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The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is to hold retrospectives of Croatian-German documentarian Katja Raganelli and Ukrainian auteur Sergii Masloboishchykov as part of its 2025 Focus programme.

Katja Raganelli’s work on public television, often aired only once and now largely faded from view, focused on the history of women in filmmaking. It includes: Margery Wilson – Vom Stummfilmstar Hollywoods zur Filmregisseurin (1996), Valie Export – Portrait einer Filmregisseurin (1981), and Die Liebe ist ein Mythos – Delpine Seyrig (1978).

The Focus programme will also present Raganelli’s portraits of figures like Agnès Varda, Márta Mészáros, Valie Export, Alice Guy-Blaché and Lotte Reiniger.

Sergii Masloboishchykov’s retrospective...

U.S. indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry’s long-awaited work Videoheaven, celebrating video stores in Hollywood cinema, will world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

The film, which has been more than a decade in the making, comes hot on the heels of Pavements, which debuted at Venice this year, and follows festival hits such as Listen Up Philip and Her Smell.

The Videoheaven world premiere was announced by Rotterdam as part of one of four Focus strands in its 54th edition, running from January 30 to February 9, 2025.

The film will be unveiled in a Focus strand entitled “Hold Video in Your Hand”, celebrating the community spirit of VHS culture.

Other works in the selection include Rotterdam filmmaker Gyz’s Videotheek Marco, an investigation into local video store history and connected audiovisual activities like community television.

The program also includes Indian documentary Videokaaran (2011) and David Cronenberg’s latest work The Shrouds...

One of cinema's early comediennes, Dorothy Devore: between 1918 and 1930, the Ft. Worth-born actress was seen in nearly 100 movies, both features and shorts. Among them were 'Salvation Sue,' 'Naughty Mary Brown' and 'Saving Sister Susie,' all with frequent partner Earle Rodney. 'Comediennes of the Silent Era' & film historian Anthony Slide at the American Cinematheque Film historian and author Anthony Slide, once described by Lillian Gish as “our preeminent historian of the silent film,” will attend the American Cinematheque's 2017 Retroformat program “Comediennes of the Silent Era” on Sat., May 6, at 7:30 p.m., at the Spielberg Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Slide will be signing copies of his book She Could Be Chaplin!: The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell (University Press of Mississippi), about the largely forgotten pioneering comedy actress of the 1910s and early 1920s. The book signing will take place at 6:30 p.

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Taking a ‘selfie’ has turned into the hottest trend of 2014. But one thing that’s always been hot is the WWE divas. Combine selfies together with the WWE’s finest female talent and you have a recipe for a visual delight. Everyone from Natalya to Lana are prettying themselves up in front of their mirrors, before raising their iPhone for the obligatory selfie snap. For us fans this has transformed the way we look at WWE Divas. Forget buying special diva magazines, now all you need to do is follow your favourite girls on Twitter or Instagram. It’s one of the great things about social media, fans are getting closer (and seeing far more) of their favourite WWE performers than ever before!

Here we look at the 25 hottest diva selfies to ever grace our computer screens. We start with number 25 right at the top of the page, Natalya...