Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, the most open competitive section of the 2019 San Sebastian International Film Festival, will include 19 competing films, among which are the latest works from filmmakers such as Bertrand Bonello, Mati Diop, Takashi Miike and Diao Yinan.
The 57th New York Film Festival taking place September 27 to October 13, 2019 revealed the complete lineup for the Special Events, Shorts, and Talks sections.
Austin Film Festival (AFF) announced the first wave of films to be included in their 26th Anniversary edition, taking place October 24 to 31, 2019. AFF will screen legendary writer/director Terrence Malick’s latest film A Hidden Life, starring August Diehl and Valerie Pachner. The film follows the true story of an Austrian farmer who refused to yield to Nazi forces in World War II. Also screening at AFF is the biopic Harriet, written by Kasi Lemons and Gregory Allen Howard and starring Cynthia Erivo, Joe Alwyn, and Jannelle Monáe, following the harrowing journey of American hero Harriet Tubman. In addition, AFF will screen The Truth from writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke.
The 24th Busan International Film Festival has selected Jung Il-Sung for the Korean Cinema Retrospective. Jung, a renowned cinematographer, has worked on the history of Korean films and left a significant mark on unique filmmaking as a master of cinematography.
Three of the most important European directors on the contemporary panorama, the debut film by a well-known Portuguese actor, the second movie by a Brazilian filmmaker produced by Darren Aronofsky and the latest work from one of today’s most interesting Tibetan filmmakers join the list of films in competition for the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival’s 67th edition.
Penélope Cruz will receive the Donostia Award, along with the screening of her latest film, Wasp Network, directed by Olivier Assayas, at the San Sebastian Festival 2019.
This year’s Spotlight on Documentary section of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27–October 13) features incisive portraits of iconic figures, intimate reports from inside the American prison system, New York stories both personal and political, and much more.
Ten new films including the latest works by Casey Affleck, Robert Eggers, Hirokazu Koreeda, Pablo Larraín, Céline Sciamma, Makoto Shinkai and Steven Soderbergh, will be featured in the Perlak section at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Furthermore, The Climb, a comedy directed by Michael Angelo Covino, will close the section out of competition.
The first edition of the Accra Animation Film Festival (AAFFia) recently wrapped after shining a spotlight on African animation as well as hosting the third leg of the Pan-African Animation du Monde preliminary rounds. Three creators and animators will progress to the Continental Finals taking place at DISCOP Johannesburg later this year.
Fantastic Fest 2019 announced its second wave of programming, and writer-director Rian Johnson’s hotly anticipated new mystery KNIVES OUT as closing night film. A tribute to the work of Agatha Christie, KNIVES OUT stars Daniel Craig as debonair Detective Benoit Blanc, sent to investigate the death of a renowned crime novelist played by Christopher Plummer.
British actor Tim Roth was lauded with the honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of his ‘exceptional contribution to the art of film.’
Knives Out, written and directed by Rian Johnson, and starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Colette, Katherine Langford and Christopher Plummer, will be this year’s American Express Gala of the 63rd BFI London Film Festival. This fresh and modern take on a classic ‘whodunnit’, which comes from Lionsgate and MRC, will receive its European Premiere on Tuesday, October 8 at the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square.