Venice: Tilda Swinton spoke on Tuesday about the “therapeutic importance” of believing in ghosts as she presented a haunting, semi-autobiographical new film about a woman dealing with the death of her mother. Swinton’s latest collaboration with British director Joanna Hogg is “The Eternal Daughter”, competing at the Venice Film Festival, which draws heavily on both […]
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Film opens debate on spy who leaked US nuke plans to Russia
Venice: The little-known story of a teenage scientist who passed US nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union is the subject of a new documentary that premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week. “A Compassionate Spy“, by celebrated US filmmaker Steve James, hopes to reignite debate about nuclear weapons at a time of rising geopolitical […]
Canadian filmmaker calls The Kashmir Files ‘hatemongering garbage’
Filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray has called The Kashmir Files ‘hatemongering garbage.’ Gray said Anurag Kashyap was just trying to preserve what is left of India’s good name, when he expressed hopes that the film is not selected as the official entry to Oscars this year. Responding to Vivek Agnihotri’s tweet on Anurag’s comment, Dylan tweeted, “Yeah, […]
Film-maker Panahi to serve six-year sentence
TEHRAN: Award-winning Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, arrested last week in Tehran, must serve a six-year sentence previously handed to him in 2010, the judicial authority announced Tuesday. Panahi, 62, has won a number of awards at international festivals for films that have critiqued modern Iran, including the top prize in Berlin for “Taxi” in 2015, […]
Tax relief for filmmakers to uplift industry: Javed Sheikh
ISLAMABAD: Versatile Pakistani Actor and Director Javed Shiekh on Thursday said the tax relief announced by the government recently for the filmmakers would uplift the film industry which was set to take off with production of exceptional movies. He lauded the government’s incentives for the film industry and termed them “extraordinary”. It would help the […]
Film, Culture Policy 2018 revived to uplift industry: Marriyum
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Saturday said that the Film and Culture Policy 2018 was revived to uplift the industry through multiple incentives. Marriyum made the announcement in a meeting with the delegation of Film Producers Association. She also informed them about the steps being taken by the government for the […]
Registration for 2nd National Amateur Short Film Festival opened
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday announced that the youngsters aspiring to be filmmaker could register themselves online for the 2nd National Amateur Short Film Festival (NASFF) 2022 by May 30. “From oceans to mountains” was the theme of the NASFF 2022 jointly organized by the Information Ministry and Inter Services Public […]
Spanish actress Pilar Bardem, mother of Javier Bardem, dies at 82
Spanish actress Pilar Bardem, the mother of Oscar winner Javier Bardem, has died at the age of 82, her children said in a statement on social media. “We want to share the news that Pilar Bardem, our mother, our example, has passed away. She left in peace, without suffering and surrounded by the love of […]
The winners at the Cannes film festival
The Cannes film festival ended Saturday in the south of France with the awarding of its top prize, the Palme d’Or. Here is a list of the main winners: – Palme d’Or: Julia Ducournau for “Titane” (France) – Grand Prix: Shared by Ashgar Farhadi for “A Hero” (Iran) and Juho Kuosmanen for “Compartment No.6” (Finland) […]
Cannes falls for ‘The Worst Person in the World’
The Cannes film festival has fallen head over heels for a Norwegian film about a young woman trying to find herself and the unknown actress who plays her. “A star is born,” declared The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. Renate Reinsve “takes off like a rocket and deserves star status to rival Lily James or Alicia Vikander,” […]