Palestinian stories set for major presence at 2027 Oscars
Palestinian stories are reaching global audiences through cinema, with a record number expected to get Oscar nominations next year. Al Jazeera spoke to the director and cast of Who Is Still Alive, Switzerland’s 2027 Oscar entry for Best International Feature.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports on the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital
Row erupts at SRFTI over denial of entry to filmmaker Ronny Sen. SRFTI has been on the boil since September 27, when a clash broke out between a section of students and members of a right-wing organisation who were holding an event inside the institute’s auditorium
, others shine at Global AMR Awards. Asia-Pacific followed with 134 entries, while Europe and the Americas recorded 28 and 27 entries, respectively.
The group commended the Service’s new era of rule-of-law compliance, judicial respect, and victim compensation, adding that the honour has validated modernisation of Nigeria’s intelligence architecture
Filipino entry, pop and rap song Sobra-Sobra, takes 19-year-old to victory at grand final in Bangkok Carmelle Collado has won the first Eurovision song contest Asia, taking the Philippines’ entry, Sobra-Sobra, to victory in Bangkok on Saturday night, at the first regional edition of the contest to be staged outside Europe. Eleven countries competed at the One Bangkok Forum in central Bangkok, and the show ran for two and a half hours including advertising.
The Oscar winner plays a singer turned detective searching for her niece in an overly generic Nashville-based mystery that fails to find its footing Given the popularity of its music and the streaming services’ interest in faith-based programming, I’m always a little surprised that there aren’t more movies and TV shows about Nashville. Netflix seems to be aiming for some of those complexities with Heartland, a patchy neo-noir thriller starring Jessica Chastain as a washed-up former star turned vigilante detective with an axe to grind on Music Row.