64 short films from 29 countries screen in the three competition sections of the 35th edition of Filmfest Dresden taking place April, 18 to 23, 2023 in Dresden, Germany.
Film Festivals
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64 Short Films to Compete at 35th Filmfest Dresden
Chemkids by Julius Gintaras Blum
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THE STROLL to Open and DRIFTER to Close BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
The Stroll by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s Sundance award-winning documentary The Stroll will open and its Hannes Hirsch’s debut feature Drifter will close the 37th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 15th – 26th, 2023. In addition, Tünde Skovrán’s intimate documentary Who I Am Not will have its UK Premiere as the Centrepiece Presentation Screening.
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Emmanuelle Nicot’s DAVOT Wins Audience Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot The world premiere of All India Rank by Varun Grover brought the 52nd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to a close with Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot winning the Audience Award. The feature debut by Belgian writer and filmmaker Emmanuelle Nicot portrays the journey of a girl at the cusp of teenager-hood, Dalva, who must learn how to be a child again, after she’s been taken away from her abusive father Jacques.
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Le Spectre de Boko Haram wins Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2023 Tiger Competition winners and IFFR Board of Directors Le spectre de Boko Haram by Cyrielle Raingou (Cameroon, France) wins the Tiger Award at the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). In her debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of children as they carve out their own worlds amid the dangers of armed conflict. We meet the precocious Falta, studious and hardworking, eager to process her father’s death in a terrorist attack. Her classmate, Ibrahim, and his older brother Mohamad struggle with balancing their boyhood energy and a traumatic past that strays them from their eight and 11-year-old innocence.
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AFI FEST 2023 Reveals Dates
(L-R) Paul Dano, Mateo Zoryna Francis-DeFord, Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Seth Rogen, Steven Spielberg and Chloe East at AFI FEST 2022 Red Carpet screening of The Fablemans at the TCL Chinese Theatre Nov. 6, 2022 – Photo Credit: AFI The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the dates for AFI FEST 2023.
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ART COLLEGE 1994 Trailer. Chinese Animated Film by Liu Jian Premieres at Berlinale
Art College 1994 directed by Liu Jian Directed by Liu Jian, a professor at China Academy of Art’s School of Animation and Games, and produced by a team of teachers and students over a span of five years, the Chinese animated film Art College 1994 will world premiere in Competition section in the 73rd Berlinale.
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SXSW 2023 Reveals 2nd Wave of Films, World Premiere of Bottoms, Tetris
Tetris directed by Jon S. Baird (Courtesy of Apple) South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the second wave of the 2023 Film & TV Festival Lineup, including all Visions, Global, 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites plus numerous additions to Headliners, TV Premieres, Narrative and Documentary Spotlight, and other sections. The Festival also announced that Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s Swarm and Lee Sung Jin’s Beef will be the Opening and Closing Night TV premieres.
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Kristen Stewart Heads Berlin Film Festival’s International Jury
Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer The Berlinale announced the competition jury and has added the world premiere of Art College 1994 by Chinese director Liu Jian in the Competition that will now comprise 19 films.
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Ray Romano’s Somewhere in Queens to Open 40th Miami Film Festival Lineup
Somewhere In Queens directed by Ray Romano Miami Film Festival will celebrate its 40th anniversary edition from March 3-12, 2023, opening with Somewhere in Queens, directed by comedian and actor Ray Romano, who will attend. The festival will close with The Lost King, directed by Stephen Frears on Saturday, March 11.
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Love to Love You, Donna Summer Documentary Premieres at Berlin Film Festival
Love to Love You, Donna Summer © Courtesy of Estate of Donna Summer Sudano Berlinale Special program of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival finalized its lineup with 2 new titles – the documentary Love to Love You, Donna Summer, and 100 Years of Disney Animation – a Shorts Celebration. Additionally, cinematographer Caroline Champetier will be honored at the festival with the Berlinale Camera.
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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2023 Prizes. A Thousand and One, Going to Mars, Scrapper Win Grand Jury Prizes
Teyana Taylor and Aaron Kingsley in A Thousand and One by A.V. Rockwell Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Focus Features Sundance Film Festival awarded the 2023 Grand Jury Prizes to A Thousand and One for U.S. Dramatic, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project for U.S. Documentary, Scrapper for World Cinema Dramatic, and The Eternal Memory for World Cinema Documentary. The NEXT Innovator Award was awarded to KOKOMO CITY.
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Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris to Open 28th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Festival in NYC
Revoir Paris directed by Alice Winocour Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris will open the 28th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the annual festival of contemporary French filmmaking, taking place March 2–12 at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City.