Hong Kong actor Aaron Kwok will open this year‘s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), the event’s organizers said Monday.Kwok has been chosen to co-host the festival‘s opening ceremony on Oct. 3 along with South Korean actress Kang Soo-yeon, they said.He will be the second foreign national to open the festival following Chinese actress Tang Wei, who hosted last year’s opening ceremony.The 48-year-old Kwok is a Hong Kong singer, dancer and actor who has been active since the 1980s and is als

DEAUVILLE, France (AFP) ― Kelly Reichardt’s drama “Night Moves” about three environmentalists who plot to blow up a dam won the top prize on Saturday at France’s Deauville Film Festival, which celebrates American movies.The drama, starring Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg and Peter Sarsgaard, is set in alternative farming communities in Oregon, with the trio’s plan to blow up a hydroelectric dam yielding unexpected consequences.Critics have hailed Reichardt’s latest work and latest collaboration

VENICE, Italy (AP) ― The Italian film “Sacro GRA,” a documentary about life on the highway that circles Rome by director Gianfranco Rosi, has won the Golden Lion for best film at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival. The Silver Lion for best director went to Alexandros Avranas of Greece for “Miss Violence” a disturbing look at sexual violence and abuse perpetrated by a grandfather. Greek actor Themis Panou won the best actor prize for his leading role in “Miss Violence,” and Italian actr

South Korean director Na Hong-jin was called a "heavyweight talent" on a list of "20 Directors to Watch" in the Friday edition of The New York Times.The critics gave the 39-year-old South Korean high points for keeping the viewers' attention with his second feature "The Yellow Sea," despite the unfavorable 10 p.m. screening slot at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival."Before it was over, this thrillingly visceral movie confirmed Mr. Na as a heavyweight talent," the critics wrote. The daily's film crit

TORONTO (AP) ― WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but he’s very present at the Toronto International Film Festival.Opening this year’s festival on Thursday was the premiere of Bill Condon’s dramatization of Assange and WikiLeaks, “The Fifth Estate” ― a film with which Assange refused to cooperate. It’s the only movie at Toronto that has the distinction of being called “a massive propaganda attack” by its primary subject.That was the opinion Assa