The 27th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival taking place April 3-6, 2025, in downtown Durham, North Carolina has unveiled a lineup of forty-nine films from 30 countries
Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story (2024)
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‘Prime Minister’ and ‘SALLY’Headline 27th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Lineup
Jacinda Ardern in Prime Minister by Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe (Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Radio New Zealand)
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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ and ‘A Missing Part’ Bookend 40th Santa Barbara Film Festival Lineup
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life directed by Laura Piani (courtesy SBIFF) The 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), set to take place February 4 to 15, 2025, announced the lineup of films from 60 countries.
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Kneecap Tops Irish Film & Television Academy Awards Nominations with 17
Kneecap (Helen Sloan. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics) Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap leads the nominations for the 2025 Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards with 17, including Best Film. Also nominated for Best Film are Kathleen Is Here, King Frankie, Small Things Like These, Spilt Milk, and The Apprentice.
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‘I’m Still Here’, Zoe Saldaña, ‘No Other Land’ Win Jury Awards at 36th Palm Springs Film Festival
I’m Still Here directed by Walter Salles (courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics) The Brazilian Oscar entry I’m Still Here won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best International Feature Film at the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF). Directed by Walter Salles, the film stars Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro as Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children coping with the forced disappearance of her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva, during the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1970s.
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‘Better Man’ and ‘The Penguin Lessons’ Bookend 36th Palm Springs International Film Festival Lineup
The Penguin Lessons directed by Peter Cattaneo Better Man directed by Michael Gracey will open the 36th Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) taking place from January 2-13, 2025. The film is based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams.
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Sinead O’Shea’s ‘Blue Road–The Edna O’Brien Story’ Launches 15th DOC NYC Lineup
Blue Road–The Edna O’Brien Story directed by Sinead O’Shea (TIFF) Celebrating its 15th edition, the 2024 DOC NYC will screen over 110 feature-length documentaries from November 13-21, 2024 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika in New York City, continuing online until December 1, 2024.
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Documentaries by Eddie Huang, Raoul Peck Among Docs Program at Toronto Film Festival
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Raoul Peck (Nick Dale) Former Vice host Eddie Huang, novelist Edna O’Brien, US politician Adam Kinzinger, disability rights activist Patrice Jetter, aerial cameraman Joe Jennings, and the haenyeo fisherwomen of South Korea are among the subjects of 21 documentary titles in the 2024 Docs program, presented by A&E IndieFilms, at the 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, taking place September 5–15, 2024.