David Tennant will host the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards.  Once again hosted at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, the event will mark Tennant's second consecutive year as host.  "We couldn't be happier that David Tennant is returning to host the EE BAFTA Film Awards in 2025," BAFTA CEO Jane…

In Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai's Anuja, resilience in the face of hardship is the central heartbeat. The short film, doubling as both a heartwarming tribute to sisterhood and as a social awareness campaign about the effects of unchecked child labor, focuses on Anuja (Sajda Pathan), a young girl who…

Irish comedy Kneecap dominated this evening’s British Independent Film Awards in London winning seven awards, including Best British Independent Film. Chiwetel Ejiofor presented the award for Best British Independent Film supported by ScreenUK, to Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt's comedy following the west…

In I Am: Celine Dion, the French-Canadian singer allowed director Irene Taylor and cinematographer Nick Midwig to film her struggles with stiff person syndrome. Dion received the diagnosis in 2022 and later had to cancel her world tour due to muscle spasms and rigidity. One such spasm occurred while…

Frida is not just a documentary about the art and life of Frida Kahlo. Director Carla Gutierrez wanted to use the tools of the format to capture Kahlo's emotions. Those tools included narration, archival material, score and the creative touch of animating Kahlo's paintings. "We wanted to make sure…

The DailyWire+ satirical documentary Am I Racist? broke records by making more than $12 million at the box office. It also landed a session in Deadline's awards-season showcase Contenders Documentary. In the movie, director Justin Folk films Matt Walsh infiltrating leaders in diversity movements and…

Swedish duo Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson directed and starred in the documentary The Last Journey. In the film, Sweden’s submission to the International Feature Oscar race, Hammar and Wikingsson take Hammar's father, Lars, a retired teacher, on a road trip through France to help him deal with his…

The documentary War Game films a simulation of a military coup after a disputed presidential election. The 2024 election ended decisively in favor of Donald Trump, who will take office in January. Directors Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber filmed the scenario designed by Vet Voice Foundation CEO Janessa…

Director Hasan Oswald got to know a Yazidi translator on his previous project and wanted to make a film about the victims of the 2014 Yazidi genocide. In 2018, he met Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad, then 14, having just returned from captivity by ISIS since she was 10. Oswald gave Alhamad the camera to film her…

Refresh for latest…: It was smooth sailing for Disney’s Moana 2 this weekend as it reached $600M global following last frame‘s record-breaking bow. The running split is even for the splashy sequel, with $300M domestic and $300M from the international box office. The full overseas frame was $103.7M in…

Around three-quarters of the way through the prodigious length of Pushpa 2: The Rule, Pushpa's spirited wife Srivalli (Rashmika Mandanna) reminds a crowd that her husband "is not just a man; he is a brand." These are the truest words spoken in this unabashedly commercial film, which takes up from where Pus…

Brendan Fraser have given an update on his upcoming post The Whale films, including Searchlight's Tokyo-Shot Rental Family, and also revealed he would like to get into producing next, in an onstage conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival. "I finished a film earlier this year in Japan called Rental F…