The 53rd Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm) taking place September 29 – October 5 both in-person and virtuall will feature more than 150 titles, including 38 feature-length film.
Film Festivals
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‘Four Samosas’ Launches 20th San Francisco South Asian Film Festival in September
Four Samosas directed by Ravi Kapoor 3rd i’s 20th Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival: Bollywood and Beyond (SFISAFF) will take place at the Roxie and Castro theaters in San Francisco from September 23-25!
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10 Films to Compete for Irizar Basque Film Award at 70th San Sebastian Festival
Dear Grandma (El vasco) directed by Jabi Elortegi Seventeen films – thirteen features and four shorts – make up the Basque participation at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition. Zinemira, the section specifically dedicated to Basque cinema at San Sebastian Festival will showcase seven fictions and non-fictions. A total of ten films, four of these, being a world premiere at the Festival, will compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award alongside another six works screening in other Festival sections.
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NANNY Director Nikyatu Jusu to Receive MVFF Award for Feature Debut at Mill Valley Film Festival
Nikyatu Jusu The Mill Valley Film Festival will honor writer, director Nikyatu Jusu with a Spotlight program including a special onstage conversation, screening of the 2022 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and first feature Nanny, and the MVFF Award for Feature Debut.
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Zurich Film Festival Launches New ‘Sounds’ Section Featuring Machine Gun Kelly’s ‘TAURUS’
Machine Gun Kelly in Taurus Rapper Machine Gun Kelly presents the drama Taurus, in which he himself embodies a music star, and executive producer Roland Emmerich’s team will present the world premiere of the modern Mozart film adaptation The Magic Flute in the new “Sounds” section of the 18th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 22 – Oct 2) screening music films and events with musicians.
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Hildur Guðnadóttir and Sally El Hosaini to be Honored at TIFF Tribute Awards at Toronto Film Festival
Hildur Guðnadóttir and Sally El Hosaini [Credit: Camille Blake (left); London Professional Headshots (right)] Academy Award®–winning Icelandic artist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir will be honored with the Variety Artisan Award, and Award-winning Welsh Egyptian filmmaker and screenwriter Sally El Hosaini will be honored with the TIFF Emerging Talent Award at the annual TIFF Tribute Awards at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
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66th BFI London Film Festival Announces 8 Films in Official Competition
Les damnés ne pleurent pas (The Damned Don’t Cry) by Fyzal Boulifa From a thrilling and uncompromising Argentinian political drama to a chilling British folk horror tale; and a breathtaking story of brotherly love to the poignancy of family displacement during the Syrian conflict in Damascus, 8 films have been selected for the Official Competition for the Best Film Award at the 66th BFI London Film Festival
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Sally El Hosaini’s Syrian Refugee Drama THE SWIMMERS Opens 18th Zurich Film Festival
The Swimmers directed by Sally El Hosaini The European Premiere of Sally El Hosaini’s drama The Swimmers based on the inspirational true-life story of the Mardini sisters’ will open the 18th Zurich Film Festival on September 22, 2022.
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Godfrey Reggio to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Santa Fe Film Festival
Godfrey Reggio Award-Winning filmmaker Godfrey Reggio will receive the Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF) Lifetime Achievement Award at the festival’s 14th edition, presented this upcoming October. The Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony will be followed by the World Premiere of Reggio’s latest film, Once Within a Time.
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22 Films Selected for Zabaltegi-Tabakalera at San Sebastian Festival
Piggy (Cerdita) directed by Carlota Pereda Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will showcase 22 films: 13 features, eight shorts and one mid-length movie at the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition, including films by Santiago Loza alongside Ruth Beckermann, Lee Chang-dong, Bi Gan, Natalia López Gallardo and Hlynur Pálmason. Pending the addition of another title, for the time being
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Mexican Comedy LOVE & MATHEMATICS by Claudia Sainte-Luce to World Premiere at TIFF
Love & Mathematics (Amor y matemáticas) directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce The Mexican comedy Love & Mathematics (Amor y matemáticas), the fifth feature film from director Claudia Sainte-Luce (The Amazing Catfish), a satirical and engaging comedy of the ambitions and aspirations of upper-middle-class Mexican society, will have its world premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema showcase at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), taking place September 8-18, 2022.
