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Taika Waititi approves of the Et Canada team’s fashion sense

On Sunday, the director premiered his comedy “Next Goal Wins” at the Toronto International Film Festival, and our own Carlos Bustamante caught up with him on the red carpet.

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“What does it mean for you to be premiering this story here?” Bustamante asked.

“Whenever you get to see people like yourself and people who represent your culture and cultures related to your culture, it’s really important.”

‌”It was important because we shot the film a few years ago, we had a delay with the pandemic, and finally people get to see it, and it’s a film I’m really proud of,” Waititi said. “Coming from New Zealand and being able to showcase Pacific Islanders on screen, whenever you...

Three months. That’s how long it took for HQ Trivia to go from unknown mobile game to household name with a record 2.38 million users at once. Now, six years later, a new documentary, Glitch: The Rise And Fall Of HQ Trivia, aims to tell the scandalous behind-the-scenes story of HQ Trivia’s journey from a zeitgeisty app to a corporate disaster. But days after the first trailer was posted, the documentary was embroiled in its own scandal online: a mishmash of accusations, callouts, and digs that director Salima Koroma...

Sundance prize winner Sofia Alaoui, Yemeni-Scottish Oscar-nominee Sara Ishaq and Emmy-feted Egyptian cinematographer Muhammad Hamdy will be among filmmakers presenting projects at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event, unfolding in Qatar March 10-15.

The nine edition of the talent incubator aimed at Dfi grantee filmmakers will showcase 44 projects from 23 countries as it returns as a physical event for the first time since 2019.

Moroccan-French director Alaoui, who won Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision for her fantasy drama Animalia in January, attends with a new series which is in development.

Titled Let The Earth Burn, it revolves around a police academy graduate who is posted to a remote town in the Atlas Mountains despite coming top of her year.

Ishaq, who was Oscar-nominated for short film Karama Has No Walls, will present her second feature project The Station set against a women-only gas station in a gender-segregated village in war-torn Yemen.

This year’s edition takes place in-person March 10-15 and online March 19-21.

The Doha Film Institute (Dfi) has revealed the 44 projects that will participate in the ninth edition of its annual talent incubator Qumra which takes place in-person March 10-15 and online March 19-21.

The selected projects come from 23 different countries and comprise 14 feature narratives, 12 feature documentaries, seven series and 11 shorts.

Two feature debuts from Oscar-nominated filmmakers are among the participants. Motherhood from Meryam Joobeur, whose Ikhwène was nominated for best live-action short in 2020, and The Station from Sara Ishaq, whose Karma Has No Walls was nominated for best...

New Delhi, Dec 29 (Ians) Emulating their senior compatriots, the Indian Junior Women’s and Men’s hockey teams had much to celebrate about in 2022 with some memorable outings in the international calendar.

While the Women, got the nation to rally behind them in the Fih Junior Hockey Women’s World Cup in Potchefstroom, South Africa when they gave nemesis England a close run for their money in the Bronze Medal, the Indian Junior Men’s team lifted the prestigious Sultan of Johor Cup.

At the Fih Junior Hockey Women’s World Cup, the Salima Tete-led squad were on song beating Wales 5-1, Germany 2-1, Malaysia 4-0 in the pool D group stage matches. Taking on a strong Korean side in the Quarter Final, the team rose to the occasion as they beat Korea 3-0.

In the Semifinal, though the team lost to Netherlands, who went on to win the title,...

New Delhi Aug 19 (Ians) In recent years, the Indian Women’s Hockey Team has gone on to become one of the most memorable chapters in the country’s sporting history. Often considered as underdogs at the highest level, the Indian Women’s Hockey Team has consistently punched well above their weight category, giving the fans plenty to cheer about.

One of the youngest players in the Indian set-up, Salima Tete has been instrumental in the team’s success stories in the last half-decade or so, and of course, she hopes to be central to many more moments of glory.

On Episode 30 of Hockey Te Charcha, Salima Tete, who was part of the Bronze medal winning team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, looks back at her journey and more. Salima, who is now back in her home town in Simdega in Jharkhand after a very long season, explained that ahead...