For 12 days from October 2 to 13, the 63rd BFI London Film Festival (LFF) will showcase 229 feature films including 41 documentaries, 7 animations, 13 archive restorations and 7 artists’ moving image features. The program also includes 116 short films.
It’s Labor Day Weekend, which can only mean it’s time for the 46th edition of the Telluride Film Festival. This year’s festival will screen over seventy-five feature films, short films and revival programs representing twenty-seven countries, along with special artist Tributes, Conversations, Panels, Student Programs and Festivities. Telluride Film Festival takes place over the Labor Day weekend from Friday, August 30 to Monday, September 2, 2019.
The world premiere of Bruno Manser – Die Stimme des Regenwaldes (Bruno Manser – The Voice of the Rainforest) directed by Niklaus Hilber and starring Sven Schelker, will open the 15th Zurich Film Festival on September 26., 2019.
The 63rd BFI London Film Festival revealed the ten films in contention for the Best Film Award in this year’s Official Competition selection. This year’s selection spans a range of genres; from gothic psychodrama and hallucinogenic thriller, to provocative period piece and taut social commentary.
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival returns to Brooklyn from October 17th to 24th, opening with the North American Premiere of the spellbinding THE BEACH HOUSE, Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Brooklyn-shot DANIEL ISN’T REAL hits NYC as Centerpiece film, and a trio of bold emerging South American visions in Fear in Focus: Brazil sidebar.
The three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone will head the Jury of the 15th Zurich Film Festival’s International Competition. He will also present a restored version of the “The Doors” and his doc series “The Putin Interviews”.
The International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI picked ROMA as best film of 2019. The organization considers all films released after 1 July 2018. The other finalists were Dolor y Gloria (Pain and Glory), by Pedro Almodóvar, for which Antonio Banderas won the best actor award at Cannes, Gisaenchung / Parasite, by Bong Joon-ho, Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival, which will participate in Perlak, and The Favourite, by Yorgos Lanthimos, winner of an award at Venice 2018 and for which Olivia Colman won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
The 2019 AFI Latin American Film Festival will take place September 12–October 2 at the historic AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD. Celebrating its 30th edition this year, the festival honors Ibero-American cultural connections during National Hispanic Heritage Month. This year’s festival will showcase 53 films, nearly 40% of the films are directed by women.
Sixteen Spanish films including a number of debut films and works by directors with an extensive career, such as Pedro Almodóvar and David Trueba will be showcased in Made in Spain program at the 2019 San Sebastian Festival.
Timely and vital, the documentary Parkland Rising directed by two-time Emmy Award winner Cheryl Horner McDonough, follows the high-school students and families who became fierce leaders of the national movement for gun reform after the February 2018 shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida. The documentary film, executive produced by Katie Couric and will.i.am, will World Premiere at the upcoming 20th anniversary Woodstock Film Festival, taking place October 2 to 6, 2019.
The 33rd edition of AFI FEST presented by Audi will open with the World Premiere of Makeready and Universal Pictures’ QUEEN & SLIM directed by two-time Grammy winner Melina Matsoukas (AFI Class of 2005) and written by Emmy winner Lena Waithe from a story by Waithe and James Frey. The film is a consciousness-raising love story that confronts the staggering human toll of racism and the life-shattering price of violence.
