
AFI FEST 2023 taking place in Los Angeles from October 25 to October 29 unveiled the lineup of 141 features and shorts from 49 countries.

Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos won the Golden Lion for Best Film at Venice Film Festival. In the film starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael, a young Victorian woman, Bella, is brought back to life by brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest will open the Perlak lineup of San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition. This free adaptation of the homonymous novel by Martin Amis, portraying the everyday life of a German family who live beside Auschwitz, earned the British director the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes.