Filmfest Dresden announced the complete program for the 35th edition taking place April 18 to 23, 2023. A total of 371 short films from 66 countries are being presented in the competitions and special programs over 188 screenings. In addition to the competition sections, during the festival week, numerous events in the special program with an array of country-based and thematic highlights are being held under the motto of Antiracism: Exit Happyland.
HBO revealed the official trailer for the second season of the Emmy-winning six-part docuseries 100 Foot Wave, directed and executive produced by award-winning filmmaker Chris Smith (HBO’s “Branson”) and debuts Sunday, April 16 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET/PT) with new episodes premiering subsequent Sunday.
Filmed over two years across the UK, Europe and the US, the documentary Ithaka follows 76 year-old retired builder, John Shipton’s tireless campaign to save his son, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
IFC Films has revealed the first teaser trailer for Biosphere, sci-fi comedy film set “in the not-too-distant future” starring Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown as the last two men on earth who must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
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.