Film Festivals

Close Your Eyes Director Víctor Erice to Receive Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival

Víctor Erice, Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos)

50 years after he won the Golden Shell for his first solo feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), filmmaker Víctor Erice will receive a Donostia Award at the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The Festival pays tribute to a filmmaker who, with only four feature films to his name, has garnered the Silver Shell for Best Director, Golden Shell for Best Film and the Jury and International Film Critics Prizes at the Festival de Cannes, among many other distinctions.

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James Marsh’s ‘Dance First’ Starring Gabriel Byrne to Close San Sebastian Festival

Dance First

Oscar winning director James Marsh’s Dance First, the biopic film on Irish Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Becket, will close the 71st San Sebastian Festival. The film closing out the Official Selection in out of competition stars Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, and Fionn O’Shea.

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Kibwe Tavares & Daniel Kaluuya’s ‘The Kitchen’ to World Premiere as Closing Night Film of London Film Festival

The Kitchen. (L to R) Kane Robinson as Izi, Jedaiah Bannerman as Benji in The Kitchen. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023

Kibwe Tavares & Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen will world premiere as the Closing Night Gala film of the 67th BFI London Film Festival. Starring in the film are Kane Robinson, Jedaiah Bannerman, Hope Ikpoku Jr, Teija Kabs, Demmy Ladipo, Cristale and BackRoad Gee.

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Calgary International Film Festival 2023 Unveils Films Competing for Canadian Narrative and Documentary Feature Awards

Red Rooms

The Calgary International Film Festival 2023 unveiled the films in competition for Canadian Narrative Feature Award and DGC Canadian Documentary Feature Award.

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Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero Documentary to World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival

Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero

Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, a documentary on the Grammy award-winning rapper, singer and songwriter’s shot during the course of his first ever tour will world premiere at TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival.

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Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest and Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables Bookend Perlak Lineup of San Sebastian Festival

The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest will open the Perlak lineup of San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition. This free adaptation of the homonymous novel by Martin Amis, portraying the everyday life of a German family who live beside Auschwitz, earned the British director the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes.

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Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron to Open San Sebastian Festival

The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka)

Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka) will open the 71st edition of San Sebastian Festival – out of competition. Following the premiere at Toronto Film Festival, San Sebastian will host the European premiere of the latest film from the director of Spirited Away.

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New York Film Festival Unveils Spotlight Films – Foe, Hit Man, The Taste of Things, The Sweet East

Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal in Foe directed by Garth Davis

New York Film Festival unveiled the films in the Spotlight section for the upcoming 61st edition of the festival taking place September 29 – October 15, 2023. World premieres in the Spotlight section are Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s genre-defying series The Curse starring Emma Stone; and Garth Davis’s superbly rendered science-fiction drama Foe, starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal.

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Maureen Gosling’s ‘The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane’ to World Premiere at Mill Valley Film Festival

Photo: Anti-Vietnam War march in San Francisco 1964 ©Erik Weber

Maureen Gosling’s The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane, a documentary tribute celebrating the life of a powerhouse blues/jazz/folk singer, activist, feminist, record producer, and committed troublemaker, Barbara Dane will World Premiere at the 2023 Mill Valley Film Festival.

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Playland, Lost Soulz and Three Birthdays Among First Films Set for 21st Tallgrass Film Festival

Three Birthdays

Tallgrass Film Festival announced the first wave of film and events for its 21st annual Film Festival to be held October 5-8, in downtown Wichita, Kansas. The Festival will host more than 184 films for this 21st edition.

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Toronto Film Festival Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme

Toronto International Film Festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense with a special event screening on Monday, September 11, at Cineplex’s Scotiabank IMAX Theatre in Toronto.

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Bradley Cooper’s Maestro Set as Spotlight Gala of New York Film Festival

Maestro (Netflix)

Bradley Cooper’s Maestro will make its North American premiere as the Spotlight Gala of the 61st New York Film Festival at David Geffen Hall on October 2.

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