Italy is the most successful country in the Best International Feature Film Oscar category with 14 wins, and this year it will compete with ...

There’s an unintended irony in the title of Cherien Dabis’s Oscar entry, a decades-spanning saga involving three generations of a Palestinia...

South Africa competes in this year’s Best International Feature race with The Heart Is a Muscle, the debut feature from filmmaker Imran Hamd...

Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes’ first feature won the Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize in May and has played at a raft of festivals since. T...

Park Chan-wook’s latest film took nearly 20 years to reach the screen, since he first picked up Donald E. Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax. Orig...

A new national security strategy released by the White House calls for asserting U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere and “cultivating r...

Just before lockdown struck in 2020, the Best International Feature Film category was about to break wide open, with South Korea’s surprise...

Agnieszka Holland’s biopic Franz world premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September and has since played a raft of festivals and been...

“Belén” is famous among Argentinian women — yet very few of them know her true identity. All is explained in Belén, a powerful and sometimes...

Finnish maestro Teemu Nikki returns to his home village of Sysmäi for a tale of two sisters who are famed for their strong homebrew ale, sah...

Israeli director Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s drama The Sea follows 12-year-old Khaled, a Palestinian boy living in the landlocked West Bank whose...

The Last Dance, Hong Kong’s entry for the Best International Oscar race, hasn’t only been a hit with local critics. The film has also drumme...

Urška Djukic was watching a Catholic girls choir singing a Slovenian folk song when she first got the inspiration to make her debut film Lit...

Prolific Slovakian filmmaker Tereza Nvotová returned to feature filmmaking this year with Father, a tightly constructed family drama, which...

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s poignant but heartwarming drama The President’s Cake world premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at Cann...