Despite the headlines, The Odyssey is not a political movie. The Dark Knight Rises is, though, which is part of the reason why it's bad ...

Can film festivals also be political spaces? That was the absurd question that ran through this year’s Berlin Film Festival. It all began with jury president Wim Wenders saying during the fest’s ...

Roopesh Shetty’s new Tulu and Kannada drama, Jai, arrives like a message from a coastline that has long learned to fight for its own survival. Set in the heart of Coastal Karnataka and told in the ...

'Nightborn' director Hanna Bergholm was also asked about donning a watermelon pin, telling journalists at the film festival: "I think we have a responsibility to speak up... not speaking up is also a ...

Paris-based MMM Film Sales has picked up “Versailles,” from “Roma” and “Birds of Passage” producer Pimienta Films and its director Andrés Clariond Rangel’s Cinematográfica CR. Its trailer bows ...

From Birth of a Nation to The Quiet American, political stories are played out in feature films. Sean Mitchell speaks with producers on the left and right about the stories they tell and the ...

It’s only been five days since the Oscar nominations announcement, and campaigning for Phase 2 hasn’t kicked into gear quite yet. There have been a lot of other things to focus on: the final Park City ...

One Battle After Another is, perhaps, too on the nose. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic depicts past and present revolutionaries fighting back against a heavily militarized, white-supremacist regime that ...

Following the brouhaha around whether art should be divorced from politics at the Berlinale, the organizers of the 8th Joburg Film Festival at Tuesday night’s opener were adamant that all voices and ...