The 2023 Harlem International Film Festival (Hi) unveiled a music themed lineup of 64 films, including 35 features (14 narrative, 21 documentary), 29 shorts (20 narrative, 9 documentary), 2 television episodes, and 2 VR projects for its 18th edition – a hybrid event taking place in-person May 18-28.
Telluride’s Mountainfilm film festival returns for its 45th edition on Memorial Day weekend, May 25–29, 2023 promising more than 100 adventure-packed films.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Carlos, a feature-length documentary film about the father of Latin American jazz fusion and global icon, Carlos Santana. Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Rudy Valdez (The Sentence, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints), the documentary world premieres at 2023 Tribeca Festival.
Sirocco and the Kingdom of Air Streams by Benoît Chieux will open the 2023 Annecy Festival on Sunday June 11th.
Sucks To Be The Moon from directors Tyler March & Eric Paperth took the top prize at the 7th Annual Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival, winning the Best of Fest Grand Prize.
The Netflix satirical conspiracy caper film They Cloned Tyrone starring Golden Globe winner John Boyega (Small Axe, Attack the Block, Star Wars), Teyonah Parris (The Marvels, WandaVision) and Oscar winner Jamie Foxx (Ray, Just Mercy) will open the 2023 American Black Film Festival (ABFF). Emmy-winning writer, producer and actor Lena Waithe is ABFF’s 2023 Festival Ambassador.
From the Ukraine conflict to transgender rights, the 2023 Human Rights Watch Film Festival will present 10 new films from May 31 to June 11, 2023 in New York at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center.
The 2023 Tribeca Festival kicks off on Wednesday, June 7 with the North American premiere of Kiss the Future, a documentary that follows the story of a community of underground musicians and creatives throughout the nearly four-year-long siege of Sarajevo, as well as the 1997 U2 concert celebrating the liberation of the Bosnian capital. Kiss the Future, produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Sarah Anthony, and featuring U2’s Bono, The Edge, and Adam Clayton, officially opens the 12-day festival and sets Tribeca’s tone with its theme of artists-activists.
Producer Marianne Slot, known for working with filmmakers like Lars von Trier, Lucrecia Martel and Lisandro Alonso will receive the Raimondo Rezzonico Award at Locarno Film Festival.
Paul Sng’s Tish, an intimate portrait of British documentary photographer Tish Murtha, and her daughter’s fight to preserve her legacy will open this year’s 2023 Sheffield DocFest.
Nantucket Film Festival unveiled the first selection of films for the 28th annual edition, which will run from June 21-26, 2023 at the Dreamland Theater, the ‘Sconset Casino, and the White Heron Theatre.
The 49th Seattle International Film Festival, taking place held May 11-21, 2023, will screen 264 films representing 74 countries, including 94 narrative features, 45 documentaries, four archival films, two secret screenings, and 125 short films.