Variety will present a Women in Cinema Panel at the Cannes Film Festival in tandem with the Red Sea International Film Festival featuring top talents from Egypt, India, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Senegal. The panel will take place at La Plage Des Palmes on Saturday, May 18, at
Hundreds were killed in recent flooding in Afghanistan, which saw homes swept away and roads destroyed.
Buenos Aires-based production, sales and distribution company FilmSharks has picked up all worldwide rights to the new crime thriller by Argentina’s Sebastian Schindel, “A Silent Death” (Una muerte silenciosa”), to which it has sold Latin American theatrical rights to Disney’s
Lupe Fiasco has revealed he'll be dropping his ninth studio album 'Samurai' this summer, while sharing the first single from the project.
The latest instalment of the hugely popular series will be released in autumn 2025, its publisher says.
A radical vision of Indian womanhood collides with scattered storytelling in director Konstantin Bojanov’s “The Shameless,” a provocative queer drama laid low by its oblique narrative. Following two women destined for a life of sex work, the drama is lucid in its politics, but
Mollie, Lauren and Robin Valentine talk about games in development hell.
The paranoid backlash to US campus protests is a reminder that direct action works, writes Vijay Prashad. And this time the students won't be deterred.
Debt Relief Orders are available to those on low incomes to clear existing debt and surged as the fee was axed.
A recent report found that millennials and Gen Zs make up around 85 per cent of “buy now, pay later” debtors monthly in the country.
While scrolling through Facebook on a recent morning, I came across news about the potential appointment of a new US ambassador to Bangladesh. David Meale appeared poised to take over for Peter Haas, who might well go down as the most impactful US envoy in Bangladesh’s recent
The latest offer amounted to around a third of what the campaigner had asked for.
Layzie Bone is not a fan of the recent feud and resulting war of words between Kendrick Lamar and Drake and would rather see the rappers come together.
In another sign that the #MeToo movement is transforming the birthplace of cinema, France’s film producers and actors unions on Friday unanimously approved new measures aimed at preventing gender-based and sexual violence and harassment within the industry. Several French
President Biden is entering a critical phase of his presidency and his campaign. House Republicans want to make it more difficult. Conservatives in the House on Thursday used a bill that will go nowhere in the Senate to showcase uncomfortable divisions among Democrats over
French-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch is in Cannes for the third time with “Everybody Loves Touda,” launching out of competition. The film tells the story of a young poet and singer steeped in an ancient Moroccan form of folk song called aita, but forced to perform trashy pop
ChatGPT will be trained using Reddit content as competition for premium datasets heats up among AI firms.
The filmmaker returned to the Cannes Film Festival half a century after winning its first Palme d'Or
Spanish sales, distribution, and production company Filmax has picked up international rights to the upcoming kids and family animated feature “The Light of Aisha” and is sharing the project with buyers at this year’s Marché du Film. The CG-animated film tells the story of
A UC Irvine professor was among pro-Palestine protesters arrested- who was filmed being escorted off campus by police as protests took a tense turn.
[New Dawn] Monrovia -- Liberian legal luminary Cllr. Tiawan S. Gongloe and Kenyan Law Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba point to a new revolution hitting the African Continent.
Hezbollah said it launched "more than 60" rockets at Israeli military positions in retaliation for overnight air strikes on Thursday.
Church asks people to record species found in local graveyards, which can provide good habitat for complex life form The still calm of graveyards invites visitors to think about the dead, but now the Church of England is asking people across the country to look for surprising
Glyphosate found in samples from French infertility clinic raising questions about controversial chemical’s impact on fertility More than 55% of sperm samples from a French infertility clinic contained high levels of glyphosate, the world’s most common weedkiller, raising
For Afghans living under Taliban rule, a Saturday market is a rare chance to cross the border into neighbouring Tajikistan and pick up food and household goods. The popular bazaar in the small town of Kalai-Khumb -- about six hours' drive east from the Tajik capital Dushanbe --
Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will face off in a historic clash billed as the fight of a generation on Saturday with the first undisputed heavyweight bout in 25 years. The mercurial Briton and the relentless Ukrainian have both arrived undefeated in the Saudi capital Riyadh,
It’s simple: we need to be doing more to save our only home from the climate change tipping point that scientists keep reminding us we’re hurtling towards, Dr Carys Bennett writes.
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Chinese military personnel are visiting their Japanese counterparts this week, raising hopes of more stable bilateral relations or at least greater familiarity to manage any future crises. What it probably won’t do, however, is make any fundamental change in their East Asia
A recent drop in UN estimates of killed Palestinian women and children brought Israeli criticism.
The Raw Materials Funds announced by France, Germany and Italy will be operational before the summer break.
An Israeli report revealed there has been a sharp increase in the monitoring of journalists’ work, particularly regarding Israel’s war on Hamas.
While Russia’s gains over the last several weeks have been comparatively small, analysts say they are straining Ukraine’s military over a broad geographic area.
This week, we look at the fighting in Sudan's Darfur region, a spat between Gallant and Netanyahu about Gaza's future, and upheaval in Kuwaiti politics.