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‘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.
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Hind Rajab film given major prize at Venice film festival
“The Voice of Hind Rajab” won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, one of the highest honours at the Venice Film Festival.
Published On 7 Sep 2025
Hind Rajab film premieres at Venice amid tears, ‘free Palestine’ chants
The docudrama, which recounts the final plea of the five-year-old Gaza girl, premieres amid tears.
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Makeshift cinema camp gives children temporary escape from war in Gaza
A mobile cinema wants to distract the children of Gaza with films, even as the ongoing war rips away their childhoods.
Published On 28 Aug 2025
Superman’s new job at ICE is the perfect American plot twist
Dean Cain’s leap from TV hero to immigration enforcer captures America’s embrace of fear as patriotism.
From: NewsFeed
People are seeing parallels with Gaza war in Superman movie
Social media users are drawing parallels between DC’s new Superman film and Israel’s war on Gaza.
Published On 15 Jul 2025
‘She’s the queen’: Sri Lanka bids farewell to film legend Malini Fonseka
She portrayed working-class women on screen and became a beauty icon. Fonseka, 78, died on Saturday.
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Arson attack probed as Cannes and parts of southern France suffer power cut
Power restored after outage hit the prominent film festival on its closing day and affected 160,000 homes in the area.
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French actor Gérard Depardieu guilty of sexual assault on film set in 2021
French actor Gérard Depardieu was found guilty on May 13 of sexually assaulting two women on a 2021 film set.
Published On 13 May 2025
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Trump threatens tariffs on foreign films: Who could be hit?
Popular US films from Wicked to Nosferatu were filmed in other countries including Australia and the UK.
China to ‘reduce’ Hollywood movie releases in response to Trump’s tariffs
China’s National Film Administration says US movies will be less popular after Washington imposed a 145 percent tariff.
