“Squid Game” star lee Jung-jae was among the Korean celebrities to lead out a red-carpet parade on the opening night of the 29th edition of the Busan International Film Festival. The festival kicked off Wednesday with a bright show of international solidarity and a spectacular,
The British Film Institute and Chanel have named their latest crop of winners for the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards. The third annual awards — presented to three rising U.K. directors, with a prize of £20,000 ($26,000) to each — went to Luna Carmoon, writer/director of “Hoard”
Metrograph Pictures has acquired North American rights for Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Venice Special Jury prizewinner “April.” The festival standout earned unanimous critical praise upon world premiering at Venice with Variety describing it as a “radical, shattering exploration of women’s lives, rights and bodies in peril.” The
Michael Krummenacher’s World War II drama “The Traitor” (“Landesverräter”) tells the true story of a young man in Switzerland who, seeking to escape the repression of militarization during World War II, falls into the hands of a manipulative German spy. The film, which world premieres