Nick Vivarelli

As violence from the civil war in Syria increasingly spills over into neighboring Lebanon, filmmaker Jocelyne Saab is launching the second edition of the Intl. Cultural Resistance Festival, which will...

With Cannes past its midpoint, a major guessing game on the Croisette is: What's going to Venice? It's a bit premature, because Venice topper Alberto Barbera and his team have...

Nine projects by first or second-time directors have made the cut for the Torino Film Lab's FrameWork program, the development workshop affiliated with Italy's Torino Film Festival. They are: "Aleli"...

Eva Longoria, Paz Vega and Claudia Cardinale will be honored by Italy's Taormina Film Festival where female movie stars and icons will play a prominent role in celebrating the event's...

After a period of hiatus due to Egypt's political turbulence the Cairo Film Festival is back with a new director, a new concept and a new time slot. The 36th...

Italian director Alice Rohrwacher at 32 is the youngest Italian to vie for a Palme d'Or in recent memory, with her "Le Meraviglie," which screened Saturday, only her second work....

Italian digital distributor Nexo Digital is making its first foray as an international distributor at Cannes where it is selling selected territories on the digitally restored version of "A Hard...

Harvey Weinstein is talking about making a docu depicting Syrian refugee camps, but Ossama Mohammed, an outspoken critic of Bashar al-Assad's regime, has already made one about Syrian atrocities, "Silvered...

Italian horror master Dario Argento will be among guests of the Locarno Film Festival where his first film, trend-setting slasher "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage," will screen as part...

"Jews of Egypt - End of a Journey" (pictured) a sequel to Egyptian director Amir Ramses' widely well-received 2012 docu " Jews of Egypt ," about one of the darkest...