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Curtains down on Morocco’s ramshackle cinemas

CASABLANCA — They won’t be playing it again at this Casablanca cinema. Rabi Derraj gazed despondently at the ramshackle 1940s movie house, its doors blocked

Safety is king at Robinsons Movieworld

Lights, camera, action! Nothing compares to the larger-than-life cinematic experience. Robinsons Movieworld is back, and they are leveling up by intensifying safety measures to ensure moviegoers

Roving cinema plays public service role in Central Africa

Some 200 villagers avidly take in an evening of films thanks to a traveling cinema team with the dual goal of entertaining and enlightening.

Parents in US concerned about too much sex, nudity in PG-13 films — survey

Half of parents surveyed believe that the F-word and graphic sex scenes appear “too often” in PG-13 films.

After ‘Mary Shelley’, pioneering Saudi female director keen to film back home

Fresh from shooting her first film in English, Haifaa al-Mansour plans to return to her native Saudi Arabia next month for her new project — but

Art of cinema comes alive in basement of Iraq aficionado

One man screens old films in his basement in Iraq as culture in the country has taken a hit due to violence.

Social realism and a ‘new voice’ in Nigerian cinema

A low budget comedy set in the working class suburbs of Nigeria’s capital, Ema Edosio’s debut film “Kasala!” is a world away from the usual

Chinese film director delves long and deep into lives on the margins

Itinerant workers, abandoned children, forgotten victims of Mao-era re-education camps: all find space in Wang Bing’s lengthy cinematic explorations of life on China’s margins. “The

‘The First Impulse’ is stranger, sadder–and better–than fiction

Sometimes, something breathtakingly beautiful can come from something horribly tragic without irony or artifice. Such is the case with the book “The First Impulse” by