Narrative Feature ‘Sinjar’ Portrays ISIS From a Female Standpoint

thurible during the ceremony. The decision to open with part of one entry in what becomes an anthology or series of vignettes created entirely by six victims of Catholic sexual abuse creates inauspicious expectations for Greene’s ability to capture the therapeutic powers of these short films, much less the artistic legitimacy of their efforts.

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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterPatrick Hughes, director of the successful action-comedy franchise “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” is setting up his next project at Lionsgate.Variety can exclusively report that Hughes will write and direct “War Machine,” an action/sci-fi film about the final recruits of a grueling special ops boot camp who encounter a deadly force from beyond this world.Announced by Lionsgate president of production Erin Westerman, the project will be produced by Range Media

Emily Mei has released her debut single ‘My Domain’, featuring CLC’s Sorn and f(x)’s Amber Liu.The funky EDM-influenced dance-pop song dropped alongside a partially animated music video that draws inspiration from both K-pop and anime.

EXCLUSIVE: Nothing Compares To U singer Sineád O’Connor is the latest pop star to get the feature doc treatment.

Netflix has unveiled a hefty list of upcoming Japanese titles, including both anime and live-action films and series. The company is hosting a two-day event this week – the Netflix Japan Festival 2021 – at which it will significantly expand its local slate in the country.

The Montclair Film Festival (MFF) unveiled its 2021 winners, with Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World taking the top prize. This year’s festival featured four competitive categories: Fiction, Documentary, Future/ Now, and New Jersey Filmmaking. Additionally, the Fiction and Documentary juries also awarded films for the festival’s Short Film competitions. The MFF also announced the festival’s 2021 Audience Awards and Junior Jury prizes.

Emilio Mayorga Alê Abreu’s ‘Perlimps’ and Milton Guerrero’s ‘Kai’ are among the five selected projects to be presented at the Animation! Works in Progress by Annecy showcase at Ventana Sur 2021, the biggest film and TV confab in Latin America.The Animation! WIPs by Annecy sidebar is curated by the French festival and its MIFA market.

Tomris Laffly Despite vast differences in style, temperament and life priorities, there is palpable closeness between Zorah, Nohra and Djamila, the central French-Algerian siblings of Yamina Benguigui’s generations-spanning yet emotionally and visually flat familial movie “Sisters.”Played respectively by the legendary Isabelle Adjani (who is inexplicably wooden here), Maïwenn and Rachida Brakni, three actors who are aptly of Algerian background or descent, the trio pursue their lives as

Chris Willman Music WriterArriving a mere seven months after “Chemtrails Over the Country Club,” all signs pointed to Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Banisters” being a companion piece. Proximity, it turns out, is all they have in common.

Clare Crawley and Dale Moss sure sound like they are done for good this time — so no wonder she isn’t holding back any more!

JD Linville Filmax has acquired international rights to animated Basque feature “Save the Tree,” a new film from director duo Iker Alvarez and Haizea Pastor following the adventures of forest pixies and their quest to reconnect children with nature.A market premiere at this week’s Spanish Screenings-Málaga de Cine, the film has a central theme of environmental protection and subtly warns of the dangers of our technologically obsessed culture.“Save the Tree” is set amongst the forests of the

Ramona Singer doesn't plan to hand her apple into Bravo anytime soon.«As long as I have fun doing the show, I'm happy to come back,» the  OG tells ET, speaking on the red carpet at the release party for  Bravo's authorized tell-all oral history of the shows, in New York City.«To me, I always say, you're good at what you do if you love what you do,» Ramona says of wanting to stay on  for as long as she wants. «And I loved doing the show at Peacock, [], and even during COVID I loved doing [].

The Financial Times.“We didn’t hide behind a woman, we hid behind a name,” Mercero told Spanish newspaper El País. “I don’t know if a female pseudonym would sell more than a male one, I don’t have the faintest idea, but I doubt it.”In interviews and on their author profile, Martínez, Díaz and Mercero said Carmen Mola was a university professor who lived in Madrid with her husband and three children.

K.J. Yossman The Spanish literary world was rocked on Friday night by the revelation that one of the country’s most celebrated female novelists, Carmen Mola, was in fact a work of fiction.