11 investigative feature films are set to be showcased at Double Exposure film festival and symposium series’ eighth season, taking place in-person October 13-16 in Washington, DC. Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s The Grab is the opening night selection, Matt Heineman’s Retrograde takes the closing night spot, and Darren Foster’s American Pain will be the centerpiece screening.
Tobias Lindholm’s The Good Nurse screens as the Fiction Centerpiece of the 2022 Montclair Film Festival, taking place October 21-30, in Montclair, NJ, and Academy Award® winner Eddie Redmayne will be honored with the festival’s Performance Of The Year Award. Tobias Lindholm along with Eddie Redmayne will attend a post-screening Q&A with Stephen Colbert.
The Blue Caftan directed by Maryam Touzani opens the 2022 Arab Film Festival running November 11-20, 2022 with a hybrid program of in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA and virtual events.
In its 13th year, the 2022 Twin Cities Film Fest showcases more than 140 movies from October 20-29 in a hybrid format – at the Showplace ICON Theaters and Kitchen at The Shops at West End, and online.
The 2023 Jacksonville Film Festival will showcase 114 films from 22 countries over four-days from February 3-6, 2023. The 2023 Festival lineup consists of an astonishing 60% produced or directed by women.
The 66th BFI London Film Festival added the UK Premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance, to the 2022 program, screening in a Special Presentation. Bones and All is the tender story of first love between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they embark on a thousand-mile odyssey through Reagan’s America.
The Mill Valley Film Festival announced the 3 films nominated for the 2022 Mind The Gap (MTG) Creation Prize of $10,000. Awarded to a first- or second-time Mind the Gap filmmaker, the prize recognizes exciting new voices in cinema who demonstrate creativity of vision and exceptional use of the film medium.
The Road to Galena was awarded the Grand Prix and Best Director prize for Joe Hall at the 2022 Prague Independent Film Festival (PIFF) in the stunning historical cinema Lucerna in the capital of Czechia. Other top prizes went to Troubled Mindsvby Raitis and Lauris Abele for Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay prizes.
The third edition of the BFI London Film Festival Works-in-Progress showcase will present nine new feature films and documentaries by UK-based filmmakers as part of the Festival’s UK Talent Days focus.
Six Red Carpet Premiere films including Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu; the U.S. Premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson; Is That Black Enough for You?!?, directed by Elvis Mitchell; Living, directed by Oliver Hermanus; She Said, directed by Maria Schrader; and The Son, directed by Florian Zeller, will screen at AFI FEST 2022, November 2-6. All films will screen at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre.
Filmmaker Carlos Saura, who had planned to present his latest film, The Walls Can Talk (Las paredes hablan), at San Sebastian Festival, will not be able to travel due to a fall suffered at the last minute. The mishap had no serious consequences, but it has prevented him from travelling to San Sebastian.
Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras will be honored with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs at the 35th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam taking place in person from November 9 to 20, 2022. The festival will host two curated focus programs, Around Masculinity and Playing Reality, in addition to the IDFA DocLab theme of Nervous Systems – IDFA’s new media section of in-person digital and XR programming.