With disco legend Gloria Gaynor in attendance, Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm), will open the 54th annual event with the documentary film Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive.
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Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive Documentary to Open Nashville Film Festival
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
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Tari Wariebi’s ‘We Were Meant To’ Wins Grand Prix at 19th HollyShorts Film Festival
We Were Meant To by Tari Wariebi The 19th HollyShorts Film Festival wrapped over the weekend and the 2023 HollyShorts Oscar-qualifying awards went to Tari Wariebi’s We Were Meant To (Grand Prix Best Short), Misan Harriman’s The After (Best Live Action), Rita Basulto’s Humo (Smoke) (Best Animation) and Elisa Gambino Every Day After (Best Documentary).
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Close Your Eyes Director Víctor Erice to Receive Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival
Víctor Erice, Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos) 50 years after he won the Golden Shell for his first solo feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), filmmaker Víctor Erice will receive a Donostia Award at the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The Festival pays tribute to a filmmaker who, with only four feature films to his name, has garnered the Silver Shell for Best Director, Golden Shell for Best Film and the Jury and International Film Critics Prizes at the Festival de Cannes, among many other distinctions.
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James Marsh’s ‘Dance First’ Starring Gabriel Byrne to Close San Sebastian Festival
Dance First Oscar winning director James Marsh’s Dance First, the biopic film on Irish Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Becket, will close the 71st San Sebastian Festival. The film closing out the Official Selection in out of competition stars Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, and Fionn O’Shea.
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Kibwe Tavares & Daniel Kaluuya’s ‘The Kitchen’ to World Premiere as Closing Night Film of London Film Festival
The Kitchen. (L to R) Kane Robinson as Izi, Jedaiah Bannerman as Benji in The Kitchen. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023 Kibwe Tavares & Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen will world premiere as the Closing Night Gala film of the 67th BFI London Film Festival. Starring in the film are Kane Robinson, Jedaiah Bannerman, Hope Ikpoku Jr, Teija Kabs, Demmy Ladipo, Cristale and BackRoad Gee.
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Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest and Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables Bookend Perlak Lineup of San Sebastian Festival
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest will open the Perlak lineup of San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition. This free adaptation of the homonymous novel by Martin Amis, portraying the everyday life of a German family who live beside Auschwitz, earned the British director the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes.
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Films from Jonathan Glazer, Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland Among 61st New York Film Festival Main Slate
The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer Films from Jonathan Glazer, Andrew Haigh, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Todd Haynes, Agnieszka Holland, Hong Sangsoo, Raven Jackson, Radu Jude, Yorgos Lanthimos, Michael Mann, Martín Rejtman, Alice Rohrwacher, Justine Triet, Wang Bing, Wim Wenders, and Zhang Lu are among 32 feature films that comprise the Main Slate of the 61st New York Film Festival (NYFF), taking place September 29–October 15 at Lincoln Center.
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‘Dream Scenario’ Starring Nicolas Cage to Open Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform Program Lineup
Nicolas Cage in Kristoffer Borgli’s “Dream Scenario” (courtesy of TIFF) Toronto International Film Festival unveiled the 10 World Premiere features that comprise the 2023 Platform program, opening with Kristoffer Borgli’s satire-comedy film Dream Scenario, starring Nicolas Cage.
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World Premiere of Copa 71 Kicks Off Toronto Film Festival Documentary Lineup of 22 Films from Raoul Peck, Lucy Walker, Roger Ross Williams
Copa 71 directed by Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine (TIFF) Documentary films on mountain climber Lhakpa Sherpa, Japan’s reality TV star Nasubi, Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, Indigenous activist Layla Staats, historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and Canadian icon Mr. Dressup are among the 2023 selection for the Toronto International Film Festival’s TIFF Docs program featuring 22 titles from 12 countries around the world.
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First Look at Indian Sci Fi Epic ‘Kalki 2898-AD’ Starring Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone
At the annual San Diego Comic-Con, Vyjayanthi Movies revealed the first look teaser for Kalki 2898-AD, originally titled Project K,the sci-fi epic film billed as India’s most ambitious cinematic universe yet with the captivating storytelling, futuristic setting, and “Spice Punk” aesthetic inspired by the film..
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Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils Starring Amanda Seyfried to Premiere at Toronto Film Festival
Seven Veils directed by Atom Egoyan (Photo credit: Courtesy of Amanda Matlovich) Legendary filmmaker Atom Egoyan returns to the Toronto International Film Festival with the World Premiere of his latest work Seven Veils, the opera-inspired film starring Amanda Seyfried with Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine. Also featured are Ambur Braid as Salome and Michael Kupfer-Radecky as John the Baptist, who both starred in the Canadian Opera Company’s most recent production of Salome, also directed by Egoyan, from which the film was inspired.
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First Look at The Becomers, Zach Clark’s Genre-Bending Comedy on a Body-Snatching Alien
Molly Plunk and Jacquelyn Haas in The Becomers Ahead of the world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 22nd, Zach Clark’s upcoming genre-bending comedy The Becomers revealed the new, first-look clip.