The 22nd Tallgrass Film Festival will be held in downtown Wichita, Kansas, October 24-27, 2024 . The festival will host more than 129 films at the Orpheum Theatre, the Advanced Learning Library (all downtown on 1st Street), and a new venue with three screens inside Century II, including the Mary J. Teall Theater.
The late Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun will be honored at the 29th Busan International Film Festival with a special program titled ‘In Memory of Lee Sun-kyun’, where six of the actor’s most beloved films will be screened. The festival will also honor the late actor with this year’s Korean Cinema Award.
Paying For It, the live-action adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel, “a comic-strip memoir about being a john”, co-written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee (Octavio is Dead! Year of the Carnivore) will have its world premiere in the Platform program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language walked away with the top prize, the flagship Bright Horizons Award and $140,000AUD prize at the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). In the offbeat film set in a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways.
The World Premiere of Music by John Williams, the documentary film on the prolific life and career of legendary composer John Williams, will open the 38th edition of AFI FEST.
Hola México Film Festival returns for its 16th annual edition on September 20 – 27, 2024, during Hispanic Heritage Month with a diverse lineup of exciting films, including comedy, horror, social-political interest, LGBTQ themes, and more.
Showcasing digitally remastered, restored, and preserved works from renowned filmmakers, films in Revivals for the 62nd New York Film Festival looks at political unrest and conflict, women’s resistance against oppression, photography and other groundbreaking topics.
With Elton John and directors R.J. Cutler and David Furnish in attendance, the documentary Elton John: Never Too Late will make its European Premiere as the American Express Gala of this year’s 68th BFI London Film Festival.
Award-winning actors Jharrel Jerome and Zhao Tao have been announced as the latest honorees receiving TIFF Tribute Awards at this year’s 49th Toronto International Film Festival, taking place September 5 – 15, 2024.
Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness, Johnny Depp’s second movie as a director, has been added to the Official Selection of the 72nd San Sebastian Festival in out-of-competition.
Masterclasses and Conversations return for the 81st Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia, with actress Sigourney Weaver, director Peter Weir, actor Ethan Hawke and director Pupi Avati among the directors and performers holding Masterclasses.
The Lithuanian drama Toxic (Akiplėša) by Saulė Bliuvaitė is the winner of the Grand Prize, Golden Leopard, Pardo d’Oro of the International Competition (Concorso Internazionale) at the 77th Locarno Film Festival. The coming-of-age film follows two 13-year-olds who form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.