My Father’s Shadow leads the nominations for the 2025 British Independent Film Awards with 12, including Best British Independent Film, along with Best Director and Best Debut Director for Akinola Davies Jr.
ISH (2025)
ISH (2025)
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‘My Father’s Shadow’ Leads Nominations for British Independent Film Awards
My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr. (Mubi)
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Wake Up Dead Man to Open 48th Denver Film Festival Lineup
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. (Netflix) Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will open the 48th annual Denver Film Festival, taking place October 31 – November 9, 2025, with the lineup showcasing 136 feature-length films, documentaries and shorts.
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Kevin Shaw’s One Golden Summer Headlines Opening Night of Chicago Film Festival
One Golden Summer (Chicago Tribune TCA) The 61st Chicago International Film Festival will open with World Premiere of Kevin Shaw’s documentary One Golden Summer, the true story behind Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League team’s heartbreaking fall from grace and the subsequent road to redemption, as told by the players themselves.
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Father Mother Sister Brother and The Voice of Hind Rajab Win Top Prizes at Venice Festival
Father Mother Sister Brother (Mubi) Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch has won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. The anthology film starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, consists of three stories on relationships between adult children, their parents and each other.