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One of the most powerful elements of cinema is how it brings languages, costumes, and stories to audiences all over the world. Tizuka Yamasaki, the granddaughter of a Japanese couple, born in the south of Brazil, at the height of the coffee wave does exactly this in her work.

Persis Khambatta, a smart and beautiful Indian actress and model, became instantly famous in December 1979 when she appeared on movie screens as Lieutenant Ilia, the Deltan navigator of the Starship USS Enterprise, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture directed by Robert Wise. The film was based on the television series (1966-1969) created by Gene Roddenberry, starring William Shatner as Captain James Kirk, and Leonard Nimoy as Vulcan science officer Spock.

April 22nd is Earth Day, a momentous occasion to celebrate and raise awareness about environmental issues. So many great movies and documentaries can educate and inspire people to take action toward a more sustainable future.

It should come as no surprise that filmmakers have tried for years to capture the essence of soccer (football in Great Britain and elsewhere, in a diversity of languages): it's the world's most popular sport,  watched by billions of people. Imagine it on celluloid (or digital).

Exactly three months ago we saluted Queen Elizabeth II on the 70th anniversary of her coronation. We looked at her, not from history but from the universe of imagination, fantasy, and stories.

On June 24, 2022, the radical majority on the Supreme Court brought about the end of Roe v. Wade in a ruling that the rightwing has been planning for decades.

When, at the height of Expressionism, Fritz Lang imagined Metropolis, Europe was still shaking from the Great War, the bloody fall of the tzars, and the series of internal wars in Russia. A mere four years separate the consolidation of Russia as a communist nation to the birth of Metropolis, in 1927.

Hany Abu-Assad received the Dutch Movies Matter award for Huda's Salon from the 14th edition of the Movies That Matter Festival. The international film festival homing in on human rights ran April 8-16, 2022, and screened its films in The Hague, online, and in cities across the Netherlands.

Movie enthusiasts probably had seen George Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (Un voyage dans la lune) many times. It’s fun, beautiful, energetic, and full of complex special effects - an extraordinary picture for 1902.

In celebration of the month in which we focus our attention on our home, planet Earth, and the numerous problems that plague it, for many of which humans are responsible, we look back at the cinema which, for a hundred years, has contributed to creating awareness of the importance of caring for nature. Reflecting on the screen the wonders of nature and the current dramas about the interrelation between man and the environment have been, and continue to be, an adventure that has had many exponents in world cinema.