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Richard Gere and wife Alejandra are enjoying a night out at the 2024 Zurich Film Festival!

The 75-year-old Pretty Woman actor and his wife, 41, showed off some cute Pda on the green carpet at the premiere of Wisdom of Happiness on Tuesday (October 8) held at Corso in Zurich, Switzerland.

For the premiere, Richard looked sharp in a black tux while Alejandra donned a cream and silver sparkling dress.

Keep reading to find out more…Richard serves as an executive producer for Wisdom of Happiness, which was co-directed by the Swiss filmmakers Barbara Miller and Philip Delaquis.

“In this film, the Dalai Lama speaks directly to the audience and explains why the 21st century should become the century of compassion. The spiritual teacher manages to captivate us and touch our hearts – even those which have turned into stone from stress and the toughness of everyday life. A meditative cinematic experience that reverberates...

Exclusive: The Zurich Film Festival has set Richard Gere as a star guest for its 20th anniversary edition which runs October 3-13. Gere will attend the world premiere of Swiss documentary Wisdom of Happiness on which he is an executive producer. Deadline has the first trailer from the film which features the Dalai Lama as he speaks directly to the audience, creating what is billed “a meditative cinema experience that resonates long after.” Check out the trailer above.

In Zurich, Gere will be accompanied by fellow exec producer Oren Moverman as well as the Dalai Lama’s sister, Jetsun Pema and the Prime Minister of Tibet in Exile, Sikyong Penpa Tsering. Also in attendance will be the directors, Barbara Miller and Philip Delaquis, as well as director of photography Manuel Bauer. Autlook Filmsales is handling the global rights to the film, including the U.S.

Wisdom of Happiness is described...

A nationwide referendum is to be held in Switzerland on May 15 on a proposed law that would force streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video to re-invest 4 of their local revenues in Swiss film and TV productions.

Dubbed “Lex Netflix,” the Swiss law –– which is modeled on European regulations that don’t apply in the country as it’s not part of the E.U. –– is sparking plenty of controversy.

“Lex Netflix” is being opposed by Swiss groups of different political stripes who say it goes against the principles of the country’s fiercely free-market economy. In a similar vein, Swiss consumer orgs say they fear that investment obligations will prompt streamers to raise subscription fees so that consumers will end up footing the bill for what they consider to be handouts to producers.

“We have the greatest respect for the democratic decision-making of the Swiss people, and we will...

Over the weekend, Breast Cancer Research Foundation held its annual Symposium & Awards Luncheon in a virtual format for the first time.

Nearly 1,100 attendees joined from around the world to hear directly from esteemed breast cancer experts about the latest strides in research that Bcrf is funding, and to honor some of the incredible people making that research possible. The inspiring afternoon raised a record-breaking $3 million to ensure that, even in the midst of global crisis, Bcrf’s international legion of leading scientists can continue their lifesaving work.

Maria & Larry Baum were honored with the Sandra Taub Humanitarian Award in recognition of their leadership of the annual Hamptons Paddle for Pink event, which has cumulatively raised $11 million for Bcrf since 2012. Nobel Prize winner William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD received the Jill Rose Award for Scientific Excellence. Guests were treated to a gorgeous musical performance by Broadway star, breast cancer survivor, and...

As much as we have confronted rape culture and the patriarchal control of female bodies, there is still an area that has too often remained untouchable in the conversation: the specific roles religious and cultural norms have played in the persecution, abuse and suppression of women’s sexuality. That is where director Barbara Miller squares her uncompromising new film, “#Female Pleasure.”

Miller somewhat wobblily opens the documentary with images of objectified women in recognizable male-designer commercials and ads, highlighting how mainstream culture has long normalized the problem. But then, she takes audiences across the world to illuminate the condemnation of female sexuality as the international pandemic that it is. This is where “#Female Pleasure” soars.

The filmmaker presents the stories of five different but equally courageous women in various countries: Deborah Feldman from Brooklyn, Vitika Yadav in India, Rokudenashiko in Japan, Leyla Hussein in the Somali Muslim diaspora, and Doris Wagner in Europe,...

"Will you raise your voice? Are you brave enough?" Abramorama has debuted an official Us trailer for the acclaimed "European breakout" documentary #Female Pleasure from director Barbara Miller (Forbidden Voices). The inspiring, bold doc film "shows the universal mechanisms at work that determine the position of women until today, spanning cultures, religions and continents: from Japan and India and the Somali Muslim diaspora to the Hasidic community in Brooklyn and the Catholic clergy in Europe. [Each came] to the same conclusion: the female body is subjected to male lust and first and foremost is meant for procreation, without any regard for female sexual pleasure and autonomy." Time to change that. This doc encourages the empowerment women, focusing specifically on their shared interest in sexual pleasure. Showing us "how courage, strength, and zest for life can indeed alter societal structures." Here's the official trailer (+ posters) for Barbara Miller's doc #Female Pleasure, direct from...

#Female Pleasure Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Barbara Miller Screenwriter: Barbara Miller Cast: Deborah Feldman, Leyla Hussein, Rokudenashiko, Doris Wagner, Yithika Yadav Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/23/19 Opens: October 18, 2019 During the Age of Aquarius in America, Joan Baez would sing “Hard is the fortune […]

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Last year, for the first time in its 25-year history, the Hot Docs film festival achieved gender parity in its slate, at a time when many other large cinema organizations were just signing – or still working towards – their versions of 50/50 by 2020, the influential gender equality model for film funding launched by the Swedish Film Institute in 2012.

This year, a whopping 54% of the 234 Hot Doc titles are female-led, from high-profile films like Rachel Lears’ “Knock Down the House,” Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s “One Child Nation,” and Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy,” to provocative buzz docs such as Rama Rau’s “The Daughter Tree,” Maya Newell’s “In My Blood It Runs,” and Barbara Miller’s “#Female Pleasure.”

“Hot Docs’ audience is 67% female—we are representative of our community,” said director of programming Shane Smith. “Getting to gender parity wasn’t that difficult. When you are actually looking...

For the second edition of the Changing Face of Europe, a collaboration between the Hot Docs film festival (April 25-May 5) and European Film Promotion (Efp), 10 European documentaries will offer Toronto audiences a provocative and kaleidoscopic portrait of the cultural forces shaping the continent today.

The program is a study in both intimate, personal stories and the wide-angle view they can bring to the world. “Filmmakers are both looking outwards, but also looking inwards through the lens of the self to see a greater perspective,” says Shane Smith, the festival’s director of programming. “The most resonant stories are the most personal, in a lot of ways. And that’s the skill of these filmmakers: telling a personal story … that someone half a world away can connect with.”

Some of those personal stories reflect the political and cultural cross-currents sweeping across Europe today. Danish director Marie Skovgaard’s “The Reformist — A...

Now in its tenth year, the UK festival is to open with Momcilo Mrdakovic’s Mamarosh [pictured].

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has unveiled its full programme for this year’s tenth anniversary.

Momcilo Mrdakovic’s Mamarosh will receive its UK premiere as the opening film on Sept 17, one of 19 UK premieres and six world premieres at this year’s festival. Other UK premieres at the festival include Feo Aladag’s Inbetween Worlds and Barbara Miller’s Forbidden Voices.

The festival will close on Sept 21 with a preview of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.

Coinciding with the referendum for an independent Scotland and with Berwick-upon-Tweed the border town between England and Scotland, this year’s edition will have a theme of “Border Crossing”.

For the full lineup, visit the festival’s website.

The 13th edition of the Open Frame festival organised by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (Psbt) will be held from September 11 – 21, 2013. The event focuses on the documentaries made by women, on women. The festival aims to inspire, encourage and bring about awareness on women’s issues through discussions and conversations between the audiences and the filmmakers. The festival will be held at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

For more details see here.

The festival is divided in two parts: a) Film screening and discussions, b) Workshops

Workshops:

Film Appreciation Workshops: Film Appreciation by Prof. Suresh and Documentary Film Appreciation by Prof. Ajit Duara

Intensive Filmmaking Workshops: Aesthetics For Non-Fiction Filmmaking by Prof. Ajit Duara, Essentials Of Documentary Filmmaking by Rajiv Mehrotra and Aspects Of Documentary – Facts And Fictions by Sameera Jain

List of films:

13 September, Friday

10:00 Am – Beyond Women’s Stereotypes

Director: Bindu Nair / India / 2004

10:45 Am – The Grey Area...