Mexican actress Ilse Salas, winner of Mexico’s Best Actress Ariel Award for “The Good Girls” (“Las niñas bien”), will lead the cast of the Quijote Films wry dramedy “To Die on Your Feet” (“Morir de Pie”), which has been pitched this week at the Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid. This is the second fiction
Late girlhood has a sacredness that can’t be replicated. It’s a particular time in life between innocence and adulting, allowing young women to swing between the two. Jocelyn Bioh’s sensational play, “School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play,” captures this magic and anguish, set against the specificity of mid-1980s Ghana. Directed by Whitney White,
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Marc Jacobs is going cinematic this fall. For its Fall 2026 campaign, the fashion house enlisted Jemima Kirke and Rowan Blanchard to star in “The Swap,” a scripted micro-drama that turns an accidental handbag
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for orchestrating sex involving children is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday on separate state convictions for hauling girls through a community in northern Arizona in an unventilated trailer. Samuel Bateman, 50, was convicted of three child abuse counts stemming from an
Afghan school boys wear Taliban-imposed uniforms of turbans and long tunics in a school in Herat. The government has put more focus on religious education since returning to power on August 15, 2021. Mohsen Karimi/AFP/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mohsen Karimi/AFP/via Getty Images By Grade 11, Hashmat Mubariz had stopped attending school regularly.
Girls return home from school in Fayzabad, Afghanistan. Girls are allowed to go to primary school until they are 11 or 12 years old, but are barred from secondary school and university.Credit: Omer Abrar/AFP/Getty This week marks five years since the Taliban marched back into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. It is nearly four years since girls
