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The story of a woman who has an affair with her teenage stepson in May el-Toukhy’s film “Queen of Hearts” may not sound like the most positive of female narratives in the lens of the #MeToo movement.

But el-Toukhy and star Trine Dyrholm explain that you’re supposed to feel uncomfortable — even shameful — while watching this otherwise strong, confident and powerful female character show that her morally corrupt behavior still makes her human. And telling stories about any women on screen — even bad characters — is still crucial.

“We stand on the shoulders of the female filmmakers and feminists before us. A new sort of feminism is thriving,” el-Toukhy told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman Thursday following a screening of the film at the Landmark Theatres in Los Angeles. “Equality is not only enhancing the good in a woman in a film. It’s also daring to depict the bad. What...

Nancy Kwan, Lena Khan, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Tiffany Chu were honored with awards during the Asian World Film Festival, which took place Nov. 6-14.

In its fifth year, the Awff teamed up with the Snow Leopard Trust again to raise awareness for the endangered snow leopard and its ecosystem in the high mountains of Asia.

“The World of Suzie Wong” actor Kwan received the Awff Lifetime Achievement Award; Sanada, the Snow Leopard Outstanding Cinematic Achievement Award; Chu, the 2019 Snow Leopard Rising Star Award; and Khan took home the Awff American Red Cross/ Tiffany Circle Courage to Dream Award.

Additionally, Suium Sulaimanova accepted the inaugural Hollywood Foreign Press Association Snow Leopard Short Film award for her film “My Friend – My Enemy.”

Other winners of the festival were announced in a closing ceremony hosted by actor and co-founder of Asians in La Nancy Yoon. View the complete list of winners from the...

Everyone involved in the making of “Shindisi” was affected by what happened in Georgia in 2008, and thus invested in director Dito Tsintsadze’s mission: to remind the world of what happened — and is still happening — to their country.

“This creeping invasion is going on every week…every day. The border is moving meter by meter. No one knows what to do because any act of resistance could trigger another full Russian occupation.”

Inspired by true events, “Shindisi” follows a handful of residents in the Georgian village of the same name, who decide not to evacuate after news comes that the Russian military is preparing to invade. The villagers come to the aid of Georgian soldiers ambushed by a Russian general who has decided to ignore the news that ceasefire negotiations were underway.

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Playing to acclaim at the Warsaw and Shanghai film festivals,...

The 35th Warsaw Film Festival has concluded and the list of winners includes a few Asian and Asian-related titles.

Grand Prix was awarded to Georgian movie “Shindisi” portraying real-life events that happened in 2008 during Russo-Georgian war, when Russian forces violated the ceasefire. It goes beyond military affairs, focusing also on the civilians, who with simple humane courage and compassion attempt to save lives of several wounded Georgian soldiers. Dito Tsintsadze, who helmed the movie, also took honours of the best director. “Shindisi” is a Georgian candidate for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

A Hairy Tale

Iranian “A Hairy Tale” by Homayoun Ghanizadeh got the Special Jury Award for the Best Script. The renowned avant-garde theatre director in his debut feature skillfully plays with the form and conventions. Under the facade of a black comedy about eccentric employees of a barber shop, he tells a story...

The Georgian film Shindisi was awarded the Grand Prix of the 35th Warsaw International Film Festival, which drew to a close Sunday in the Polish capital. The pic's Dito Tsintsadze took home best director honors.

Shindisi, a harrowing story based on true events, is Georgia's submission for consideration in the international feature film Oscar category.

A Hairy Tale by Iranian director Homayoun Ghanizadeh collected the special jury award.

The jury of the 1-2 competition, which recognized directors' first and second feature efforts, gave its award to Move the Grave, which was helmed by South Korea's Seung-o Jeong.

The U.S. film ...

The Georgian film Shindisi was awarded the Grand Prix of the 35th Warsaw International Film Festival, which drew to a close Sunday in the Polish capital. The pic's Dito Tsintsadze took home best director honors.

Shindisi, a harrowing story based on true events, is Georgia's submission for consideration in the international feature film Oscar category.

A Hairy Tale by Iranian director Homayoun Ghanizadeh collected the special jury award.

The jury of the 1-2 competition, which recognized directors' first and second feature efforts, gave its award to Move the Grave, which was helmed by South Korea's Seung-o Jeong.

The U.S. film ...

Shindisi is the name of the sleepy village where director Dito Tsintsadze’s passionately told tale of soldiers and civilians is set, a story made all the more poignant because it is taken from a real-life incident from the brief Russo-Georgian War of August 2008. For those turned off by war films, this is not your typical macho fantasy, though there is a long and well-filmed sequence of shooting, shelling, torching and grenades. But the pic’s real focus is on the compassion and bravery of the villagers who risked their lives to rescue wounded Georgian troops.

Though its prime ...

Every year since its creation in 1956, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) invites the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue and that was released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2018 and 30 September 2019.

Here are the Asian Submissions for Best Foreign Language Film. There are some excellent movies in this bunch and we have seen and reviewed already some of them.

Afghanistan

“Hava, Maryam, Ayesha” by Sahraa Karimi

Hava, Maryam, Ayesha

Armenia

“Lengthy Night” by Edgar Baghdasaryan

Lenghty Night

Bangladesh

“Alpha” by Nasiruddin Yousuff

Alpha

Cambodia

“In The Life of Music” by Caylee So and Sok Visal

In The Life of Music

China

“Ne Zha” by Jiaozi

Ne Zha

Georgia

“Shindisi...

Germany has chosen Nora Fingscheidt’s “System Crasher” as its entry for the newly re-branded International Feature Film award at the 92nd Academy Awards, it was announced Wednesday by promotional body German Films.

Produced by Kineo Filmproduktion and Weydemann Bros, the film won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, where it received its world premiere in February, and has since gone on to be a fixture on the festival circuit picking up a number of other prizes. It stars Helena Zengel as nine-year-old Benni, whose untamed energy in her wild quest for love drives everyone around her to despair.

The film was chosen from a list of seven films, submitted by their producers, by the eight members of the German selection committee, which consists of representatives from eight German cinema trade associations and institutions. German Films organizes the selection procedure for the German candidate for the Oscars’ International...