is about going out of the box and then choosing in," Alala told On The Red Carpet'...

**** In the nastiest scene in The White Tiger, several roosters are decapitated. "The roosters in the coop smell the blood from above," says Balram (Adarsh Gourav). "Yet they do not rebel. The very same thing is done with human beings in this country." That may be true, but Balram—a poor man from a village in India—is determined to fly the coop. The White Tiger is the story of how he becomes a driver for a cruel and callow businessman (Rajkummar Rao) and eventually transcends poverty and notoriety to become a princely entrepreneur. Director Ramin Bahrani (who adapted the film from Arav...

Kenya’s film The Letter has been named in the list of eligible films for this year’s Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars. The nominees for the awards will be announced on February 9, 2021 ahead of the Oscars Academy Awards ceremony scheduled for April 25, 2021. The Kenya Film Commission has previously selected The Letter as the country’s official entry for the Oscars’ best international film category. The  Letter is a film by producer-director duo Christopher King and Maia Lekow. The film follows a young man, Karisa, who travels to his grandmother’s rural home when he l...

Mustafa Shehata in "You Will Die at Twenty." (Courtesy Film Movement) One of the few upsides to area arthouses going virtual is that bookings are no longer dictated by the requirements of a physical space. I’m not sure that in normal times “You Will Die at Twenty” could pull enough patrons to warrant a regular engagement on the Brattle’s single screen. But online screenings allow for multiple, more adventurous options, so thanks to the Brattlite we’ve got a chance to check out this remarkable debut film from writer-director Amjad Abu Alala, Sudan’s first-ever submission to the Aca...

Available Now! After losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army.  However, war is nothing like he imagined. this is the highest grossing Latvian film in decades and the first narrative feature from documentary director Dzintars Dreibergs.  Based on the novel by Aleksandrs Grīns describing his experience as a rifleman in World War I, and later in the Latvian War of Independence, it’s a film that tells the expected “war is hell” narrative but expands beyond that to explore a story of growth, both in its protagonist and in the greater Latvian peop...