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The 74th Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its jury which includes five women; a majority in the nine-person group including President Spike Lee. The jury includes French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop whose 2019 movie Atlantics took home the Grand Prix from the festival; Crazy Heart Oscar nominated actress Maggie…

Anne Hathaway, Tahar Rahim, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig and Matthew Broderick have been set to lead the cast of She Came To Me, the romantic comedy from writer-director Rebecca Miller (Maggie's Plan). Film is a multi-generational story set against the backdrop of New York: a composer suffering from writer's block…

STX Entertainment’s The Mauritanian follows the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was unjustly jailed by the U.S. for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay for being a 9/11 plot suspect, and his attorney Nancy Hollander who crusaded against the legal system for his freedom. French actor Tahar Rahim plays Slahi and Jodie…

True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy terrorism charges as the U.S. fought an often-directionless war on terror. The story of how he came to be tracked and…

Mohamedou Ould Salahi endured unimaginable horror as an inmate of the U.S. government's notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center for more than 14 years. In all that time, no charge was ever leveled against him, and with the help of his tireless lawyer Nancy Hollander, who weathered extreme criticism for representing…

The Mauritanian asks a lot of its audience. Its central figure, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, spent years locked up at Guantanamo Bay by the U.S. government, accused but never directly convicted or charged of being a terrorist in league with and aiding those who attacked the United States on 9/11, and even confessing to that…

Though she has starred in some of the most indelible movies in cinema history—Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused—and won two Oscars for doing so, Jodie Foster's output has slowed in recent years. And it is not a paucity of roles, she says, but rather a decision to become more selective about what she…

Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Shailene Woodley are joining Benedict Cumberbatch in 30WEST-Topic Studios-BBC’s Prisoner 760 which STX international will be launching at AFM. STXinternational has secured all foreign rights on the pic and will be directly distributing in the UK and Ireland. Directed by Oscar and BAFTA…

Tahar Rahim owes his UTA agent, Ali Benmohamed, a huge thank you. If it weren't for Benmohamed's insistence that Rahim read the script for The Looming Tower, in spite of Rahim's blanket refusal to read anything that would cast Muslims as terrorists, he might never have played perhaps the most defining role of his…

Marie Monge, a Deadline One To Watch this year, received strong notices for her debut feature, Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) here in the Directors' Fortnight section. The film stars Tahar Rahim (A Prophet, The Looming Tower) and Stacy Martin, a breakout in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac. The trio visited the Deadline Can…

Marie Monge took inspiration for Directors' Fortnight selection Joueurs, her first feature, from her own experiences in the world of gambling, with a desire to "write about a very masculine world from the point of view of a woman." At the age of 22, she had a friend who was a gambler and, with him, discovered Paris's…

It’s 1998, and Americans are just beginning to understand the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Hulu’s new drama The Looming Tower traces that menace and ponders a big question: Did the rivalry between the FBI and CIA inadvertently set a path for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq? Here’s the first…