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Asia Tech x Singapore, 2025, 05: Alibaba and SAP in strategic partnership
Asia Tech x Singapore, 2025, 05: Alibaba and SAP in strategic partnership Alibaba Group and SAP have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprises modernise their operations through cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence. As part of the collaboration, Alibaba Cloud has joined SAP’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Certification Program and will support customers running SAP’s enterprise cloud solutions. Alibaba Group will also use SAP Cloud ERP Priva...
Sitaare Zameen Par, Review: Lots of sympathy, very little empathy
Sitaare Zameen Par, Review: Lots of sympathy, very little empathy Aamir Khan has earned for himself the sobriquet of a crusader, or an actor with a conscience. Several of his films have dealt with social issues, as in Taare Zameen Par (autism) and PK (an alien who helps earthlings to battle social evils), or cricket+revolt against British imperialism of yore (Lagaan). He also hosted a TV show, wherein he tried to get justice for sufferers of societal victimisation and injustice. So, making a ...
7 Dogs: USD 40m Saudi Arabian-Egyptian film, with Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt, releases teaser
7 Dogs: USD 40m Saudi Arabian-Egyptian film, with Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt, releases teaser His Excellency, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), Advisor Turki bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Sheikh, recently launched, via his official account on the X platform, the first teaser video for the highly anticipated action film 7 Dogs, the largest Arab production with a budget of $40 million. Starring Egyptian and Arab cinema stars Karim Abdel Aziz and Ahmed E...
Asia Tech x Singapore, 2025, 04: Building a trusted AI ecosystem, and creating jobs
Asia Tech x Singapore, 2025, 04: Building a trusted AI ecosystem, and creating jobs At the recent ATxSummit, the apex event of Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) 2025, organised by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA), key global and regional efforts around AI, LLM models, AI adoption for enterprise and up-skilling for talent were announced. Building a trusted AI ecosystem is a key focus for Singapore, as maximal adoption and innovation can happen, leading to greater produ...
Swaha-In the Name of Fire, Review: Burning issues and stark reality, in black and white
Swaha-In the Name of Fire, Review: Burning issues and stark reality, in black and white Deprived lower castes, without cash or savings, living in abject poverty and being targeted by members of higher castes, is a theme that we have seen and heard and read a lot about. We have also read, seen and heard on media, and learnt through vicarious narrations, that these adverse circumstances have slowly abated over the last 75 years or so, though, by no means have they been dealt with, in finality. ...
Brief Encounters, Mumbai, screens Jafar Panahi’s This is Not a Film
Made in 2011, This is Not a Film is a genre-defying, ground-breaking film (yes, it is a film) about the reputed Iranian film-maker, Jafar Panahi, made in collaboration with one of his friends, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, who wields the camera too. It was shot secretly in, and from, the house and building of Panahi, where he was serving a house-imprisonment sentence, for having made anti-establishment films secretly, and for supporting the revolution against the ruling Iranian clergy. The film was scre...
Mission Impossible-The Final Reckoning, Review: Tom Cruises through air, water, ice and land; dies twice, lives thrice
Mission Impossible-The Final Reckoning, Review: Tom Cruises through air, water, ice and land; dies twice, lives thrice 1,000? You are nowhere near. 10,000? You are getting warmer. 100,000? That, I guess, is very, very, close. It must have taken at least 100,000 persons to put together this humungous spectacle called Mission Impossible-The Final Reckoning, going by the end credits roll. I am making a wild guess, since it was not possible to count the names, which went on rolling for several m...
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FESTIVALS IN FOCUS CineMerit Award for Stellan Skarsgård: 42nd Munich International Film Festival to honor the Swedish actor
Stellan Skarsgård will be honored at the Munich International Film Festival for his achievements in the cinematic art. Stellan Skarsgard is a versatile actor, in Cannes I met him at the film reception on the Arte Boat, his latest film was coproduced by Arte. The picture was taken while I was not yet aware of his presence, I recognized him only on the way out and congratulated him on the spot for his outstanding performance. And only later Inrealised that he was in the background , yes he...
The Waco Independent Film Festival announces 2025 Film Lineup and Schedule
The Waco Independent Film Festival will take place In-Theater - July 17-20/Online Encore July 20-26 Julia Barnett’s family favorite A Christmas in New Hope is the Opening Night U.S. Premiere presentation and Chris Beier’s award-winning drama The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia is set for the Closing Night A Christmas in New Hope, The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia Waco, TX (June 14, 2025) – The Wac...
Submit now to the Window Rock Uranium Film Festival
Call for entries! The Window Rock international Uranium Film Fest at the Navajo Nation Museum focuses on films about nuclear power, the nuclear industry, uranium mining, nuclear waste and nuclear weapons and their impacts. Films about victims and environmental consequences of the nuclear fuel chain from mining to atomic waste. Indigenous filmmakers compete for the Klee Benally Earth Protector Award for Best Indigenous Filmmaker. The „Klee Benally Earth Protector Aw...