Local cinema triumphed at the 37th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), with Singaporean director Ang Geck Geck’s feature debut Ah Girl winning best Asian feature film at the festival’s Silver Screen Awards. 

The 13th Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth has announced its winners, recognising Arabic and international shorts alongside animation, documentary and student filmmaking.

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Right before Hollywood became the headquarters of the American film industry, some producers had flocked to Colorado and used its craggy peaks and wild rivers as central backdrops in Westerns.

LAHORE: The cries of horror and Israeli bombardment echoed through the halls of a screening room in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore last week, where audience members viewed the riveting stories about the atrocities in Gaza on the big screen.

“Fjord” was something of a surprising winner for the Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It was neither the best reviewed film in competition nor the most acclaimed work of its director, Cristian Mungiu; critics thought the anti-Putin thriller “Minotaur” or the Thomas Mann biopic “Fatherland” were safer consensus picks. I suspect the…