
The Deep in the Heart Film Festival will host a special 30th Anniversary screening of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused on Saturday, July 22.

The Deep in the Heart Film Festival will host a special 30th Anniversary screening of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused on Saturday, July 22.

Challengers, directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist is the Opening Film, Out of Competition, of the 80th Venice International Film Festival taking place August 30 to September 9, 2023.

Ladj Ly, the acclaimed French filmmaker behind Les Misérables, will world premiere his latest film, Les Indésirables, at the 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival taking place September 7–17, 2023.

Actor Riz Ahmed will be the recipient of the Excellence Award Davide Campari at the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival taking place from August 2nd to 12th.

The California Film Institute announced the 2023 Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) will take place Thursday, October 5 – Sunday, October 15, 2023.

20,000 Species of Bees directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren won the Outstanding First Feature award at the 47th Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival. In the film, an eight-year-old child struggles with the fact that people keep addressing her in confusing ways. Frameline presents the annual juried Outstanding First Feature Award to a notable narrative feature from an emerging voice in LGBTQ+ cinema.

Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins, a soccer comedy directed and co-written by the New Zealand filmmaker, will make its World Premiere at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival taking place September 7–17, 2023.

The world premiere of Silent Roar, the debut feature from Scottish writer and director, Johnny Barrington will open the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) taking place from August 18 – 23, 2023. The Festival will close with the UK premiere of Fremont, directed by BAFTA-nominated director Babak Jalali (whose debut Frontier Blues played EIFF in 2010).

Locarno Film Festival will honor film editor and two-time Oscar winner Pietro Scalia with the Vision Award Ticinomoda, the prize “dedicated to creatives whose work has extended the horizons of the filmic image”.

The 2023 Palm Springs International ShortFest announced the Festival juried and audience award winners.

The European premiere of Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari’s debut film Shayda, which won the Audience Award at Sundance 2023, will close the curtains on the final night of the 2023 Locarno Film Festival.