The film festival went largely online during the pandemic. There were more than 16,000 submissions this year, and nearly half of the films featured are made by first-time filmmakers.
Based on an actual criminal case in France in which a Senegalese woman killed her baby daughter, Alice Diop's film is rigorous, powerful and crackling with ideas about isolation and colonialism.
The new thriller Missing unfolds on the screens of a teenager searching for her vanished mother. But the growth of what should be a simple format turns out to be ... complicated.
Search and rescue crews looked for Sands in the area of the San Gabriel Mountains, but had to suspend the ground search because of trail conditions and avalanche risks.
Gina Lollobrigida melted the hearts of major stars in the 1950s and '60s: Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Burt Lancaster. She was a voluptuous brunette with captivating brown eyes.
"Lollo," as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" after the title of one of her movies.
NPR's A Martinez speaks with Director James Cameron about "Avater: The Way of Water," the long-awaited sequel to his 2009 science-fiction blockbuster, "Avatar."