Kenyan filmmaker Vincho Nchogu makes her feature directorial debut with the pastoral drama “One Woman One Bra,” a story of womanhood, community and the struggle to reshape African narratives that debuts...

More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict that embroiled...

Yemeni Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq, who was Oscar-nominated in 2012 for her short documentary “Karama Has No Walls,” is in post-production on her fiction feature debut, “The Station,” which the director...

Award-winning Portuguese auteur João Pedro Rodrigues (“Will-O’-the-Wisp”) is developing his next feature, the Luca Guadagnino-produced “Afonso’s Smile,” a coming-of-age story about a teenage boy who discovers his sexuality amid the upheaval of...

Argentine director Luis Ortega, whose last feature “Kill the Jockey” premiered in competition at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, returns to the Lido with his next film, “Magnetized,” which he’ll be...

A young soprano trying to keep her hearing loss a secret ahead of a make-or-break performance is at the center of “Maya Butterfly,” the feature debut of Irish filmmaker Edwina Casey, a...

Emily Atef, the acclaimed German-born French Iranian filmmaker behind 2023 Berlin Golden Bear contender “Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything,” is in post-production on her next film, the Kenya-set female-empowerment drama...

Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia (“Nafi’s Father”) is in post-production on “Legacy,” a documentary that follows students at a legendary West African dance school. The director will be presenting the film...