The accounts have managed to manipulate the algorithms on major social media sites by sharing emotive and hopeful content to gain more traction. Insiders at the biggest social media companies have previously told me how posts triggering a strong reaction are more likely to go viral. When I tried to contact some of these profiles
Indie distributor Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights for documentary “For The Moon” (“Car la Lune”), directed by Éric Baudelaire, that will premiere in the Currents section of the upcoming New York Film Festival. The film is a collaborative work created with five visually impaired students at the National Institute for the Young
Soon after, they alerted police to the discovery and explained that them keeping it for themselves was not an option. “There are so many coins and bars – it would be almost impossible,” the site manager Mario told VRT. “Besides, that would be theft.” Kobe agreed: “€9m – you simply can’t keep that hidden.” The
“When you begin again, you repeat everything,” reflects experimental filmmaker Ana Vaz, thinking of her home country Brazil and the setting of her new feature, “Hanabi,” in Japan. “There’s a normalization of the state of catastrophe and disaster necessary for the system to perpetrate itself. It needs catastrophe in order to exist.” In the wake
Updated August 14, 2026 — 9:12pm,first published 2:03pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Former construction union boss John Setka made menacing posts on social media about a former CFMEU administrator, suggesting he take “anti-c— tablets”, police allege. The 61-year-old was
It took over three decades for Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski — whose debut feature “Before the Rain” won the top award in Venice in 1994 and was Oscar nominated — to direct his first documentary. But when he first heard about the nightclub fire that took dozens of lives in North Macedonia in 2025, he
