The East Coast Premiere of Lynn Dow’s Bull Street starring Loretta Devine and Amy Madigan opens the 26th Sarasota Film Festival taking place across Sarasota April 5 through April 14, 2024. The festival will close with a special presentation of Steve Buscemi’s The Listener starring Tessa Thompson.
Bobi Wine: The People’s President, the documentary directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp on pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, as he runs in Uganda’s 2021 presidential election, won the top award – Best Feature Documentary at the 39th IDA Documentary Awards.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 96th Academy Awards®.
The U.S. Premiere of Wicked Little Letters directed by Thea Sharock will open the 35th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF).
The 39th IDA Documentary Awards announced this year’s nominees with Against the Tide, ANHELL69, Apolonia, Apolonia, Bobi Wine: The People’s President, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, In the Rearview, Milisuthando, Q, The Mother of All Lies and While We Watched nominated for Best Feature Documentary.
31st Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) unveiled the full lineup of films with Bradley Cooper’s Maestro as closing night film along with “A Conversation with…” Series with Paul Simon. Filmmaker Celine Song will also attend the festival for a Special Screening of her latest narrative feature Past Lives, and will receive the festival’s Breakthrough Artist Award.
Documentary films on mountain climber Lhakpa Sherpa, Japan’s reality TV star Nasubi, Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, Indigenous activist Layla Staats, historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and Canadian icon Mr. Dressup are among the 2023 selection for the Toronto International Film Festival’s TIFF Docs program featuring 22 titles from 12 countries around the world.