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.
Florencia Krochik’s The Rest of Us, a feature documentary about DACA kids shot over a decade, won Best Picture at the 13th DTLA Film Festival. Other award winners included director Martin Torrez’ “The Great American Low Rider Tradition,” a feature documentary about the Lowrider culture of East Los Angeles, which took the Audience Favorite Award, and Sophie Galibert, named Best Director for “Cherry,” a narrative dramedy that tackles the hot-button topic of abortion.
Indie Memphis Film Festival added more films to its 2022 slate including this year’s Centerpiece Presentation, Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection, fresh from its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Jeremy Pope in a breakout performance as a gay black Marine who has been cast out by his mother (Gabrielle Union). This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Indie Memphis Film Festival, and will run from October 19th through 24th.
Blonde, based on the book of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates and starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe is the surprise film of the 70th San Sebastian Festival. The screening of the film will be attended by Ana de Armas and director, Andrew Dominik.
Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans won the People’s Choice Award at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story directed by Eric Appel won the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award and Black Ice directed by Hubert Davis won the People’s Choice Documentary Award.
The 2022 Hamptons International Festival (HIFF) unveiled the full slate of films including the Closing Night presentation of the New York premiere of SR., directed by Chris Smith, and the Centerpiece screening of Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. The 30th edition of the festival will feature a lineup of films that are 54% female-directed and represent 34 countries from around the world.