The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) will honor Japanese filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu with its Cinema Honorary Award and has named Korean director Yim Soon-rye jury head of its Asian Feature Film Competition. The 37th edition of SGIFF runs Oct. 21 to Nov. 1. Kore-eda will attend a special presentation of “Look Back” on Oct. 24,
Bollywood star Rani Mukerji has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Australia’s La Trobe University for three decades of work in Indian cinema and her contributions off screen, the university said. She is the second Indian film figure to receive the distinction, after superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s honor in 2019. “Receiving this honorary
