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Gabriel Mascaro's "The Blue Trail," playing in competition in Berlin, marks another great milestone for Brazilian cinema in a year where the country got its first best picture Oscar nomination with Wa...

The latest from an animation powerhouse, an anticipated biopic from a three-time Oscar nominee and a buzzy Sundance premiere headline the slate of new and upcoming Czech titles on offer at this year&#...

One year ago, production in Prague had hit a worrying lull, with an uncharacteristic slowdown apparent on the usually booked soundstages and bustling streets of the Czech capital. Normally one of Euro...

The sophomore film from "The Ballad of Suzanne Csaire" director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and the feature debut of rising Senegalese filmmaker Awa Moctar Gueye are among the projects that pan-African pro...

John Mulaney may have spoken best to the mostly wonderful randomness of the lineup for Friday night’s live “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert” special when, late in the show, he invoked ...

Alex Kahuam, director of the one-take thriller “Failure!," starring Ted Raimi, has officially launched a new Los Angeles-based shingle, Kahuam Films. Kahuam, who premiered "Failure!" at the Cann...

One of France's foremost doc feature producers, Paris-based Les Films d'ici, has boarded "Who We Are" ("Qui som"). A buzz title at Berlin's Spain in Focus showcase, "Who We Are" is being presented by ...

On a recent winter morning in Ft, on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn presided over a parade of officials and film industry luminaries at the ribbon-...

It was welcome - perhaps even surprising - news for Hungarian moviegoers to discover that two home-grown productions were sitting at the top of the box office at the start of the year: "Gone Running,"...

Sundance prizewinner Lemohang Mosese returns to the Berlin Film Festival with his third feature, "Ancestral Visions of the Future," which premieres Feb. 20 in the Berlinale Special strand. A deeply au...