SkyShowtime & Polsat Team Up For Polish Remake Of ‘High Potential’ Starring Agnieszka Dygant

When Nakadai Tatsuya, one of Japan’s most celebrated actors, decided that his young student’s surname was too dull for the stage, he reached for an unlikely inspiration. Hashimoto Koji — as the actor was called then — had been working at a Tokyo municipal office before auditioning for Nakadai’s acting school. The word for such […]

Hungarian election winner Péter Magyar is set to travel to Italy’s Riviera International Film Festival on May 5 to attend the international premiere of of documentary “Spring Wind – The Awakening.” The doc charts the political journey that culminated with his historic April 12 victory in the country’s general elections. Directed by Tamás Yvan Topolánszky, […]

Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, who co-created “For All Mankind” and now its spin-off “Star City” with Ronald D. Moore, are adamant that people are dreaming of space exploration again. “With the Artemis II launch that just happened, I felt that excitement again. It wasn’t about space tourism; it wasn’t about the wealthy. It was […]

Program director Yi Wang discusses the program for the seventh edition, the fest's growth since its launch during the COVID pandemic and how the past can elucidate the future.