Actress Julianne Moore will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31 – September 10, 2022), which will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards.
Ahead of World Premiere at Fantasia Film Festival, the first trailer debuted for the AI sci-fi thriller The Artifice Girl, the feature directorial debut from writer/director Franklin Ritch, starring Ritch alongside Tatum Matthews, David Girard, Sinda Nichols, and Lance Henriksen.
Sanaa Lathan’s directorial feature film debut On the Come Up will have its World Premiere at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Popcorn Frights Film Festival is back for its eighth edition, August 11-21, 2022, opening with the World Premiere of Tiny Cinema, Tyler Cornack’s follow-up to his acclaimed provocative feature debut Butt Boy. In his new twisted anthology, a mysterious stranger tells jolting tales of terror of seemingly unconnected strangers whose lives will change in incredible and bizarre ways forever.
Aftersun, Charlotte Wells’ critically acclaimed debut feature film will open the 75th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival. Aftersun won a Critics’ Week Award during this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Director and screenwriter Paul Joseph Schrader will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of film. The festival will also host a special screening of The Card Counter starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish.
The Waco-based Deep in the Heart Film Festival announced the film lineup of 123 films (5 features, 109 shorts and 9 music videos) for its 6th edition, which will combine in-theater screenings July 21-24, followed by an online encore July 24-30.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the 2023 festival will take place in Santa Barbara, CA from February 8 through February 18, 2023.
The Iranian social drama Summer with Hope directed by Sadaf Foroughi won the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In the film, a young swimmer is training for the national championships with his new coach, but the relationship between the two young men elicits disapproval from the people around them. “We live in a world full of violence and discrimination. I hope that our stories bring peace and tranquility,” said director Sadaf Foroughi to the jury and her colleagues.
British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016), will receive the Excellence Award Davide Campari at Locarno Film Festival, and present the Festival’s opening film Bullet Train, by David Leitch.
Festival of Cinema NYC returns for its 6th year, as a live in-person 10-day event, August 5 – August 14. Taking place at the Regal UA Midway theater in Forest Hills, Queens, FOC NYC will showcase 124 independent films from more than 25 countries, with over 90 anticipated filmmakers to be in attendance. The festival opens with the New York premiere of Casey Nelson and Marchelle Thurman’s Black, White and the Greys, and closes with the New York Premiere screening of Michael Glover Smith’s Relative.
Prison 77 (Modelo 77) by Spanish filmmaker, Alberto Rodríguez, will open San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition out of competition. Starring Miguel Herrán and Javier Gutiérrez, the movie is a political thriller set in Spain .