This Venice competition entry from director May el-Toukhy ('Queen of Hearts') revolves around a maid whose past threatens to ...

The Danish filmmaker, one of two female directors in competition this year, comes to the Lido with a feature following a ...

In 'Woman Unknown,' May el-Toukhy unfolds a provocative but predictable psychodrama about sexual shame, anchored by a ...

Iceland intended to remain neutral when World War II began, but its location in the North Atlantic made that increasingly ...

In "Woman Unknown," May el-Toukhy takes a closer look at women accused of having relationships with German soldiers during ...

Danish-Egyptian director May El-Toukhy, who worked on Netflix’s 'The Queen', said she had faced gender bias throughout her career, including on her latest film, 'Woman Unknown'.

Now, Donald Trump wants his own ceremonial arch.

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Built by the Nazis as a coastal defense, then used by the Polish to plot a Cold-War invasion of Scandinavia, the network of tunnels and bunkers on Wolin Island on Poland’s Baltic Coast has been at the ...

Only one North Carolina congressional candidate in the 2026 midterms broke away from party partisanship in the U.S. House of ...

The tit-for-tat escalation comes after Germany said it was closing both the Russian Consulate in Bonn and the Russian ...