“The Tale of Silyan” (watch the trailer below) is hands-down the year’s most beautiful documentary, an incredibly thoughtful non-fiction depiction of the relationship between an elderly man in North ...

Working from a screenplay by Satoko Okudera, Lee focuses on onnagatas — the male actors who have played female roles in kabuki since 17th-century shoguns forbade women from performing. Within the ...

The film bowed to raves, including from IndieWire, at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. It is one of the docs to watch going into Oscar season and will be released by National Geographic theatrically ...

Backstage melodrama meets succession saga in Sang-il Lee's feature, which is toplined by Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama and features a key supporting performance by Ken Watanabe. By Sheri Linden ...

This is the latest instalment in a feature series reflecting on instances of East meets West in world cinema, including China-US co-productions. If asked to name the first American film to be shot and ...

Actress Mallika Sherawat had a moment to remember when she met Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, the creative genius behind the critically acclaimed Parasite. The actress, who is currently in ...

Over the last 30 years, Spain has stood out in Europe for its smart genre output: Think “The Orphanage,” “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Open Your Eyes” among early examples. From its reception this weekend, ...

Actor Vishal Jethwa described his encounter with legendary director Martin Scorsese in New York as a monumental episode in his career journey. While Scorsese, serving as the executive producer for ...

The editor of ‘Robot Dreams’ delivers his fourth feature as a director, his first thriller, a neo-noir exposé of toxic family relations sold by France’s Elle Driver Over the last 30 years, Spain has ...

Actor Vishal Jethwa is in cloud nine as he recenrly had a moment that was straight out of a dream. He shared pictures of his meeting with the living legend Martin Scorsese in New York during the US ...