The fantastical epic animated feature film, The Boy and the Heron, from Academy Award–winning visionary director Hayao Miyazaki, will be the Opening Night Gala Presentation for the 48th Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 7, at Roy Thomson Hall. The original story was written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker and produced by Oscar®-winning Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki co-founded.
Blue Fox Entertainment debuted the official trailer for The Inventor, a stop-motion animation adventure film featuring the voices of Stephen Fry, Daisy Ridley, Marion Cotillard, Gauthier Battoue, Matt Berry, that follows the life of inventor Leonardo da Vinci.
Eleven films – seven first works and four second films – from nineteen countries will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the 71st San Sebastian Festival running from September 22 to 30, 2023.
MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Rah Digga, Latto, Tierra Whack and other female rappers look back at the influence and important role the women of hip hop played throughout the last 50 years in the Netflix documentary series Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop.
HBO unveiled the official trailer for Telemarketers, a three-part docuseries following two telemarketers as they go on a twenty-year mission to take down the telemarketing industry and expose a billion-dollar scam.
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.
Bleecker Street shared the official trailer Golda, the biopic drama set during the Yom Kippur War starring Helen Mirren as Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female Prime Minister.
Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for “Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn,” the four-part documentary series telling the riveting story of CEO-turned-fugitive Carlos Ghosn and his relentless climb to the top of the corporate ladder, shocking arrest, and unbelievable escape that stunned the world.
Ahead of its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival on August 8th, the first teaser dropped for John Rosman’s buzzy feature directorial debut New Life starring Sonya Walger (For All Mankind, Lost), Hayley Erin (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists), and Tony Amendola (Annabelle, Curse of Llorona).
The Oscar® Qualifying Hollyshorts Film Festival returns for its much-anticipated 19th edition from August 10- 20th, 2023 with over 400 short films produced in 40 minutes or less.
Venice Film Festival unveiled the 2023 lineup with new films by Luc Besson, Bradley Cooper, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Ava DuVernay, Michel Franco, Michael Mann, Pablo Larraín and Agnieszka Holland premiering in official competition.
The Academy Award®-Qualifying 2023 Indy Shorts International Film Festival (Indy Shorts), presented by Heartland Film ended on Sunday and announced its award winners and presented more than $30,000 in cash prizes at its Awards Ceremony.