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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Megalomaniac Trailer – Eline Schumacher, Wim Willaert Star in Horror Film by Karim Ouelhaj
Megalomaniac (credit Pascal Bernaerts) Dark Sky Pictures unveiled the official trailer for Megalomaniac, the horror thriller film starring Eline Schumacher, Wim Willaert, Benjamin Ramon, Pierre Nisse, and Raphaëlle Lubansu.
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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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Stop Making Sense Trailer – Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads Concert Film Returns to Theaters 40 Years Later
Stop Making Sense (A24) A24 debuted the official trailer for Stop Making Sense, the concert film featuring a live performance of Talking Heads at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983.
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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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The Persian Version Trailer – Maryam Keshavar’s Sundance Award Winning Comedy Takes on Iranian-American Experience
The Persian Version Sony Pictures Classics debuted the official trailer for The Persian Version, the Sundance Fest award-winning comedy film on the Iranian and Iranian-American experience. Starring in the film are Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet, Bijan Daneshmand, Bella Warda, Chiara Stella, Tom Byrne, and Shervin Alenabi.
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19 Films Make the Feature Film Selection for European Film Awards 2023
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry The European Film Awards has selected 19 films as the first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection 2023. The Feature Film Selection includes films that the Board of the Academy recommends to all Academy members for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2023.
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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.