The prosecution’s main witness refused to testify against his brother The sole survivor of the 2008 Simshar tragedy has been spared jail over a domestic violence incident with his brother who refused ...

An exclusive new teaser trailer of the Maltese full-feature film Simshar, which is currently in production. Loosely based on the Simshar boating tragedy, the movie will be Malta’s first-ever full ...

Surrounded by remnants of the ancient world, the characters in this, the first indigenous feature film to come from Malta, find themselves in a painful drama as old as history, and as contemporary as ...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to “Simshar,” the first professional feature film from Malta. The pic, directed by Rebecca Cremona, centers on the timely topic of ...

Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to “Simshar,” the first-ever feature film from Malta. The pic, directed by Rebecca Cremona, centers on the timely topic of immigration. It ...

Their story has been told before on screen, in the 1990 Peter Medak film The Krays, in which Martin Kemp played Reggie and his brother Gary Kemp played Ronnie. In that version of the story, the ...

Malta's first Oscar contender is a harrowing story of disaster at sea, with elements ripped straight from the headlines. The sea was a focus, but her story was a local one, made on a small scale. Yet ...

The striking thing about Simshar – billed as the first Maltese feature film, or at least the first to gain international distribution – is that for a docudrama inspired by an incident seven years ago, ...

The first ever Maltese production to be nominated for the Oscars, Simshar, is set to be released in a number of countries including Brussels, Tunisia, Australia, Canada and possibly the United States.

Rebecca Cremona’s Simshar — Malta’s first fully fledged home-grown feature — marks a turning point for the indigenous film-making community. Melanie Goodfellow reports. Malta may have welcomed scores ...

It’s not unusual to see Malta on screen. Much like the UK, it’s a popular filming location for Hollywood mega-pics, recently playing host to World War Z, Captain Phillips, and the HBO series Game of ...

Simshar, the long-awaited Maltese feature film co-written and directed by Rebecca Cremona, is far from perfect. In many ways, its flaws are the kind of flaws you encounter in a debut film of any kind.