Academy award–winning actor, women’s rights activist, and entrepreneur Patricia Arquette will receive the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at the 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Arquette is the final honoree to be announced ahead of the 2023 TIFF Tribute Awards, taking place on Sunday, September 10 at Fairmont Royal York Hotel.
“The Whirlpool,” a mystical thriller directed by Denis Kryuchkov, took the Grand Prix prize at the 8th Vienna Independent Film Festival. Austrian actor Wolfgang Cerny received the Best Actor prize for starring in the film on the life of Lyuba, who, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, seeks refuge in the Russian outback, where mysterious shamanic rituals challenge her perception of reality.
Hola México Film Festival, the largest Mexican film festival outside of Mexico, returns for its 15th annual edition on September 29 – October 7, 2023 during Hispanic Heritage Month.
Award-winning actor Vicky Krieps will receive the TIFF Tribute Performer Award at the fifth annual Awards gala at the Toronto International Film Festival. Krieps is being recognized for her outstanding body of work and returns to the Festival this year for the World Premiere of Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt.
The World Premiere of the apocalyptic thriller Leave the World Behind, starring Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts, Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon, will open the 37th edition of AFI Fest.
Ghanaian filmmaker Arthur Musah’s new documentary Brief Tender Light, where he follows four African undergraduates through his alma mater MIT, will make its World Premiere at Newburyport Documentary Film Festival on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 3:15 p.m. at Firehouse Center for the Arts.
Ahead of the world premiere at Toronto Film Festival, Fandango debuted the first look official trailer for Walls, the directorial debut of Award-winning Italian actress Kasia Smutniak.
The European Film Academy revealed the five films nominated for LUX – The European Audience Film Award, presented by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy in partnership with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay latest film Origin will have a Gala screening at Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 11th with DuVernay in attendance.
Seven stories. One city. Circle Collective debuted the official trailer for What Doesn’t Float, described as “an anthology of New Yorkers at their wit’s end.” Across six vignettes, dark humor is used to emote the tragic state of being misunderstood.
Icarus Films will release a new 2K restoration of The First Year (El primer año), the 1972 debut feature by master documentarian Patricio Guzmán, never seen on American screens before.
Saban Films debuted the official trailer for Good Boy, the Norwegian horror thriller film starring Gard Løkke, Katrine Lovise Øpstad Fredriksen, Amalie Willoch Njaastad, and Nicolai Narvesen Lied.