As 2024 draws to a close, Deadline's film critics have each chosen their Top 3 international movies of the year. A trio of those selected recently made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — though not all titles below were put forth by their country of origin. Overall, as Deadline's Awards…

An elderly woman turns to a camera over her shoulder and, staring into the lens, says without self-pity, "I'm dying." Incarcerated men, unaccustomed to wearing suits and ties, anxiously adjust their attire in preparation for a daddy-daughter dance behind bars. A drag performance artist walks through…

The independent film fall festival love affair with moviegoers continues with A Real Pain posting the year's third best per screen average. Anora continues its standout run as does Conclave. The Ralph Fiennes-starring Vatican thriller is no. 4 at the box office in week 2. A24’s We Live In Time is no…

Indie releases from limited (Memoir of a Snail) to wide (Conclave) are testing an increasingly lively specialty box office heading into awards season with a handful of decorated documentaries this week including Dahomey, Black Box Diaries, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock and A New Kind of Wilderness and some…

Senegal has selected French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop's Golden Bear-winning contemporary doc Dahomey as its submission for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. Dahomey had its North American premiere at TIFF this week. The film will have its U.S. bow this weekend at the…

Cannes' two top prizewinners, Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light (Grand Prize) and Sean Baker's Anora (Palme d'Or) are among 32 features from 18 countries set for the New York Film Festival's Main Slate, unveiled today. Other titles at the venerable New York City mainstay include Roberto…

EXCLUSIVE: After clinching the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2019 with her debut fiction feature Atlantics, French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop had one burning desire.  "My dream was to set up a film school in Dakar," she tells Deadline.  Diop made history that year in Cannes as the first Black…

Somebody — or something — is speaking from inside a timber crate. "It's so dark in here… a night so deep and opaque" read the subtitles; the voice is speaking in Fon, the local language of the West African country that was once called Dahomey and is now Benin. As the slats are nailed down, the voice is…

The first-ever edition of AfroBerlin put Africa in the spotlight at the Berlin Film Festival and in one key session asked how festivals, streamers, and the wider industry can — and should — support films and filmmakers from the continent. AfroBerlin took over the conference center next to the…

"The first shape I had in mind for this film was fiction," filmmaker Mati Diop told a Berlin Film Festival presser this morning when quizzed on the structure of her inventive documentary Dahomey.  The doc — which screens in the Berlinale competition this afternoon — borrows its name from the former…