The Directors’ Fortnight, a parallel program borne out of the […]

A recent spate of murders has rocked the Mumbai film industry in a vicious case of life imitating art. A lucrative but dodgy business that’s run by several mafia families, Mumbai’s film industry (known as Bollywood) is responsible for the world’s biggest filmic output. As demonstrated recently, working there can be killer. The recent murder of businessman Karan Kakkad is at the center of a major police inquiry. Kakkad, a would-be film producer, had come to Mumbai from Delhi with a dream: to make films and

The Tribeca Festival was never about half measures. This year’s […]

Every major film festival ought to have its own L.G.B.T. […]

Who will decide the fate of this year's crop of movies in Cannes, under the intelligent and amicable supervision of Nanni Moretti? Some French actresses, a British filmmaker woman, an American director and, (a first) a fashion-designer--Jean-Paul Gaultier. Hiam Abbas (Palestinian director and actress, you might have seen her in "Lemon Tree," available for streaming online), Andrea Arnold (British director and scriptwriter, perhaps Eng-

It would be hard to call ourselves a New York […]

It was just announced that Charlotte Gainsbourg was attached to […]

Kazakhstan on Monday made a public show of gratitude towards […]

On Sunday the Tribeca Festival held its Narrative Filmmaker Press […]

[In keeping with tradition the Tribeca Festival begins with a […]