
Jay Kelly, Nuremberg, Dead Man’s Wire and Christy will have Red Carpet Premieres at this year’s AFI Fest taking place October 22–26, 2025 in Hollywood.
Under the Flags, the Sun (Bajo las banderas, el sol) by director Juanjo Pereira will represent Paraguay in the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards.

The 2025 Prague Independent Film Festival came to a close over the weekend, with Yev K’banchik’s I Never Said Goodbye taking home the Best Feature Film prize.

Tonatiuh will be honored at the upcoming Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF48) with a Spotlight Program and MVFF Award, for “his transformative artistry in Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, bringing emotional depth and fearless authenticity to a role that resonates on both personal and cultural levels.”
Directed and co-written by Yannis Veslemes, She Loved Blossoms More is a strange trip into three brothers’ grief and surreal science-fiction nightmare as they build a time machine to bring back their long-dead mother.

Dylan O’Brien will receive the Vanguard Award at Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Miami Film Festival GEMS (MFF) taking place October 29 – November 5, 2025.
Directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz, the documentary Prime Minister follows Jacinda Ardern’s five-year term as New Zealand’s 40th Prime Minister, exploring both the public and private challenges she navigated.
Mistress Dispeller, the new documentary by Hong Kong–born director Elizabeth Lo (Stray) centers on Wang Zhenxi, a professional “mistress dispeller,” whose self-styled service intervenes in marital infidelity.

The Boise Film Festival returns with its second edition, October 2-5, 2025, showcasing 38 independent films..