First announced at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival under the title ‘The Hanged,’ the crime/thriller film by Fernando Coimbra is finally making its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. under the new title, ‘Carnival Is Over.’ The film stars Leandra Leal and Irandhir Santos as a couple trying to break free of their family’s link to the mafia.
The documentary film Your Tomorrow, written, produced and directed by Ali Weinstein, which will have its world premiere at the upcoming 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), has been acquired by Blue Ice Docs for release in Canada.
27th Dances With Films: LA announced its Filmmaker Award winners with the Grand Jury Prize winners led by Michael Groom’s Between the Lights for Best Narrative Feature and Leon Lozano’s A Little Hope For Chicago for Best Documentary Feature.
The 48th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline48) wrapped on Saturday, June 29 with director Brian J. Smith’s A House Is Not a Disco, the documentary feature about Fire Island Pines, the East Coast’s gay fantasyland preceded by the Festival’s annual Award Ceremony.
The Academy Award®-Qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival (Indy Shorts) returns to Indianapolis for its seventh edition, running July 23-28, 2024. The lineup includes titles featuring Seth Rogen, Michael K. Williams, Nolan Gould, Richard Kind and more.
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s Cuba-set early ‘90s coming of age tale Los Frikis won the Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 29th annual Nantucket Film Festival® (NFF). Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev’s Porcelain War, focused on Ukrainians using their art to resist during war, was the recipient of the Documentary Feature Audience Award. Puppy Love, directed by Daniel Rashid and written by Rashid and Elizabeth Valenti, about a woman who has to decide if her connection with a new man is a deep one or if she just likes his dog, received the Narrative Short Film Audience Award. Tom Dey’s Jumpman, profiling the photographer behind the iconic Michael Jordan mid-air shot, took home the Documentary Short Film Audience Award.
The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) will close with Fingernails, Christos Nikou’s English-language debut starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White.
The 2024 Palm Springs International ShortFest presented Awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 to the Festival juried and audience award winners including five Academy Award® qualifying awards selected from the 310 short films that were part of the Official Selection.
Itandehui Jansen’s Itu Ninu (Where the Cornfields Are) won Best Narrative Feature, and Juan Mejía Botero’s Igualada took the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 26th Anniversary edition of the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (CLAIFF).
The 23rd New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) unveiled the eight titles nominated for this year’s Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film Competition, which shines a spotlight on filmmakers whose singular visions deserve to be internationally heralded
Atikamekw Suns by Chloé Leriche won the coveted Grand Chameleon and the Best Narrative Feature awards at the 27th edition of the Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) which wrapped up on Sunday, June 9th. Impossible Town by Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris took home the award for Best Documentary Feature.
The Palm Springs International ShortFest celebrates its 30th-anniversary edition at the Regal Palm Springs from June 18-24, 2024.