British-Sri Lankan filmmaker and video artist Chloe Abrahams makes her feature film directorial debut with The Taste of Mango, a documentary telling the story of her family, documenting the life and struggle of her mother, her grandmother, and herself.
Produced by Martin Scorsese and the last remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Beatles ’64 is a documentary that presents a behind-the-scenes story on The Beatles’ first visit to America and debut performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, captivating New York City and the whole United States.
Cinema Eye Honors unveiled the 16 films on the Audience Choice Prize Longlist, the Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in five Broadcast categories, and the annual Shorts List — spotlighting 11 of the year’s top documentary short films for its 18th annual edition.
Directed by Edmund Stenson and Oscar and BAFTA Award-winner Daniel Roher, the documentary Blink follows the Pelletier family on an epic journey to show their children the beauty of the world after they are diagnosed with an incurable genetic eye disease
The One That Got Away, City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination, 60 Years Later, Showdown on the Brazos won top award honors at the 6th Billy the Kid Film Festival in Texas.
https://vimooz.com/category/film-festivals/international-film-festival-rotterdam-iffr/International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the initial details of four Focus programs for IFFR 2025, from highlighting Katja Raganelli’s representations of women’s voices and Sergii Masloboishchykov’s chronicles of Ukraine’s national identity, to marking the the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference and reigniting the communal spirit of VHS practices around the world.
The Palm Springs International Film Awards will honor Adrien Brody with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, for his performance in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. The Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running January 2-13, 2025.
Michael Gracey directs Better Man, a biographical film about British pop star Robbie Williams – with a twist: Williams is depicted as a CGI monkey, voiced by the singer himself, telling the story of his life through his own perspective.
Altered Innocence debuted the US theatrical trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome (Le syndrome de l’été sans fin), Iranian filmmaker Kaveh Daneshmand’s feature directorial debut following a mother of two adoptees who is tipped off about the possible affair her husband may be having with one of their children.
World-premiering earlier this year at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Magnus von Horn’s gothic thriller The Girl With the Needle follows a wet nurse working for an underground adoption agency in post-WWI Copenhagen. It was recently selected as the official Danish entry for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards,
BAFTA-winning Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch) returns with her sophomore feature, a surreal dramedy titled On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The film follows a young Zambian woman who stumbles upon her uncle’s body, uncovering family secrets and lies as funeral preparations unfold.
Director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes has been named the President of the International Jury of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.