The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) returns for the 37th edition of the Festival taking place from September 23 to October 2, 2021. Due to COVID, the festival will be a hybrid event, taking place both virtually and in person at select cinemas.
Festival of Cinema NYC returns for its 5th year, as a live in-person 10-day event, taking place September 24-October 3, 2021, with over 120 independent films at the Regal UA Midway in Forest Hills, Queens.
Under the theme “See The World From Where You Are,” the Ashland Independent Film Festival presents 14 films from 15 countries for the 32nd annual World Film Week(s). The event will run virtually September 17-30, with a special outdoor screening of the documentary Torn at Lithia Park on September 18.
The Currents section for the 59th New York Film Festival includes 15 features and 36 short films, representing 27 countries. The Opening Night selection is Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s (Arabian Nights, NYFF53) The Tsugua Diaries, a beguiling pandemic-era tale about three housemates in lockdown—one of several films in the section responding to the current health crisis through varying lenses; others include Shengze Zhu’s A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, a meditation on urban spaces before and after the COVID outbreak, and Denis Côté’s Social Hygiene, an absurdist comedy in which characters exchange barbs from a humorous distance.
Toronto International Film Festival rounds out the 2021 lineup with the In Conversation With… series, Special Events. TIFF Industry Selects, and also announced is TIFF’s 2021 Platform Prize Jury
Two new films – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog will compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award in the Perlak section at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition.
French actress Marion Cotillard will receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition. She will collect the honorary award on Friday, September 17, during the Festival opening ceremony.
The world premiere of Michael Steiner’s hostage drama And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead (Und morgen seid ihr tot) about two Swiss Taliban hostages opens the 17th Zurich Film Festival on September 23, 2021.
Calgary International Film Festival 2021 announced the Generation Next and Youth By Youth films chosen by 9 local high school students. Featuring a diverse range of genres and stories from around the world, these six films reflect the state of indie cinema as curated through a youth perspective. For audiences of all ages, these films will screen as part of the festival, from September 23 to October 3, 2021.
Beginning on September 9, 2021, Toronto International Film Festival is requiring that Festival staff, audience members and visitors entering the Festival venues from September 9 to 18 will be required to show either proof they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or proof that they have tested negative for COVID-19 within 48 hours prior to entering any TIFF venue.
