‘Melania’: What to know about the US first lady’s new documentary
The film’s high budget has raised questions about efforts by powerful donors to win favour with the White House.

The film’s high budget has raised questions about efforts by powerful donors to win favour with the White House.


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“The Voice of Hind Rajab” won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, one of the highest honours at the Venice Film Festival.
The docudrama, which recounts the final plea of the five-year-old Gaza girl, premieres amid tears.

A mobile cinema wants to distract the children of Gaza with films, even as the ongoing war rips away their childhoods.
Dean Cain’s leap from TV hero to immigration enforcer captures America’s embrace of fear as patriotism.

Social media users are drawing parallels between DC’s new Superman film and Israel’s war on Gaza.
She portrayed working-class women on screen and became a beauty icon. Fonseka, 78, died on Saturday.
Power restored after outage hit the prominent film festival on its closing day and affected 160,000 homes in the area.

French actor Gérard Depardieu was found guilty on May 13 of sexually assaulting two women on a 2021 film set.
Popular US films from Wicked to Nosferatu were filmed in other countries including Australia and the UK.
China’s National Film Administration says US movies will be less popular after Washington imposed a 145 percent tariff.