Veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland whose films have been nominated three times in the Best Foreign Language film category, namely ‘Angry Harvest’ (1985), ‘Europa, Europa’ (1990), and ‘In Darkness’ (2011), has finally realized her decades long dream project about the enigmatic literary giant, Franz Kafka, in her latest Academy Awards contender, ‘Franz’. The celebrated international filmmaker shares her… Read More »
Guillermo del Toro was seven years old when he first saw ‘Frankenstein’ starring Boris Karloff as the creature. It was his epiphany, vowing to follow his messiah in creating a ‘sacred horror’ of a world. It was spawned by his fear-based religion and Mexican rooted dark imagination. He felt compelled to make his own cinematic version of the… Read More »
Raoul Peck adds “Orwell 2+2=5” to his stirring list of documentaries on human rights, which includes the Oscar nominated “I Am Not Your Negro,” a film about the life of James Baldwin. Peck has dedicated his career longing to change the way people view history and he could not let a project like ‘Orwell’ slip by without applying… Read More »
Multi-awarded and internationally renowned auteur Jafar Panahi arrives at TIFF50 with his new masterpiece, ‘It Was Just An Accident’. The revenge thriller has been awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2025, adding to his filmography an impressive list of international film festival awards like the Golden Leopard in 1997 for ‘The Mirror’, the Golden Lion in 2000 for… Read More »