Isabel Hagen’s drama On a String, about a gifted violist’s struggle to find her place as a professional musician, was a two-time winner at the 2025 Naples International Film Festival, taking both the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature and NIFF’s Focus on the Arts Award.
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution by Nick Davis and “Forward” by Nic Collar, will open the 25th anniversary edition of Whistler Film Festival running December 3–7, 2025.
Yuval Hadadi’s A Man Walks Down the Street has won the Narrative Feature Award and Rena Effendi’s Searching for Satyrus took the award for Best Documentary Feature Award at the 32nd Austin Film Festival.
The President’s Cake directed by Hasan Hadi won the Award for Best Narrative Feature; and To the West, in Zapata directed by David Bim received the Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 33rd edition of Hamptons International Film Festival.
Saudi Arabia has selected Hijrah (Arabic: Hijra), directed by Shahad Ameen, as the country’s entry into the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards.
The seventh edition of Micheaux Film Festival running October 23–26, 2025 in LA, unveiled the full lineup including 36 World Premieres and more than 100 Los Angeles Premieres.
Jacob Elordi will be honored at the 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival with the Maverick Award for his “remarkable performance” in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
The 2025 SCAD Savannah Film Festival has named Will Arnett, Rose Byrne, Miles Caton, Zoey Deutch, Joel Edgerton, Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac, Dylan O’Brien, Benny Safdie, and Tessa Thompson among its honorees.
The road-trip family film Omaha by Cole Webley walked away with the Grand Jury Prize Best Overall Feature Film at the 14th Richmond International Film Festival.
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho’s 217 minutes long epic odyssey I Only Rest in the Storm will makes its North American premiere at the 63rd New York Film Festival.
