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Melina León at her Lima apartment with some of the awards she got for her debut film, “Song Without a Name.”

Peruvian filmmaker Melina León boosts Peru’s film industry with strong female leads

Arts, Culture & Media

With Peru’s current political upheaval as a backdrop, award-winning filmmaker Melina León is developing new projects. Her latest feature film will tell the difficult story of a young Indigenous woman living with epilepsy.

A film still of physicist Alexander Vilenkin from the set of "Dau". He was flown to Kharkov for a week to play the role of a scientist in the movie.

This movie about a Soviet scientist may be the grandest experiment in film history, if it ever gets finished

Arts
Actor Gerard Depardieu

Cannes is buzzing over Gerard Depardieu’s performance in ‘Welcome to New York’

Check out these four ‘must see’ foreign films of 2013

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The Pink Panthers’ Hollywood-Style Heists

Conflict & Justice

New indie movie ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ looks at disaster through child’s eyes

Arts, Culture & Media

In Benh Zeitlin’s first film, he transports audiences to a Louisiana fairy tale land eerily similar to pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans. The movie follows the life of a 6-year-old, as the life she knows is built up and then torn apart.

Renowned actor Williem Dafoe discusses recent films, acting past

Arts, Culture & Media

Willem Dafoe has had a remarkable, 30-year career that’s seen him nominated for Academy Awards. But this year, this spring even, he’s particularly prolific.

Reinventing the Critic

Arts, Culture & Media

Arts critics are forced to get resourceful when their old funding sources dry up.

Cannes Film Festival on a budget

Arts, Culture & Media

How is the film industry’s most lavish event is keeping its shine amidst the global economic downturn?

Iranian-American Band The Yellow Dogs Leave Tehran for Brooklyn, and Greater Freedom

Arts, Culture & Media

The members of The Yellow Dogs fled Tehran’s underground rock scene after being featured in a movie about that scene. They’re now based in Brooklyn, touring the US, and living the dream.