Romanian filmmaker Florin Șerban’s You Don’t Belong Here (Nu E Locul Tau Aici) has won the Golden Leopard at the 79th Locarno Film Festival. The jury praised the film’s writing, distinctive vision and cinematic language. Hong Sangsoo took Best Director for Nowhere to Lay My Eyes, while Monica Bellucci won a performance award for Ketticè. In the Filmmakers of the Present competition, Alessandra Sanguinetti’s The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer received the Golden Leopard as well as the Best First Feature award. Petra Volpe’s prison drama Frank & Louis won the UBS ' ...
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In neighborhood cable rooms across South Asia, a rented VCD often mattered as much to Titanic’s legacy as any multiplex screen. For many millennials across the region and much of the Global South, Titanic (1997) was not remembered primarily as a theatrical event. Multiplex distribution was still scarce, and many younger viewers encountered the film later through television and disc culture. As the early-2000s satellite boom took hold, Titanic became an inescapable presence on regional television, returning repeatedly through movie channels and holiday programming. Alongside these broadcasts, an informal network of ' ...
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Rubaiyat Hossain is an acclaimed Bangladeshi filmmaker whose work explores social realities through a distinctly feminist perspective. Her films include Meherjaan, Under Construction and Made in Bangladesh, which earned international recognition and a National Film Award for Best Director. Her fourth feature, The Difficult Bride, marks another milestone as the first Bangladeshi film selected for the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival. For Cut to Cinema, editor Bidhan Rebeiro spoke with Hossain about Venice, creative freedom and the growing international presence of Bangladeshi cinema. 1. Congratulations on The Difficult ' ...
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“To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.” Over the past three decades, Alejandro González Iñárritu has established himself as one of modern cinema’s most visionary storytellers, creating films that transcend geographical and cultural boundaries while exploring universal themes of love, grief, guilt, redemption and survival. Born in Mexico City on August 15, 1963, Alejandro G. Iñárritu didn’t grow up following the traditional route into filmmaking. Before directing movies, he worked in many sectors that broadened his ' ...
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There is a scene in Golapi Ekhon Traine that I keep thinking about whenever Amjad Hossain comes to mind. Golapi enters a first-class compartment and the passengers tell her this is first class, meant for first-class passengers, not people like her. She does not apologise or leave. She looks at them and says there is no class in Bangladesh, everyone belongs to the same class here. Of course, we know she is not literally right. Bangladesh is divided by money, education, manners and access, and that compartment makes the division ' ...
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