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 .
Locarno Film Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary from August 3 through 13, and unveiled the lineup of films, which, in keeping with the event’s long history, will boldly showcase cinema in all its forms, old and new.
Clement Virgo’s film Brother will make its festival debut with a World Premiere at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
The 53rd Nashville Film Festival will open with The Return of Tanya Tucker the moving new documentary by Kathlyn Horan chronicling the collaboration between Brandi Carlile, Shooter Jennings and Tanya Tucker for the latter’s triumphant return to the stage.
The Opening Night Gala of this year’s 66th BFI London Film Festival will be Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, starring Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee and introducing Alisha Weir as the eponymous Matilda.
