Elia Suleiman’s new comedy film, It Must Be Heaven, which won FIPRESCI prize of the international film critics for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival has been selected by Palestine as the country’s submission in the Best International Feature category at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Nora Fingscheidt’s debut film System Crasher (Systemsprenger) has been selected to represent Germany at the 2020 Academy Awards in the Best International Feature category.
Truth and Justice (Tõde ja õigus), adapted and directed by Tanel Toom, has been selected by the Estonian Film Institute (EFI) as Estonia’s candidate for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Additionally, for the first time, an Estonian documentary Ksenia Okhapkina’s Immortal is also eligible for an Oscar, after having won the Grand Prix for the Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Dark Star Pictures acquired Johannes Nyholm’s KOKO-DI KOKO-DA which has excited audiences and critics at festivals including: Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival and most recently Fantasia Film Festival 2019 (WINNER! AQCC-Camera Lucida Prize) and will soon screen at Fantastic Fest 2019 and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2019. The company is planning a November theatrical release followed by VOD and DVD release
The 24th Busan International Film Festival has selected Jung Il-Sung for the Korean Cinema Retrospective. Jung, a renowned cinematographer, has worked on the history of Korean films and left a significant mark on unique filmmaking as a master of cinematography.
Three of the most important European directors on the contemporary panorama, the debut film by a well-known Portuguese actor, the second movie by a Brazilian filmmaker produced by Darren Aronofsky and the latest work from one of today’s most interesting Tibetan filmmakers join the list of films in competition for the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival’s 67th edition.
Penélope Cruz will receive the Donostia Award, along with the screening of her latest film, Wasp Network, directed by Olivier Assayas, at the San Sebastian Festival 2019.
This year’s Spotlight on Documentary section of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27–October 13) features incisive portraits of iconic figures, intimate reports from inside the American prison system, New York stories both personal and political, and much more.
Nail-biting thriller “Scooter”, starring Mitch Lemos (“Burn Notice”) and Yoshi Zimmerman , released the official trailer in advance of the theatrical release in the fall via Artist Rights Distribution.
Ten new films including the latest works by Casey Affleck, Robert Eggers, Hirokazu Koreeda, Pablo Larraín, Céline Sciamma, Makoto Shinkai and Steven Soderbergh, will be featured in the Perlak section at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Furthermore, The Climb, a comedy directed by Michael Angelo Covino, will close the section out of competition.
The first edition of the Accra Animation Film Festival (AAFFia) recently wrapped after shining a spotlight on African animation as well as hosting the third leg of the Pan-African Animation du Monde preliminary rounds. Three creators and animators will progress to the Continental Finals taking place at DISCOP Johannesburg later this year.
Five films from the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, have been selected as candidates at The Haugesund International Film Festival for the Nordic Council Film Prize 2019.