Venice Classics is the section that since 2012 has presented world premiere screenings at the Venice Film Festival of a selection of the best restorations of film classics carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world.
The 40th Durban International Film Festival announced its winner at its awards ceremony with Les Misérables directed by Ladj Ly, winning Best Feature Film, and Back of the Moon directed by Angus Gibson winning for Best South African Feature Film.
Films directed by Taika Waititi, Marielle Heller, James Mangold, Rian Johnson, Marjane Satrapi, John Crowley, Alejandro Amenábar, Thom Zimny & Bruce Springsteen, Atom Egoyan, Chinonye Chukwu, Kasi Lemmons, Noah Baumbach, Craig Brewer, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Destin Daniel Cretton, Michael Winterbottom, Armando Iannucci, Steven Soderbergh, Todd Phillips, Lorene Scafaria, Fernando Meirelles, and Roger Michell are among the first round of titles selected for the Gala and Special Presentations programs at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival. This first batch of films from the 2019 Official Selection features 18 Galas and 38 Special Presentations.
Long Gone By, starring Erica Muñoz who is also the associate producer, and directed by Andrew Morgan will premiere at HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival on Saturday August 17, 2019 at 2pm at AMC Times Square.
Radioactive, the Marie and Pierre Curie biopic directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), will make its World Premiere as the Closing Night Gala Presentation of the 44th Toronto International Film Festival on September 14.
Gitanjali Rao’s animated feature film, Bombay Rose will have its World Premiere as the opening film of Critics Week at the Venice International Film Festival on August 29th, 2019.
The Tribeca Film Festival, today announced that its 19th edition will take place April 15-26, 2020 in New York City.
Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar’s passionate and deeply personal gem that won Antonio Banderas the Best Actor award in Cannes will open this year’s Summer International Film Festival (SummerIFF) on August 13.
The world premiere of The Burnt Orange Heresy directed by Giuseppe Capotondi (La doppia ora) is the closing film, Out of Competition, of the 76th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2019). The Burnt Orange Heresy starring Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger and Donald Sutherland will be screened on Saturday, September 7th in the Sala Grande of thePalazzo del Cinema at the Lido di Venezia; the screening will be held after the awards ceremony.
Cronofobia, the psychological drama about suspended identity from Swiss director Francesco Rizzi, and staring Vinicio Marchioni, Giorgia Salari, Carla Cassola, along with Jun Ichikawa, will have its North American premiere at the 23rd Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival. The film will screen Saturday August 10, in The Vets Cinematheque, Rhode Island Film Festival – Flickers 2019 in its original language, Italian, with English subtitles.
On Tuesday, August 6, 2019, “an unforgettably memorable selection of short films from around the world and New England” will kick off the 23rd Annual Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF).
The official program of the 72nd edition of the Locarno Film Festival was announced this week, along with tributes – the Leopard Club Award for Hilary Swank, the Vision Award Ticinomoda for Claire Atherton, the Premio Utopia for Enrico Ghezzi and the Premio Cinema Ticino for Fulvio Bernasconi.