The programme will be made up primarily of movies shown online at the March edition, including the winners of its Golden and Silver Bears, which will be awarded at a gala ceremony on June 13. Existing open-air cinemas throughout the city, as well as a specially created site on Berlin’s historic Museum Island, will serve as venues and comply with pandemic hygiene rules
Jason Statham return engagement with director-writer Guy Ritchie builds on a partnership that has previously produced ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,’ ‘Snatch’ and ‘Revolver’
The show follows Iraqi celebrity guests who are invited to what is described as a ‘charity event’ but then fall prey to a staged ambush by actors playing militants. They are later freed by other actors playing Iraqi security forces
Filmmaker Alex Gibney explains how the drugs that caused the crisis came to be, how companies aggressively promoted and distributed them and how the government failed to act swiftly and effectively to save lives
The film is based on Sharrock’s own experience of studying and living in Arab countries, visiting refugee camps, and rooted in the fact that asylum-seekers...
Curators Nour Ouayda and Rami el Sabbagh discuss their selection of Lebanese shorts streaming at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, with...
This cartoon manages to spin through a sincere father-daughter relationship, our technology addictions, Instagram jealousy and general feelings of inadequacy...
A post announcing Zhao’s directing win by film magazine Watch Movies, which has over 14 million followers on the ubiquitous Weibo microblog, was deleted a few...
The jury that decides the Princess of Asturias Awards said that the work of the 74-year-old Abramovic revealed ‘a sensorial and spiritual component hitherto...
In a sign of Basquiat’s growing status in the art world, the same canvas was sold in November 2002 for $999,500, barely more than a hundredth of the price...
The World Youth Orchestra project will offer 250 hours of free one-on-one lessons to six violin students from different regions of Lebanon, aged seven to 14...
Lipa dedicated one of her awards to British nurse Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, noting that she had said ‘there’s a massive disparity between gratitude and respect...
A tireless advocate of Lebanese fine art, the writer, gallerist, collector, publisher, patron, and museum founder passed away at the age of 84
His rich anthems of peace and struggle, hope and discontent, still reverberate globally and especially in his native Jamaica, a small nation whose rich...
The biggest surprise of the evening saw best actor prize go to Anthony Hopkins for his turn in the dementia drama ‘The Father.’ The award had been widely...
‘Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World’ is a three-part series that follows the then-16-year-old as she took a gap year from school in 2019 to meet with...
Independent Film did everything it could to virtually mimic the experience of the awards, including grouping Zoomed-in attendees by table, featuring virtual...
After years of misfires and flops, it’s lately seemed like a new level has been unlocked for one of the movies’ most derided genres. In 2019, ‘Detective...
Just in time for the Ramadan viewing season, Spring Entertainment promises an hour of Lebanese-driven, MENA-region inspired, anime-ish drama
A contemplative character study made for $5 million and populated by non-professional actors, Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ is not your typical Oscar heavyweight,...
American recession drama "Nomadland" and British coming-of-age story "Rocks" lead nominations at this weekend's BAFTA awards with seven nods each, but the...
‘The request by “MBS” was very clear: Show the Salvator Mundi next to the Mona Lisa, and present it as 100 percent a da Vinci,’ the French official says, but...
Compelled to make a short about the Beirut port blast, the Beirut-born filmmaker discusses his new project, tracing the journey of Naji Al-Ali’s caricature...
The most famous victim of the Italian censor was Bernardo Bertolucci’s steamy Oscar-nominated 1972 classic ‘Last Tango in Paris,’ all copies of which were...
‘Le DZ à Dubaï’ (‘DZ’ being Arabic shorthand for ‘Algeria’ or ‘Algerian’) brings together a group of Algerian social media influencers, former models and...
Separating fragments of Palestine's sub-divided territory from one another are Israeli watchtowers, the apartheid wall, checkpoints – structures of domination...
Back online, the sixth edition of the Doha Film institute’s cinema incubator platform presented 48 projects from 21 countries, five from Lebanon
In the opening moments of the HBO documentary "Tina," Tina Turner doesn't just command the stage as she's belting out "Ask Me How I Feel" for a giant stadium...