It's a pleasure to report that, for the third consecutive year, I'll be attending the Tokyo International Film Festival. Past editions have offered a litany of worthwhile, even galvanizing premieres t...

It’s a pleasure to report that, for the third consecutive year, I’ll be attending the Tokyo International Film Festival. Past editions have offered a litany of worthwhile, even galvanizing premieres that rarely make their way towards North America, and the selection for 2026 suggests consistency. Alongside three splashy gala screenings, the 39th TIFF features a […] The post 39th Tokyo International Film Festival Lineup Features Lisandro Alonso and Ulrike Ottinger, Kenji Mizoguchi and Youssef Chahine Retrospectives & More first appeared on The Film Stage.

A look back at the actor’s unique contribution to Egyptian cinema, and the adaptability that has ensured her continuing relevance

Sensitive information is defined by domain and intent, not a universal category, yet redaction systems such as privacy filters and named-entity recognizers fix a taxonomy at training time, requiring retraining for each new domain. We introduce ASIRF (Agentic Sensitive Information Redaction Framewor…

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Agentic AI systems plan, invoke tools and act with limited supervision; they are now both the subject of audits and, increasingly, the auditor. Independence, the foundation of assurance,is still applied to them as a binary. We argue that it must be graded along three orthogonal axes: principal inde…

Agentic AI systems plan, invoke tools and act with limited supervision; they are now both the subject of audits and, increasingly, the auditor. Independence, the foundation of assurance,is still applied to them as a binary. We argue that it must be graded along three orthogonal axes: principal inde…