Benita is an intimate portrait of New York filmmaker Benita Raphan, who died by suicide during the height of the Covid pandemic.
Film Festivals
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Tom Stern’s ‘Butthole Surfers’ Headlines 13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival Lineup
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt by Tom Stern Calgary Underground Film Festival revealed the program of 15 features and 14 shorts for the 13th edition of CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival taking place November 19-23, 2025.
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Delroy Lindo, Beau Bridges Among Honorees at Coronado Island Film Festival’s Leonard Maltin Industry Tribute Awards
Delroy Lindo in Sinners (Warner Bros.) Actors Beau Bridges and Delroy Lindo, screenwriter Austin Kolodney, stunt pro Heidi Moneymaker, costume designer Deborah L. Scott along with music editor Adam Smalley have been named the honorees of the 2025 Leonard Maltin Industry Tribute Awards Gala at the Coronado Island Film Festival.
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32nd Austin Film Festival Winners – ‘A Man Walks Down the Street’ and ‘Searching for Satyrus’ Win Top Awards
A Man Walks Down the Street by Yuval Hadadi (Costanza Film Distribution) Yuval Hadadi’s A Man Walks Down the Street has won the Narrative Feature Award and Rena Effendi’s Searching for Satyrus took the award for Best Documentary Feature Award at the 32nd Austin Film Festival.
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Hamnet and ‘We Are Pyramids’ Take Top Awards at Twin Cities Film Fest
Hamnet by Chloé Zhao Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet walked away with the top honor of Best Narrative Feature at the 2025 Twin Cities Film Fest. The film starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley reimagines the life and loss that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet, exploring love, grief, and artistic legacy through an intimate, poetic lens.
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AFI FEST 2025 Reveals Winners of Oscar Eligible Short Film Awards
Majonezë directed by Giulia Grandinetti AFI FEST 2025 revealed the winners of the Grand Jury Prize winners for Live Action Short, Documentary Short and Animated Short, now eligible for consideration in the 2026 Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short and Best Animated Short.
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‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Star Colman Domingo to Receive the Lumière Award at Philadelphia Film Festival
Colman Domingo (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency) Colman Domingo will receive the Lumière Award at the 34th Philadelphia Film Festival, “recognizing his extraordinary contributions to the art of cinema and his deep ties to the city of Philadelphia.”
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Regina Hall to Receive Spotlight Award for ‘One Battle After Another’ at SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Regina Hall in One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) Regina Hall will be honored at the 2025 SCAD Savannah Film Festival with the Spotlight Award for her performance in One Battle After Another, the new action comedy from writer/director/producer Paul Thomas Anderson.
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‘A Poet’ and ‘Natchez’ Take Top Jury Awards at 34th Philadelphia Film Festival
A Poet by Simón Mesa Soto A Poet directed by Simón Mesa Soto took the Jury prize for Best Narrative Feature, and Natchez directed by Suzannah Herbert won for Documentary Feature at the 34th Philadelphia Film Festival.
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‘Sirât’ ‘One Golden Summer’ Win Awards at 61st Chicago International Film Festival
Sirât by Oliver Laxe Spain’s Oscar submission, Sirât, directed by Oliver Laxe, has won the Gold Hugo for Best Film at the 61st Chicago International Film Festival.
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‘Lesbian Space Princess’, ‘Coroner to the Stars’, ‘God As My Witness’ Among Winners of 23rd Tallgrass Film Festival
Lesbian Space Princess The 23rd Annual Tallgrass Film Festival wrapped with the closing night film Lesbian Space Princess co-directed by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese walking away with Audience Favorite Narrative Feature.
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Sundance Film Festival Bids Goodbye to Park City with Legacy Program and Tribute to Robert Redford
Top L–R: Mysterious Skin, American Dream | Second Row L-R: Little Miss Sunshine, Downhill Racer, Half Nelson | Bottom Row L-R: Humpday, House Party, Saw As it prepares to bid goodbye to Park City, Utah, the 2026 Sundance Film Festival has unveiled a Park City Legacy Program celebrating the Festival’s history in Utah through archival and restoration screenings of iconic films from previous editions, artists talks with notable Festival alumni, and a special event for the community.