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Updated: 25/03/2025 – 17:54 GMT+1 Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers, according to activists and witnesses and later detained by the military in the occupied West …

Benegal, a pioneer of new wave cinema in India, was celebrated for his films addressing social issues. Shyam Benegal, the acclaimed Indian filmmaker who spearheaded a new wave cinema movement …

Mohamed Jabaly finds himself stateless in Norway when the Gaza border suddenly closes. Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly travels abroad for the first time when he is invited to a film …

London, United Kingdom – Gillan Mosely began questioning her upbringing as a teenager. Growing up in a Jewish family that believed in Zionism, she spent much of her adolescence thinking …

The defining experience of Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s childhood left her with badly scraped knees and her classmates with broken bones. During sixth grade in Osaka, Japan, Ms. Yamazaki — now …

Mel Brooks is recalling the «sad» aftermath of good friend and late actor Gene Wilder’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.  In the new «Remembering Gene Wilder» documentary, Brooks opened up about his friendship …

TWO YEARS AGO, the Spanish filmmaker Albert Moya came to Florence to visit an artist friend who’d unwittingly become the caretaker of a large family estate, left empty after a …

As a teenager in drama school in Cape Town in the 1990s, Kagiso Lediga was bored by the heavy focus on theatre and Shakespeare in the curriculum. For a teenager …