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.
Film Festivals
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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
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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.
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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.