Palestinian directors Tarzan and Arab Nasser’s Once Upon A Time In Gaza has scooped Best Film at the 10th Critics’ Awards For Arab Films. Set in Gaza in 2007, and following the misadventures of a student (Nader Abd Alhay) and restaurant owner and petty criminal (Majd Eid), the picture premiered in Un Certain Regard last…
When Hiam Abbass first read the script for Reed Van Dyk’s debut Atonement, based on a 2012 New Yorker article, it moved her to tears. “I wasn’t familiar with the article at all, but when I read the script, I started crying while reading it,” Abbass tells Deadline. “And when I get such a big emotion…
Pawel Pawlikowski’s third go-round at Cannes, the in-competition Fatherland, received a six minute standing ovation today in its world premiere at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. That marks two big standing ovations for theatrical distributor Mubi, following last night’s Un Certain Regard premiere Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma which landed an unexpected nine-minute standing…
EXCLUSIVE: 11:11 Media, the media production company founded by Paris Hilton, has teamed with Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of four Saw films, on a new horror feature titled Road To Reality. Bousman will direct the film from a screenplay by Katina Nikou. The story is said to be set within the “imploding world of…
Two-time Oscar winning and Cannes lauded filmmaker Asghar Farhadi expressed this morning how he continues to be jolted by the atrocities in his home country of Iran which remains at war with the U.S. Farhardi was specifically asked about by a journalist about working without limits on his latest production in France; if he had…
Demi Moore was blunt. “AI is here,” Moore, a jury member at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, said during a press conference on Tuesday. “And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it, I think, is…