The 40th edition of Boston Film Festival announced the award winners for this year’s edition of the festival. Sweetwater won six awards including Best Film, along with Best Story and Best Director for Martin Guigui; Best Actor for Everett Osborne; Best Music for Sweetwater, and Best Ensemble Cast.
Ewan McGregor will receive the TV Performance of the Year Award, for his starring role in A Gentleman in Moscow, the adaptation of Amor Towles’ novel at the 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF).
The 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival, scheduled to take place from October 26 to November 2 will celebrate a lineup of distinguished contributors to some of the most anticipated and critically acclaimed films of the year.
Known for his biographical films on notable figures throughout history with ‘Jackie,’ ‘Spencer,’ and the Oscar-nominated ‘El Conde,’ Pablo Larraín now directs ‘Maria,’ a biographical drama film on one of the most influential opera singer of all time, Maria Callas. The film stars Angelina Jolie in its leading role of Callas.
Representing Latvia at the 2025 Academy Awards, Gintz Zilbalodis’ critically acclaimed animated film ‘Flow’ follows the story of a cat forming an unlikely friendship with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog after their home got destroyed in a great flood.
Marking the second feature film from actor turned director Jesse Eisenberg, ‘A Real Pain’ is a comedy/drama film led by Eisenberg himself and Kieran Culkin (Succession, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World). The film follows the pair as they embark on a holocaust tour in Poland to honor to honor their grandmother.
Based on an original story by Josh O’Connor (La Chimera, Challengers), ‘Bonus Track’ is the feature film directorial debut of Julia Jackman. The coming-of-age romcom follows the story of a teenager with a dream of music stardom as he figures out his future and his identity after a new student enrols at his school.
Based on the 2017 memoir of Japanese journalist Shihori Ito, ‘Black Box Diaries’ is a critically acclaimed documentary produced and directed by Ito herself as she seeks for justice, investigating her own sexual assault case involving former head of the Tokyo Broadcasting System Noriyuki Yamaguchi.
Following the nation-wide protests against the murder of George Floyd, elected Mayor of Baltimore Brandon Scott promised to make the city a better place by reducing gun-violence. ‘The Body Politic’ is a documentary following Scott’s first year in office as he introduces plans that will reduce gun-violence happening in the city of Baltimore.
Following up on the success of the 2019 Spanish Thriller ‘The Platform‘ which gained over 80 million streams, Netflix unveiled the official trailer for the sequel to the film, ‘The Platform 2.’ Helmed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia who also directed the first film, ‘The Platform 2’ continues the concept of the first film, set in a vertical prison where prisoners are fed on a descending platform.
The 25th Newport Beach Film Festival will present Irish Spotlight, an evening celebration of Irish cinema and culture on October 20, featuring the North American premieres of the films Blue Fiddle and Four Mothers and the feature documentary Housewife of the Year.
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin teams up with frequent collaborators Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson on ‘Rumours’ an absurd black comedy film about world leaders meeting at the G7 Summit to talk about an existential global threat facing humanity.