
Director Liliana Cavani and actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai will each receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 80th Venice Film Festival (International Film Festival of the Biennale di Venezia) taking place August 30 to September 9, 2023.

Director Liliana Cavani and actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai will each receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 80th Venice Film Festival (International Film Festival of the Biennale di Venezia) taking place August 30 to September 9, 2023.

Burning Days directed by Emin Alper won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature at the 26th annual Sonoma International Film Festival which ran March 22-26, 2023. The Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature went to The Grab by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.

The 25th anniversary edition of Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) taking place in-person across Sarasota through April 2, 2023 opened on Saturday, March 25 with Dawn Porter’s Cirque Du Soleil: Without A Net. The film offers a behind-the-scenes look into “O”, Cirque’s flagship production, on its journey back after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Grasshopper Film debuted the official trailer for De Humani Corporis Fabrica, a French documentary exploring the human body including intimate close-up footage from inside human bodies taken during surgeries and autopsies performed in hospitals around Paris. The film is named after De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, a 16th-century book series on human anatomy.

Alex Trewhitt stars in the award-winning indie drama film Cherry, as 25 year-old rollerskater Cherry who discovers that she is ten weeks pregnant Also starring in the film are Dan Schultz, Joe Sachem, Darius Levanté, Sandy Duarte, Alice Bang, Hannah Alline, Angela Nicholas, Melinda DeKay, and Charlie S. Jensen.

Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker François Ozon, the French film Everything Went Fine (Tout s’est bien passé) is a powerful family drama, where a man with a devastating final wish contacts his daughter to help him and forces her to reconcile her painful past with him. The film is based on the based on the novel Everything Went Well by Emmanuèle Bernheim, and stars Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, Géraldine Pailhas, Charlotte Rampling along with Éric Caravaca.

Motherland, a documentary on violence and abuse in the Belarusian military, has won the DOX:AWARD at the 2023 CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.

IFC Films revealed the official trailer for R.M.N., the drama film teeming with ethnic and economic tensions, set in a multiethnic village in Transylvania, Romania.

Grasshopper Film will release Dry Ground Burning (Mato Seco em Chamas) from the directorial duo of Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós.

Blue Fox Entertainment revealed the official trailer for The End Of Sex, the romantic comedy starring Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek), Jonas Chernick (James vs. His Future Self), as a young married couple who are feeling pressured by the demands of parenthood, decide to have as much sex as they want while their kids are away for the weekend.

Stranded on a crumbling rig in Baja, a family faces off against a vengeful shark in The Black Demon, the action thriller starring Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola and Julio Cesar Cedillo.

Transgender actress Trace Lysette stars in Monica as a woman who returns home to the Midwest to care for her dying mother whom she hasn’t seen in years.