The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will open this year’s 33rd edition on October 31 with Underdog, directed by Masaharu Take, and Hokusai, directed by Hajime Hashimoto and starring Yuya Yagira and Min Tanaka, will close the festival on November 9.
Fantastic Fest has gone virtual for 2020 edition, with all new features and live events available FREE to view on the Alamo On Demand platform for anyone in the United States. The festival will be bookended by werewolf films – opening with TEDDY by France’s Boukherma brothers and closing with Amelia Moses’s thriller BLOODTHIRSTY.
The Nashville Film Festival announced its official program selections for its Shorts Programs, Episodics, NextGen and VR Competition Programs for the 51st edition of the festival, taking place virtually from October 1-7, 2020. Selections for the Shorts Programs, Episodics, NextGen and VR Competition Programs come from over 20 countries and cover diverse genres, including documentary, narrative, and animated shorts. Additional programming announcements for Nashville Film Festival’s virtual event will continue through early September.
Produced by members of the team that has brought SF IndieFest’s Another Hole in the Head (AHITH) to San Francisco for 16 years, Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension is the first online film festival to be presented entirely through the Zoom app. Taking place from September 24th through the 29th, 2020, it will showcase Independent films from the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Dark & Off-the-Wall Comedy, Animation, and Art/Experimental–as well as Music Videos and Documentaries with related content. 13 Features and 97 Short Films will be streamed over the six days of the fest.
The 32nd Filmfest Dresden international short film festival in Dresden, Germany, announced the winners of its National and International Competitions at the awards ceremony in the Schauburg Dresden festival cinema.
Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Zhao who was not able to travel to Europe for the festival, accepted remotely from Los Angeles. Zhao adapted Nomadland from journalist Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century and follows Fern (Frances McDormand), a woman who, after the economic collapse of her company town in rural Nevada, packs her van and sets off on the road to explore a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.
The Nashville Film Festival announces its official program selections for its Graveyard Shift Features & Shorts Competition, Animated Features Competition, Spotlight: Japan, US Independents and World Cinema Programs for the 51st edition of the festival, taking place virtually from October 1-7, 2020.
The Woodstock Film Festival announced the official lineup of more than 100 short and feature-length films for its 21st edition, taking place September 30th – October 4th, 2020.
Regina King’s directorial debut ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…, starring Eli Goree, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Leslie Odom, Jr. and Aldis Hodge will close this year’s 28th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival taking place October 8 – 14, 2020.
The European Film Academy and the Berlin International Film Festival issued a statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of writer, human rights lawyer, and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh.
Busan International Film Festival today decided to postpone this year’s festival by 2 weeks and to downsize significantly. The 25th Busan International Film Festival, previously planned to be held from October 7th to October 16th, will now take place from October 21st to October 30th.
