The 2022 Harlem International Film Festival (Hi) announced official selections for its 17th edition – a hybrid event taking place May 5-15. The film festival will open with a gala presentation of three films making world premieres at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd.). The films include Jamal Joseph’s A Gorgeous Mosaic, Ano Okero’s An American Street Mural in Harlem, and Myra Lewis’ Love is in the Legend.
Directed by Nils Gaup, the feature documentary Images of a Nordic Drama will have its International Premiere at Hot Docs 2022.
Written and directed by Saim Sadiq, Joyland will be the first Pakistani feature ever to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Joyland will compete in the Official Selection’s Un Certain Regard and will also vie for the Caméra d’Or.
Menudo: Forever Young, the four-part documentary from filmmakers Angel Manuel Soto (Max Original “Charm City Kings”) and Kristofer Ríos (“Havana Skate Days”), will have its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival on June 11 in New York.
Calgary Underground Film Festival will close on Friday, April 29 with Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a live-action comedy starring Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini, based on the short YouTube films of the same name.
Cannes Film Festival revealed the 9 shorts presented in the short films competition from the following 11 countries: China, South Korea, Costa Rica, the United States, France, Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, and Nepal. The Short Film Palme d’or will be awarded on Saturday, May 28 during the closing ceremony.
Cannes Film Festival added more films to the lineup for the 75th edition of the festival, taking place May 17 to May 28.
Directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy, the documentary An Act of Worship, will have its World Premiere in the Documentary Competition at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
The 48th Annual Seattle International Film Festival will close on Sunday, April 24 with Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane.
Under the banner “Visions of Freedom”, the 29th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) will run from May 12 to 17, 2022 at Film at Lincoln Center (FLC).
The 2022 Tribeca Festival, set to run from June 8-19, announced its lineup of feature and short narrative, documentary, and animated films. The festival will showcase 111 feature films and 16 online premieres from 151 filmmakers across 40 countries.
The French drama film Scarlet (L’envol) by Pietro Marcello will have its world premiere as the opening night film of the 54th edition of Directors’ Fortnight on May 18, 2022. Scarlet stars Raphaël Thiery (Raphaël), Juliette Jouan (Juliette), Louis Garrel (Jean), and Noémie Lvovsky (Adeline).