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11 films have been selected for this year’s 2023 Cannes International Critics’ Week (Semaine de la critique), with 7 first films and 6 directed by women. To kick off this 62nd edition, Ama Gloria, first solo film by French director Marie Amachoukeli – winner of the Caméra d’Or for Party Girl that she co-directed with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. She delivers a delicate, intimate film about the deep connection between 6- year-old Cléo and Gloria, her nanny. Gloria must suddenly leave Cléo and return to Cape Verde. Marie Amachoukeli conveys with incredible grace cruel, heartbreaking farewells, awash in the summer sunlight.

In Coven, the new documentary by Rama Rau premiering at Hot Docs film festival, three millennial women who identify as witches seek guidance and travel to explore their past lives and lost traditions.

Directed by Liora Spilk Bialostozky, Pedro, a documentary on plastic artist and designer Pedro Friedeberg will feature in Mexico City’s National Autonomous University of Mexico International Film Festival (FICUNAM) as part of the “AHORA MEXICO” competition, which awards the best in contemporary Mexican cinema. FICUNAM will hold its thirteenth edition from June 1st to June 11th, 2023.

Directed by Bobbi Jo Hart, the award-winning documentary film Fanny: The Right To Rock chronicles the life and revival of this groundbreaking all-female rock group in 1970s America, revealing the fascinating untold story of a phenomenal band that were dubbed the “female Beatles”.

You’ve seen the movie, here is Cocaine Bear: The True Story, a documentary taking a deep dive into the bizarre actual events behind the hit Hollywood movie.

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) announced the fully in-person program lineup for CAAMFest 2023, taking place May 11-21, 2023 in San Francisco. Opening Night of this year’s festival is headlined by the film Joy Ride directed by Adele Lim at the Castro Theatre.

Co-directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West, the documentary Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting is a comprehensive examination of the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find demeaning and offensive.

Directed by Brenda Akele Jorde, the documentary film The Homes We Carry will make its North American premiere at Hot Docs 2023 on April 28 in the festival program “The Changing Face of Europe”.

Inspired in part by filmmaker Sarah Watts’ own upbringing in a Jehovah’s Witness community, the Canadian drama film You Can Live Forever stars Anwen O’Driscoll as a teenager sent to live with her aunt in a devoutly religious Jehovah’s Witness, and develops a relationship with another young woman in the community.

Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts, and Corey Hawkins will star in The Piano Lesson, directed by Malcolm Washington and based on the play ‘The Piano Lesson’ by August Wilson.