The 56th Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm) announced the award winners, with Rohan Kanawade’s semi-autobiographical feature debut Cactus Pears winning Best Narrative Feature, and The Gas Station Attendant directed by Karla Murthy, winning Best Documentary Feature.
The 2025 Prague Independent Film Festival came to a close over the weekend, with Yev K’banchik’s I Never Said Goodbye taking home the Best Feature Film prize.
The Micheaux Film Festival returns for its seventh edition, October 23–26, 2025, with Opening Night featuring the Los Angeles Premiere of the feature documentary It’s Dorothy and the World Premiere of the episodic selection “Remember.”
Depeche Mode: M is a concert documentary directed by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frías de la Parra, featuring English electronic music icons Depeche Mode (Dave Gahan and Martin Gore).
Twin Cities Film Fest (TCFF) celebrating its “Sweet 16” anniversary, unveiled its film slate of more than 150 movies set to both screen and stream October 16 – 25, 2025.
Tonatiuh will be honored at the upcoming Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF48) with a Spotlight Program and MVFF Award, for “his transformative artistry in Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, bringing emotional depth and fearless authenticity to a role that resonates on both personal and cultural levels.”
River of Grass is artist and filmmaker Sasha Wortzel’s debut documentary on the Florida’s Everglades.
Singapore has officially selected Stranger Eyes, written and directed by Yeo Siew Hua, as its submission to compete in the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards.
Directed and co-written by Yannis Veslemes, She Loved Blossoms More is a strange trip into three brothers’ grief and surreal science-fiction nightmare as they build a time machine to bring back their long-dead mother.
The documentary The Librarians unravels the truth behind a tale as old as time, book banning. Directed by Oscar-nominated and Peabody award-winning filmmaker and producer, Kim A. Snyder, it takes a firm stance against censorship and unites librarians and educators to protect the first amendment.
The 34th Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF) presented by Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at The Square, Indianapolis, Indiana, from October 9-19, 2025, revealed the lineup of more than 100 independent films.