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Jafar Panahi’s slow-burn thriller It Was Just an Accident was awarded Best Film and Best Director at the 18th #AsiaPacificScreenAwards.

The Jury Grand Prize was awarded to Lost Land, Akio Fujimoto’s moving journey of Rohingya siblings separated from family.

Story vimooz.me/sz3gmd
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Andre Gaines’ The Dutchman brings to life a modern reinvention of the 1964 play by Amiri Baraka. The film stars André Holland as Clay, a Black businessman, alongside Kate Mara as the enigmatic stranger whose appearance upends his world. #TheDutchman

read story and see trailer: vimooz.me/gf8ovv
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Teenage Wasteland the documentary by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, follows a band of high schoolers in upstate New York In the ‘90s, who, expose a toxic landfill threatening their own community. Read story and see trailer: vimooz.me/610znl
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The 33rd African Diaspora International Film Festival returns to New York City from November 28 to December 14, with a lineup of over 70 films.

The festival opens with the NY Premiere of The Dutchman starring André Holland and Kate Mara..

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November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Paul Thomas Anderson’s #OneBattleAfterAnother leads the nominations for the 2025 Astra Film Awards with 11 nominations. Tying for second place are Ryan Coogler’s #Sinners and Joachim Trier’s #SentimentalValue with 9 nominations.

story: vimooz.me/suetvq
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Set in snowy Winnipeg, the comedy-drama #TheMotherandtheBear is Johnny Ma’s new film about a mother’s journey to reconnect with her distant daughter.

The Mother and the Bear opens in theaters in the US on January 2, 2026.

Story with trailer: vimooz.me/tgiq0h
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#SeanCombsTheReckoning – Netflix reveals release date and first look trailer. The four-part documentary series from executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson examines the shocking allegations behind Sean “Diddy” Combs and his Bad Boy empire. vimooz.me/xbxi7s
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The Voice of Hind Rajab, the powerful docudrama from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania is a haunting portrait of a Palestinian child’s last call for help. #TheVoiceofHindRajab

See trailer: vimooz.me/7ou3gf
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Four friends. One capsized boat. Fourty-three hours of impossible survival. #NotWithoutHope
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Lebanese film A Sad and Beautiful World by Cyril Aris has won the Snow Leopard for Best Film, the top jury prize at the 11th Asian World Film Festival.

Left-Handed Girl by Shih-Ching Tsou walked away with the Snow Leopard Audience Award.

Story: vimooz.me/rve5nh
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
vimooz.me/pceypw | Dead Man’s Wire trailer. Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo, and Al Pacino star in Gus Van Sant’s chilling true story of 1970s hostage crisis in Indiana. #DeadMansWire
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
vimooz.me/a7680r | Nigerian singer Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known as #Wizkid is the subject of the documentary Wizkid: Long Live Lagos.

Debuts on HBO on December 11
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
vimooz.me/3oysj3 | A24 debuted the official trailer How to Make a Killing, the thriller starring Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley, Ed Harris, Topher Grace.

#HowtoMakeaKilling opens in theaters on February 20, 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
RIP. Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae icon, singer, songwriter, and The Harder They Come actor, has died at the age of 81. vimooz.me/rktw15
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
RIP. Udo Kier, the German actor celebrated for his bold, unconventional screen presence and long career, has died at the age of 81. vimooz.me/q4icfc
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
George Clooney, currently seen in Netflix’s #JayKelly, will receive Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award. | vimooz.me/0wd2g3
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ethan Hawke has been named the recipient of the Career Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards “celebrating his impressive body of work including his most recent film #BlueMoon.” #EthanHawke

Story: vimooz.me/xqvfic
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Every tiny anomaly about Michelle points to one impossible conclusion: she is not human. #Bugonia
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Fever is the body's prayer. Survival is the soul's memory. #ComeSeeMeintheGoodLight
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Seymour Hersh, the legendary Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist whose reporting has exposed some of the darkest episodes of U.S. military and intelligence history is the subject of the new documentary Cover-Up by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. #CoverUp

See trailer: vimooz.me/g3mxho
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
One impossible choice stands between twenty-three children and their hope of getting home. #TheLostBus
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Over 25 years later, the impact of the 1999 protests of the World Trade Organization are still felt today. In WTO/99, director Ian Bell puts archived footage together to link feelings of distrust from the Battle of Seattle to how we engage with politics in today. #WTO99

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November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Emphasis on the “night”. Directed by Ryan Prows, Night Patrol makes for an entertaining mix of horror thrills and commentary on police. #NightPatrol

Watch trailer: vimooz.me/nxl8ma
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Sometimes it's the littlest moments that carry the heaviest meaning. #ComeSeeMeintheGoodLight
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Her hair is gone...and so is her sense of control. #Bugonia
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM