The 2023 Oxford Film Festival taking place March 1-5, 2023 announced the lineup of 143 films and media projects for the 20th Anniversary annual edition.
Film Festivals
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Little Richard: I am Everything to Open Oxford Film Festival 20th Anniversary Lineup
Little Richard in Little Richard: I Am Everything by Lisa Cortes
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BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 Reveals Lineup
XX + XY directed by Soh-Yoon Lee The 37th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival revealed its full program of 58 features and 90 shorts from 41 countries, divided into three thematic strands: Hearts, Bodies and Minds.
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AMERICAN OUTLAWS Trailer. Sean McEwen’s True Crime Drama Premieres at Santa Barbara Film Festival
American Outlaws directed by Sean McEwen Here is the first look trailer for American Outlaws, the true crime drama of three siblings facing the possibility of prison take matters into their own hands with a cross-country crime spree. The film is based on a true story and the GQ article “The Whole True Story of the Dougherty Gang” by Kathy Dobie.
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Andor Actor Diego Luna to Receive Variety Virtuoso Award at Miami Film Festival
Diego Luna in Lucasfilm’s ANDOR ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. Andor actor Diego Luna will be honored with the first Variety Virtuoso Award at the Miami Film Festival, which will take place from March 3-12, 2023. The award presentation will take place on Saturday, March 4, to celebrate Luna’s excellence in acting, directing and producing over the years.
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LET’S MEET HALFWAY, CIRCUS OF THE SCARS, BROADWAY and THIS IS NATIONAL WAKE Win at 25th SF IndieFest
Circus of the Scars directed by Cory Wees – The Torture King 1992 photo by Jan Gregor San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF IndieFest) announced the award winners for the 25th anniversary of the festival, which came to an end this Sunday, February 12th.
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Delikado and Theatre of Violence Headline Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London’s Documentary Film Line-up
Delikado directed by Karl Malakunas The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 27th year in London, presents a line-up of 10 award-winning, international documentary films at the Barbican from March 16-24, 2023, and digitally across the UK and Ireland on the festival website from March 20-26, 2023.
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THIS WORLD IS NOT MY OWN, Innovative Documentary on Folk Artist Nellie Mae Rowe Premieres at SXSW
This World is Not My Own directed by Opendox (Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell) Chewing-gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case and the segregated south – it’s all part of Nellie Mae Rowe’s boundless universe.
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Melissa Tittl’s UFO WITNESS Documentary to World Premiere at MidWest WeirdFest
Melissa Tittl with researcher Willia Henry in Code 12 Directed and presented by Melissa Tittl, Code 12, a new documentary on the secret nature of reality world premieres at the 7th annual MidWest WeirdFest.
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Omar El Zohairy’s Feathers Wins Best Film at Joburg Film Festival
Feathers directed by Omar El Zohairy The Egyptian feature film Feathers directed by Omar El Zohairy, was named Best Film at the 5th edition of the Joburg Film Festival in in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. This absurdist tale about a patriarch transformed into a chicken has a lot to say about Egyptian culture and the role of women.
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64 Short Films to Compete at 35th Filmfest Dresden
Chemkids by Julius Gintaras Blum 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.
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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.