The 2023 Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) will open on Thursday, October 5, with the East Coast Premiere of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Nyad. The film, which is set to be released by Netflix later this year, marks the narrative feature directorial debut for the Academy Award®, BAFTA® and Emmy Award®-winning filmmaking duo Vasarhelyi and Chin.
Critical Zone (Mantagheye bohrani) by Ali Ahmadzadeh, a film secretly shot on the streets of Teheran, without permission from the Iranian authorities is the winner of the Pardo d’oro award at Locarno76 film festival. In the film Amir, guided by the voice of his GPS, navigates the underworld districts of Tehran to comfort the troubled souls of the night.
Filmmaker Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) will receive the prestigious Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.
Oscilloscope Labs debuted the official trailer for Love Life, a Japanese melodrama that follows a married woman living with her husband, who decides to care of her son’s long-lost father when he reappears, deaf, ill and homeless.
Dekanalog released in US theaters, the award-winning Romanian drama-comedy film Men of Deeds (Oameni de treaba) from Romanian filmmaker Paul Negoescu (Two Lottery Tickets).
Oscilloscope Laboratories debuted the official trailer for Piaffe, the first feature from award winning visual artist and filmmaker Ann Oren. Shot on lush 16mm, the film is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice and stars Simone Bucio, Simon(e), Jaikiriuma Paetau along with Sebastian Rudolph
Altered Innocence unveiled the official trailer for Astrakan, the French coming-of-age drama film described as “a beautiful and melancholic 16mm character study of troubled youth” starring Mirko Giannini, Jehnny Beth, Bastien Bouillon, Theo Costa-Marini, and Lorine Delin.
Toronto International Film Festival revealed the 2023 selections for the Discovery and Midnight Madness programs.
A24 revealed the official trailer for Dicks: The Musical, a comedy musical with an all-star ensemble featuring Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Megan Thee Stallion, Bowen Yang, and introducing Aaron Jackson & Josh Sharp.
A Ravaging Wind (El viento que arrasa), a cinematic adaptation of Selva Almada’s homonymous novel by Argentinian filmmaker Paula Hernández will open the Horizontes Latinos section of the 71st edition of San Sebastian film festival. Alfredo Castro, Sergi López, Almudena González and Joaquín Acebo star in this tale of a preacher and his daughter who’s car breaks down during their latest mission to spread the gospel.
Actress Diane Kruger will receive the Golden Eye at Zurich Film Festival for her “outstanding career and great versatility” and will present her most recent movie Visions by Yann Gozlan as an international premiere.
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon takes us on a cinematic journey through the past, present, and future of her hometown Appalachia in her new documentary King Coal.