Column: Guatemalan Film Personalizes Still-Open Wounds of War
An Interview with Director César Díaz Guatemalan director César Díaz's first feature film, “Our Mothers” (“Nuestras Madres”), screened...
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Set Visit: Netflix's 1940s Spanish Mystery Series 'High Seas'
Fans of the mix of melodrama and period style of certain Spanish series popularized by Netflix would instantly recognize the telephone ...
Column: Oscar-nominated Mexican drama “Roma” breaks barriers and sparks debate
At a time when public discourse in the US has been dominated by talk of walls, it’s ironic that a Mexican film has been knocking down...
Interview: Actor-Director Wagner Moura
Best known internationally for his Golden Globe-nominated role as Pablo Escobar in the Netflix series Narcos, actor-turned-director...
Interview: Director Isabel Coixet
The moment may seem ripe for director Isabel Coixet’s latest film. Following in the footsteps of Oscar best picture nominees Roma and The...
Report: Controversy swirls in Spain around Goya-nominated short film "Gaza"
The documentary shorts category rarely grabs headlines at awards show, but the night before Spain's equivalent of the Oscars, the Goyas,...
Report: Cuarón Blasts Netflix's Castilian subtitling of "Roma"
The acclaimed film, set in Mexico in the 1970s, was subtitled from Mexican Spanish into Castilian Spanish. Fans of Alfonso Cuaron's Roma...
Column: Films, Series Offer a Glimpse into Pre-Bolsonaro Brazil
They call him the “Trump of the Tropics.” But according to people inside Brazil, their newly elected president Jair Bolsonaro has more in...
Report: Gender Equality - How the European Film Industry Can Lead Hollywood
The European film industry should have an easier time pursuing gender equality than Hollywood, panelists suggested at a roundtable on...
Report: European Film Awards 2019
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War was the big winner Saturday night at the 31st annual European Film Awards in Seville, Spain, walking away...