
Geoff Mcfetridge: Drawing a Life directed by Dan Covert kicks off Calgary International Film Festival 2023 lineup running from September 21 to October 1, 2023.
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Geoff Mcfetridge: Drawing a Life directed by Dan Covert kicks off Calgary International Film Festival 2023 lineup running from September 21 to October 1, 2023.

International and local dance films will be showcased at the 14th annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SFDFF) from September 22 to October 15, 2023 in San Francisco theaters and streamed online.

Telluride Film Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary edition from Thursday, August 31 through Monday, September 4, 2023.

Films from Isabella Eklöf, Kitty Green, Kei Chika-Ura, Xavier Legrand, Christos Nikou, Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang join the list of Golden Shell competitors at the 71st San Sebastian Festival. In addition, the French film A Real Job (Un métier sérieux), directed by Thomas Lilti, will be part of the special screenings of the Official Selection.

Films by Paul B. Preciado, Delphine Girard, Jean-Luc Godard, Yui Kiyohara, Damien Manivel, Rodrigo Moreno, Éléonore Saintagnan and Eduardo Williams will compete at San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera open competition, where everything goes as far as style and runtime are concerned. The section will showcase 25 titles: fifteen features, eight shorts and two medium-length films.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.