From left: Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu and actors Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva at the Cannes Film Festival. Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Chef Val James inspired her daughter to create a documentary about the challenges female chefs face, including access to capital, sexual harassment, and family time off. Robert Featherstone/A Fine Line hide caption
Nigel Munyati, the director of the Zimbabwean International Film and Festival Trust, launched a film competition based on a single question: "What does it mean to be Zimbabwean?" The submissions came in slowly at first. "Young Zimbabweans are still tentative about taking advantage of that freedom of speech," he says. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
'Free But Not Free': Zimbabwe's Amateur Filmmakers Turn A Lens On Their Country
Japanese animation movie director Isao Takahata received many honors over his career, including France's officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, which he accepted in 2015. JIJI Press/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Writer-director Jordan Peele says that making Get Out represents his "truest passion." Rich Fury/Invision/AP hide caption
'Get Out' Sprang From An Effort To Master Fear, Says Director Jordan Peele
From left to right, Salvatore Corsitto as Bonasera, James Caan as Santino 'Sonny' Corleone and Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone in 'The Godfather'. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images hide caption
Director Catalina Aguilar Mastretta behind the scenes of "Everybody Loves Somebody." Pantelion Films hide caption
Saba, 18, eloped with her fiance, which her family regarded as bringing shame upon them. So her father and uncle tried to kill her. Courtesy of HBO hide caption
She Survived An 'Honor Killing': Oscar-Winning Documentary Airs Tonight
Guests attend the Film Independent Brunch during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Araya Diaz/Getty Images hide caption
Actor Matt Damon, who stars as NASA Astronaut Mark Watney in the film The Martian, center, makes hand prints in cement at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Mars Yard in Pasadena, Calif. in Aug. 2015. Damon is shown with Mars Science Lab Project Manager Jim Erickson, left, and NASA Astronaut Drew Feustel. Bill Ingalls/AP hide caption
A new documentary shows how the young Maasai men in Il Polei fell in love with cricket — and use the sport to send a message to their village elders. Warriors Film hide caption
Gone with the Wind has sold more than 200 million tickets — most of them back when there were far fewer people on the planet. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Samuel L. Jackson is one of the stars of Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight, which is showing in 100 theaters in 70-millimeter film — a nearly-obsolete premium format. Andrew Cooper/Courtesy of the Weinstein Company hide caption
Old-School Projection Fans Are Grateful For 'Hateful Eight' In 70 Millimeter
Everyone knows beavers can swim, but at one point they also soared through the skies in Idaho thanks to a novel relocation method involving parachutes. Mathieu Belanger/Reuters /Landov hide caption
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Still from the short film Dol (First Birthday) Courtesy of Andrew Ahn hide caption
Super Typhoon Maysak, as seen from the International Space Station on March 31. ESA/NASA/Samantha Cristoforetti hide caption
Joy (left, voiced by Amy Poehler) and Sadness (voiced by Phyllis Smith) catch a ride on the Train of Thought in Pixar's Inside Out. The movie opens in theaters nationwide June 19. Disney/Pixar hide caption
Science Of Sadness And Joy: 'Inside Out' Gets Childhood Emotions Right
Two imagined Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors. Courtesy of Amanda McCall hide caption
Chuck Workman at his editing station in Beverly Hills in 2010, the last year he created montages for the Oscars. Workman says montages today have a less highly edited style. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
King Of Condensed Films: Meet Chuck Workman, The Oscars' Montage Master
Actors dressed in full Ku Klux Klan regalia for scenes in 1915's The Birth of a Nation. Hulton Archive/ Getty Images hide caption
British actor Idris Elba played Stringer Bell, second-in-command to Baltimore drug kingpin Avon Barksdale, in HBO's The Wire. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images hide caption
Historian Peniel Joseph says criticism of the film Selma as historically inaccurate is misguided, and that the movie correctly portrays African-Americans as the drivers of the civil rights movement. Kelvin Ma/Peniel Joseph hide caption
In 2012, Kirk Douglas attended the last 70mm film screening of 1960's Spartacus, which he starred in. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images hide caption