The documentary film, The Story Won’t Die, which demonstrates the resilience of exiled Syrian artist-refugees who process their pain and circumstances through music, painting, dancing and other mediums will premiere at the 2021 AFI Docs Film Festival
Director, screenwriter, and actor John Landis will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor award at the Locarno Film Festival. Landis will also join a panel discussion with the audience, while Locarno74 will feature screenings of three landmark titles from his career: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), Trading Places (1983) and Innocent Blood (1992).
Mr Bachmann and his Class (Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse) by Maria Speth won the Berlinale Competition Audience Award at Summer Special edition of the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. In the German film, a charismatic teacher helps his students, who all come from different countries originally, with the key to feeling at home in Germany and becoming citizens of the world.
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) returns August 5-22, opening with the Australian premiere of Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife The Legend Of Molly Johnson. A vivid reckoning with Australia’s colonial history, the revisionist outback western speaks emphatically to the realities, both past and present, of racial injustice – told through the lens of an Indigenous woman. The film completes a multi-format trilogy based on Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story, which began with Purcell’s award-winning play and subsequent novel The Drover’s Wife.
As a way of embodying its commitment to the environment, the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has chosen a selection of films on the environment in its Cinema for the climate special section.
Yana Ugrekhelidze’s Instructions for Survival (Germany) was awarded the Compass-Perspektive-Award at Berlin Film Festival Summer Special. The award is presented to the best film from the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programof the Berlinale Summer Special tonight.
Since October of 2019, millions of Chileans have taken to the streets demanding a new constitution, written by the people and guided by the principles of equity and dignity. Primera tells their story.
The upcoming 60th edition of San Sebastian Festival will showcase the retrospective Flowers in Hell, on the Golden Age of Korean Cinema, which had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic. It includes ten titles dating from the 50s and the 60s and will be accompanied by a monographic book published by the Festival, the Filmoteca Española and the Centro Cultural Coreano en España.
Here is the first clip from Stockholm Syndrome, the new documentary on rapper A$AP Rocky which recently world-premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to a sold-out crowd as part the festival’s Juneteenth programming. The documentary covers everything from A$AP Rocky’s music and style, to his experience with the Swedish judicial system.
The North Bend Film Festival returns this summer with a hybrid festival taking place July 15-18, 2021 with the in-person portion of the fest held at historic art deco North Bend Theatre.
Dune, the highly anticipated big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction bestseller of the same name, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049), will have its out-of-competition world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1—11, 2021).
The Novice, Brighton 4th, and Ascension took top honors in U.S. Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary competitions at the 20th annual Tribeca Festival.