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Kazakh director Ayana Nurdinova will screen her debut feature, Mugalim (The Teacher), in the New Directors section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, which runs September 18–26. The selection comes almost ten years after Nurdinova graduated from the Zhurgenov Academy of Arts. Shot in Balkhash, the film follows a music teacher who dreams of…

There’s something warm and inviting about Johanna Samuels’ music. Her songs have the feel of mid-70s singer/songwriter fare with a Laural Canyon edge, with guitars, bass, drums sitting alongside Wurlitzer, harmonium, Moog and Juno synthesizers. You can almost hear the room around the musicians and sometimes even the tape hiss. It’s an intimate, human sound…

Wamiqa Gabbi and Lokesh Kanagaraj in a still from DC (L) and cinematographer Mukesh G (R) Updated on: 11 Aug 2026, 6:31 pm

Long before actor, writer, and director Jon Favreau was a behemoth in the Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars universes, he was a struggling actor and writer hustling his way through Hollywood with a script he wrote on spec, the now-iconic indie hit Swingers (1996).