The 18th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) presented the main Golden Eye prizes in the three competition categories to Cascadeuses by Elena Avdija, Los Reyes del Mundo by Laura Mora Ortega and Sam Now by Reed Harkness.
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2022 Zurich Film Festival Award: STUNTWOMEN, LOS REYES DEL MUNDO and SAM NOW Win Golden Eye Prizes
Cascadeuses (Stuntwomen) by Elena Avdija
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WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story Opens and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Closes Newport Beach Film Festival 2022
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story by Eric Appel Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) will kick off its eight-day run on Thursday, October 13, with WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson and Quinta Brunson. fresh from the Toronto International Film Festival, where it generated huge buzz and won the People’s Choice Award in the Midnight Madness category, WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story. WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story is directed by Eric Appel and stars Daniel Radcliffe as “Weird Al” Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
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70th San Sebastian Festival Winners: THE KINGS OF THE WORLD Wins Golden Shell
The Kings of the World (Los reyes del mundo) by Laura Mora The Colombian film The Kings of the World (Los reyes del mundo) by Laura Mora has won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition. The film follows five Medellín teenagers from the streets on a desperate journey of survival. Genki Kawamura took the Silver Shell for Best Director for A Hundred Flowers (Hyakka), while the Best Screenplay Award went to Dong Yun Zhou and Wang Chao for their work on the Chao’s movie, A Woman (Kong Xiu); and City of Donostia / Sebastian Audience Award went to Argentina, 1985 by Santiago Mitre.
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Toronto Film Festival 2022 Winners: Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans Wins People’s Choice Award
The Fabelmans directed by Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans won the People’s Choice Award at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story directed by Eric Appel won the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award and Black Ice directed by Hubert Davis won the People’s Choice Documentary Award.
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79th Venice Film Festival Winners: Laura Poitras’ ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Wins Golden Lion
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 79th Venice Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her crusade to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid epidemic.
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RETROGRADE Teaser Trailer. Matthew Heineman Documentary Captures Chaotic Afghanistan Withdrawal
Retrograde directed by Matthew Heineman National Geographic released the teaser trailer for Retrograde, the new documentary from Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman world premiering at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. The documentary film captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives and offers a cinematic and historic window onto the end of America’s longest war, and the costs endured for those most intimately involved.
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56th Karlovy Vary IFF Award Winners – Iranian Drama ‘Summer with Hope’ Wins Grand Prix
Summer with Hope directed by Sadaf Foroughi The Iranian social drama Summer with Hope directed by Sadaf Foroughi won the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In the film, a young swimmer is training for the national championships with his new coach, but the relationship between the two young men elicits disapproval from the people around them. “We live in a world full of violence and discrimination. I hope that our stories bring peace and tranquility,” said director Sadaf Foroughi to the jury and her colleagues.
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Watch a Clip for ZANZIBAR: TROUBLE IN PARADISE, Immersive Tribeca Fest Documentary on Climate Change
Zanzibar: Trouble in Paradise. Women of the sponge farm walking out to the nursery. Photo credit Ashraki Mussa Machano “Zanzibar: Trouble in Paradise,” an immersive documentary about Climate Change in the developing world, is one of the first holographic films ever produced in the world, and the first holographic film and documentary on a Looking Glass display.
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Tribeca Festival 2022 Winners – Good Girl Jane, January (Janvaris), and The Cave of Adullam Win Top Prizes
Good Girl Jane by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz Good Girl Jane, January (Janvaris), and The Cave of Adullam took the top prizes at the 21st annual Tribeca Festival. The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature went to Good Girl Jane by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz; Best International Narrative Feature went to January (Janvaris) by Viesturs Kairiss and Best Documentary Feature went to The Cave of Adullam by Laura Checkoway.
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Ruben Östlund’s TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Wins Palme d’or at Cannes Film Festival
Woody Harrelson in Triangle of Sadness directed by Ruben Östlund Triangle of Sadness directed by Ruben Östlund won the Palme d’or, the top prize at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. In the film starring Woody Harrelson as Thomas, The Captain, models Carl and Yaya are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues’ gallery of super-rich passengers. At first, all appears Instagrammable. But a storm is brewing, and the cruise ends catastrophically. Carl and Yaya find themselves marooned on a desert island with a group of billionaires and one of the ship’s cleaners. Hierarchy is suddenly flipped upside down, as the housekeeper is the the only one who knows how to fish.
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Cannes Film Festival 2022 Unveils Poster + Adds More Films to Lineup
Cannes Film Festival added more films to the lineup for the 75th edition of the festival, taking place May 17 to May 28.
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Cannes Film Festival 2022 Announces Official Selections, Opens with Michel Hazanavicius’ Z (Comme Z)
Z (Comme Z) directed by Michel Hazanavicius Cannes Film Festival announced the Official Selection for the 75th edition of the festival. Michel Hazanavicius’ zombie comedy Z (Comme Z) starring Bérénice Bejo and Romain Duris will open the festival Out of Competition.