The Oscar® Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival will host its 17th edition as a hybrid event from September 23-October 1, 2021 showcasing over 300 short films from over 40 countries. The hybrid event will be both in-person, with screenings at the historic TCL Chinese 6 Theatres and panels at the innovative Japan House in Hollywood, CA, and virtual via the official festival streaming platform Bitpix.
Tallgrass Film Festival gave a first look at some of the spotlight screenings at this fall’s 19th edition of the festival, opening with Steven Yeun, Beanie Feldstein, and Richard Jenkins in The Humans, Stephen Karam’s adaptation of his Tony Award–winning multi-generational family drama.
Burbank International Film Festival (BIFF) returns in person this year at the Burbank AMC 16 Theaters for live screenings and events, running from September 9-12, 2021. The festival opens with Mads Mikkelsens’ award-winning film Riders of Justice on Thursday, September 9, 2021.
After a 30-month absence, the in-person HorrorHound Weekend and Film Festival returns to the Sharonville Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the weekend of September 10th to the 12th, featuring events including the acclaimed H2F2 Film Festival.
From the world-famous Foo Fighters, to Norwegian pop stars, and electronic music’s female pioneers, the Calgary International Film Festival’s Music on Screen films are as diverse as ever. From September 23 to October 3, 2021, the 22nd Annual Festival will connect its audience through the universal language of music.
Two days before its official Swiss theatrical release and on the same day of the world premiere in London, the new James Bond movie No Time to Die will premiere at the 17th Zurich Film Festival on Tuesday, September 28 accompanied by a retrospective of Daniel Craig’s Bond movies..
ear for eye, the much anticipated second feature film from filmmaker and playwright debbie tucker green will world premiere at the 65th BFI London Film Festival and exclusively the same evening on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. It is the second feature film from the BAFTA and Olivier Award-winning writer and director.
Fantasia International Film Festival brought its 25th edition to a close with the award ceremony, and the South Korean film Voice of Silence directed by Hong Eui-jeong won the top prize – Best Film along with Best Actor for Yoo Ah-in. In the thriller film, two anonymous crime-scene cleaners working for different gangs are assigned an unprecedented task that thrusts them both on a descent into hell: they must kidnap a child.
Out on Film announced the lineup of films and events for the 34th edition of the Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ film festival taking place September 24-October 3, 2021. The Oscar® qualifying film festival returns to theaters this year as part of its hybrid presentation.
Grammy Award–winning music icon and activist Dionne Warwick will be honored with the Special Tribute Award, and Night Raiders director and Saskatchewan-born Cree/Métis filmmaker Danis Goulet will receive this year’s TIFF Emerging Talent Award at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
Academy Award-winning actor Tilda Swinton will narrate Goliath: Playing With Reality, a virtual reality experience directed by Barry Gene Murphy and May Abdalla, set to World Premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 1.
