The 23nd annual Boston Underground Film Festival returns to Harvard Square’s arthouse hub The Brattle Theatre from March 22nd through the 26th, featuring a lineup stacked with “fearsome folk horror, mendacious miscreants, harrowing horrors and hero/es/ines, godless god-complexes, eco-thrillers and chillers, sensational sci-fi, and all manner of midnight madness.”
South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the second wave of the 2023 Film & TV Festival Lineup, including all Visions, Global, 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites plus numerous additions to Headliners, TV Premieres, Narrative and Documentary Spotlight, and other sections. The Festival also announced that Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s Swarm and Lee Sung Jin’s Beef will be the Opening and Closing Night TV premieres.
All Quiet on the Western Front leads the nominations for the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards, with 14 nominations including Best Film. The film ties with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2001) as the non-English language film with the most nominations in BAFTA’s history.
BAFTA announced the full set of longlists for 24 categories including Best Film, Cinematography, Casting, Documentary, Film Not in the English Language, the four performance categories for the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards.
The 2022 Tribeca Festival, set to run from June 8-19, announced its lineup of feature and short narrative, documentary, and animated films. The festival will showcase 111 feature films and 16 online premieres from 151 filmmakers across 40 countries.
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 33rd year, will present a full edition of 10 groundbreaking new films, available both in-person and online nationwide in the U.S., from May 20 to 26, 2022. For the first time in two years, the New York festival will be back with a full program of in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center, with in-depth discussions with filmmakers, film participants, activists and Human Rights Watch researchers. The festival will continue to offer the opportunity to watch all 10 new films online across the U.S. with a full digital edition of the film festival.
The 2021 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) unveiled the selected films in premiere-only sections Luminous and Frontlight, along with its first competition selections in the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary. IDFA also announced the selected titles in interdisciplinary program IDFA on Stage, chief among them the world premiere of the newly restored Dziga Vertov film The History of the Civil War. The 34th edition of IDFA takes place from November 17 to 28 in Amsterdam.