"Yossi and Jagger", 2002, military based drama and  same sex love story.  Dir. Eytan  Fox, with Ohad Knoller (Yossi)and Yehuda Levi (Jagger) RT. 67 minutes Nobody can accuse the Israeli cinema of a...

by Alex Deleon What amounts to a mini-festival of Israeli films is being presented at the  venerable old PUSKIN MOZI (Pushkin Art Cinema) in Budapest. under the sponsorship of the Israeli Embassy...

AFP – French singing legend Charles Aznavour, one of the 20th century’s most prolific songwriters who remains active at 92, was honored Thursday with a Hollywood star presented by California’s...

RUSSIAN JEWS  (Russkie Evrei) is an Historical Document compiled and directed by Sergei Nurmamed and narrated  by Dmitriy Altschuler-Kurchati. Ukrainian premier, 2016, RT 86' Part of the...

With  Mirlan  Abdykalkov, director of the magnificent Kygyz film     SYTAK. (Heavenly Nomadic)

Amazing -- very first night in Kiev, at festival opening ceremony, I met Victor Yushchenko, former President of Ukraine! ~ 2005 -- 2010 Not bad for openers  

MOLODIST 46, KIEV Int'l Film Festival KIFF By Alex Deleon-Pevney       The Scythian Deer is the Ukrainian equivalent of Hollywood's Oscar. The purpose of the festival is to promote young...

in Memoriam by Alex Deleon   I Must say that I was a little shocked to hear the news last night on Kossuth Radio, Budapest, of the passing of Andrzej Wajda, the Polish cinema  maestro. Not that it...

REVIEW by ALEX DELEON Sponsored by the Indian Embassy the 2016 Budapest Indian Film Week offers a savvy selection of recent and not so recent landmarks of the Bollywood cinema. One film per night...

by ALEX DELEON, <filmfestivals.com>   Clint Eastwood's latest offering "SULLY" has been doing slam-bang box-office business in the USA since it is a well done Near Disaster film, and in a...