DC/DOX, the documentary film festival in Washington, DC, will kick off its first annual edition with Joan Baez I Am A Noise, directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle, and close with Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s The Space Race. The inaugural DC/DOX festival will be held June 15-18, 2023 in Washington, DC.
The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival return for its 20th anniversary edition in Eugene, Oregon from May 17th to 21st, 2023. The five-day event offers film screenings, feature expert speakers and the TAC Conference on Cultural Heritage Media.
The 18th Annual South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) in Los Angeles, California came to a close with the world premiere of the documentary from Ukraine, “KING LEAR: How We Looked for Love During the War,” by Dmytro Hreshko. Taking a step back from the frontlines, the film focuses on internally displaced people in a small town who are transformed into Shakespeare’s characters which in turn gives a new meaning and purpose to their shattered lives.
Utopia dropped the official trailer for Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), a documentary on Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell of album art design studio, Hipgnosis, the creative geniuses behind album art for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney.
Directed by Israeli filmmaker Idan Haguel, Concerned Citizen is described as a dark comedy about gentrification in a Tel Aviv neighborhood. Starring in the film are Shlomi Bertonov and Ariel Wolf.
Film Movement will release The Night of the 12th (La Nuit du 12), the César Award winning French thriller based on the book 18.3 – Une année à la PJ by Pauline Guéna, that centers on a police investigation in the violent death by burning of Clara, a young woman.
The 33rd annual Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, set to take place both in-person and virtually from May 25th to June 4th, 2023, will showcase 107 films from 30 countries, including 33 feature films, and 7 world premieres.
Virginie Efira stars in the French drama film Revoir Paris (Paris Memories) as Mia, a woman who is struggling with the lingering mental health effects of having survived a terrorist attack in Paris months earlier
Directed by Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed, the documentary All Man: The International Male Story tells the remarkable journey of how an unlikely band of outsiders designed one of the most sought-after mail-order catalogs of the 70s and 80s.
The multi award-winning series POV returns for its 36th season with a slate of 16 feature documentaries with themes devoted to caregiving, transnationalism, activism, childhood aspirations, accessibility, and intergenerational relationships.
Directors Damien Chazelle, Alice Diop and Jonas Carpignano will chair the international juries respectively of Venezia 80, the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film and the Orizzonti section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival taking place August 30 – September 9, 2023.
Actor Russell Crowe will receive the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.