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Industry speakers at festival include ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ director Jasmila Zbanic, former Marvel exec Karim Zreik.

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) has selected 26 feature film projects for its Red Sea Souk Project Market; plus a Work-in-Progress showcase, and speakers for its 360° industry events programme.

The 26 Souk projects hail from Africa and the Arab region. Titles include Djeliya, Memory Of Manding, a documentary from Burkinabe filmmaker Boubacar Sangare, whose third film A Golden Life played at the Berlinale earlier this year.

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Also included is Scandar Copti’s animated documentary A Childhood,...

After viewing the impressive trailer for the last episode in the fifth and final season of Fox’s “Gotham”, it appears that the Dark Knight has finally arrived to protect the city.

Sadly, on April 25th the hit Fox super-hero series will be coming to an end, but they are most definitely going out with a bang. The footage from the final episode looks absolutely breath-taking. Check it out below:

The episode is aptly titled “In The Beginning” and takes us on a ten year time jump into the future.

When a crime wave strikes the city, Gordon suspects that the Penguin and the Riddler are behind the crime spree. The city will have to pin its hopes on an unexpected ally… you guess it, Batman, who we should be seeing in his iconic costume in this final episode.

Although the “Gotham” series will be coming to an end on Fox,...

At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar: "I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches of Brazil comes Adrift, known as À Deriva in Portuguese, the third film from Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia. I’m going to say right up front — following in the footsteps of City of God director Fernando Meirelles, Dhalia is the next great Brazilian filmmaker on the verge of breaking out. Adrift is his calling card, a gorgeous family drama about a beautiful young girl and her parents. It’s not a masterpiece, but it is definitely one of the better films I’ve seen here that offers so much to fall in love with, whether it be the actors, cinematography, or story." *** In Time, Richard Corliss on director-writer Sam Raimi (above, top photo) and co-writer Ivan Raimi...

Dallas Theater Center, in association with Smu Meadows School of the Arts, presents In the Beginning, an adaptation of the first 10 chapters of the Book of Genesis, featuring the newly announced Dtc acting company, and directed by artistic director Kevin Moriarty. In the Beginning runs Jan. 21-Feb. 15 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. Presenting familiar stories from Genesis - the creation of the world, Adam and Eve in Eden, jealousy and murder among brothers, the world's destruction by water - In the Beginning offers a fresh retelling of age-old tales interspersed with engaging dialogue taken directly from conversations with local community members and respected religious scholars about the text. "In the Beginning does not present a single, definitive interpretation of the stories we find in Genesis," Moriarty says. "Rather, it is a reflection of the conversations we've had with people of faith throughout our community about the text and the personal...