The Cannes Film Festival, which opened this week, will include a special screening of the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” in memory of its late director, Malik Bendjelloul. Bendjelloul, 36, committed suicide and was found dead in his Stockholm apartment on Tuesday. His brother, Johar Bendjelloul, confirmed the manner of death and told the [...]

  HR Giger, the Swiss artist who innovated the lexicon of conceptual design for Hollywood films, has died today. He was 74. The preternatural visions that live on have been germinating, serpentine, for the last 35 years in a cinephiliac collective unconscious.  One can say the artist’s work was an artificial channel for conducting nightmares [...]

    Our recent acquisition, “528 New York” (2014) is a short film about a disconnected group of individuals living in the bustling metropolis known as the Big Apple. It is an objective, clinical study of how varying ethnic communities – specifically the Korean, African-American, Causasian and Middle-Eastern groups interact – or fail to communicate [...]

It takes a certain level of conviction to stay true to one’s roots when balancing the demands of a bustling metropolis. The filmmaker  Yared Zeleke is an Ethiopian storyteller who swims against the current, making films that detail his experiences back home and abroad. His first feature, currently in development, was selected as one of [...]