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This story contains an image of the film poster.  Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai is still being harassed online, though it’s been months since the director tweeted a poster for her documentary short that depicted the Hindu goddess Kali holding a Pride flag and smoking a cigarette. At the time, the Indian director …

The longtime executive director of Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival is leaving for another job. The board announced Wednesday that Tammy Frick is departing. She has accepted a position in Toronto as chief executive officer (CEO) of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Her last day at Cinéfest will be …

Director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema, died on Tuesday aged 91, newspaper Liberation and other French media said, citing relatives of the filmmaker. Godard was among the world’s most acclaimed directors, known for such classics as Breathless and Contempt, which pushed cinematic boundaries and inspired iconoclastic …

Canadian-born and Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis is under house arrest in Italy after a woman accused him of sexual assault on Sunday. Haggis, 69, is in Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a town in the southern Italian region of Puglia. The office of prosecutors …

There’s a moment in Crimes of the Future where surgical performance artist Saul Tenser returns home to show off his latest addition — a fleshy zipper installed across his abdomen.  Caprice, Saul’s partner, is clearly excited by the possibilities. As she begins licking the opening, Saul grunts: “Don’t spill it.”  …

Mucormycosis has become a great concern in India as the country has been witnessing a surge in cases of this fungal infection in the second wave of Covid-19 but recently AIIMS Director stated that the rise in cases is not because of its transmission from one person to another. AIIMS …