The Locarno Film Festival offered a sneak preview of the upcoming 73rd edition of the festival including the 2020 Festival poster, the Retrospective which will be dedicated for the first time to a woman, the Japanese filmmaker and actress Kinuyo Tanaka and a new collaboration starts with SWISS FILMS. The 73rd Locarno Film Festival will take place from August 5 to 15, 2020.
Berlin International Film Festival today confirmed more films in Berlinale Specials including the world premiere of Police, Anne Fontaine’s new film, with Omar Sy playing a dramatic role. Along with Sy, Virginie Efira and Grégory Gadebois complete a trio of policemen and -women who represent a fascinating cross-section of French society.
Film at Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical announce the fifth edition of Neighboring Scenes, the annual wide-ranging showcase of contemporary Latin American cinema featuring established auteurs as well as fresh talent from the international festival scene, February 14-18.
Singaporean American filmmaker Kirsten Tan is the winner of the 2020 SFFILM New American Fellowship, supporting her current narrative feature Higher, which is in the development and screenwriting stage.
With 59 competition entries, including 29 world premieres and eleven debut films from 34 countries and a share of female directors reaching 58%, the Berlin International Film Festival program of the 43rd Generation is now complete.
Netflix released the trailer for the ‘darkly humorous psychological drama’ Horse Girl trailer starring Alison Brie that is set to premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The film will debut on Netflix on February 7, 2020.
The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association announced the winners for the 2019 Latino Entertainment Film Awards where “Parasite” won the most awards with five, including Best Picture, Director (Bong Joon-Ho), Original Screenplay (Bong Joon-Ho and Jin Won Han), International Feature (for the country of South Korea), and Film Editing (Yang Jinmo).
And Then We Danced and Aniara were crowned the winners of the 2020 Guldbagge Awards held in Stockholm yesterday, with four awards each. Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced won the top prize of Best Film, with the Best Director award going to Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja for Aniara.
Annie Silverstein’s acclaimed indie drama Bull which debuted in Un Certain Regard section of 2019 Cannes Film Festival, earning rave review, will open in select theaters and on digital/VOD on March 20, 2020 via Samuel Goldwyn Films. Bull stars Rob Morgan (JUST MERCY, MUDBOUND, Stranger Things), Yolonda Ross (WHITNEY, The Chi) and introduces Amber Havard.
First Run Features will release Dimitri de Clercq’s award-winning debut feature You Go To My Head starring Delfine Bafort, Svetozar Cvetković, and Arend Pinoy in US theaters. The psychological thriller will open in New York City on Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2020) and in Los Angeles on February 21.
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and Parasite lead the nominations for the the 24th Annual Online Film & Television Association (OFTA) Film awards with 14 each including for Best Picture. Other Best Picture nominees include 1917, Little Women, The Farewell, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, and Marriage Story.
Directors Karim Aïnouz, Andrea Štaka and Francisco Márquez as well as the actors Ben Whishaw, Sandra Hüller and Stellan Skarsgård all present new films in the Berlinale Panorama program of the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival.