The 2023 Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) will open on Thursday, October 5, with the East Coast Premiere of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Nyad. The film, which is set to be released by Netflix later this year, marks the narrative feature directorial debut for the Academy Award®, BAFTA® and Emmy Award®-winning filmmaking duo Vasarhelyi and Chin.
Critical Zone (Mantagheye bohrani) by Ali Ahmadzadeh, a film secretly shot on the streets of Teheran, without permission from the Iranian authorities is the winner of the Pardo d’oro award at Locarno76 film festival. In the film Amir, guided by the voice of his GPS, navigates the underworld districts of Tehran to comfort the troubled souls of the night.
A24 unveiled the official trailer for All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, described as “an ode to the generations of people and places that shaped us” directed by filmmaker Raven Jackson making his directorial debut.
Toronto International Film Festival announced this year’s Short Cuts lineup of 42 live action narrative, documentary, and animated shorts – boasting more than half directed or co-directed by female and female-identifying filmmakers. Stars in this year’s slate of new shorts include Riz Ahmed (DAMMI) and Kaniehtiio Horn (Redlights).
Films from Jonathan Glazer, Andrew Haigh, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Todd Haynes, Agnieszka Holland, Hong Sangsoo, Raven Jackson, Radu Jude, Yorgos Lanthimos, Michael Mann, Martín Rejtman, Alice Rohrwacher, Justine Triet, Wang Bing, Wim Wenders, and Zhang Lu are among 32 feature films that comprise the Main Slate of the 61st New York Film Festival (NYFF), taking place September 29–October 15 at Lincoln Center.
Sly, the Netflix documentary on actor, writer, director, and producer Sylvester Stallone will World Premiere as the Closing Night Gala for the 48th Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 16.
The International Premiere of Saltburn, directed, produced and written by Academy Award® Winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) will open the 67th BFI London Film Festival.
Filmmaker Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) will receive the prestigious Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.
Kelly Bastard stars in the supernatural horror film Don’t Look Away, as Frankie, a young woman being stalked by a dark figure as her loved ones are ruthlessly murdered one by one. The problem? No one believes what she’s seeing.
Oscilloscope Labs debuted the official trailer for Love Life, a Japanese melodrama that follows a married woman living with her husband, who decides to care of her son’s long-lost father when he reappears, deaf, ill and homeless.
Paramount+ revealed the official trailer for Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback, the new documentary on the captivating story of one moment in television history that revived Elvis’ career and shifted the pop-culture landscape.
