Filmmaker and artist Harmony Korine will be honored with the Pardo d’onore Manor, the award for outstanding achievement in cinema, at the upcoming 76th Locarno Film Festival. The festival will feature screenings of two titles picked from his filmography by the director himself: Gummo (1997) and Spring Breakers (2012). Korine will also meet with the Festival public in a panel conversation at Forum @Spazio Cinema.
Directed by Patricia E. Gillespie, the gripping documentary The Fire That Took Her explores the murder trial for Judy Malinowski.
Pietro Marcello follows his dramatic breakthrough, Martin Eden, with Scarlet (L’envol), a ‘period fable’ based on the 1923 novel by Russian writer Alexander Grin.
Here is the official trailer for feature documentary Chasing Chasing Amy, which will have its world premiere at Tribeca Festival 2023.
The 11th Annual Israel Film Center Festival returns to Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan (MMJCCM) in New York City showcasing powerful films in Israel’s film industry from June 1 to 8 and with virtual screenings through June 12.
DC/DOX, the documentary film festival in Washington, DC, will kick off its first annual edition with Joan Baez I Am A Noise, directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle, and close with Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s The Space Race. The inaugural DC/DOX festival will be held June 15-18, 2023 in Washington, DC.
The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival return for its 20th anniversary edition in Eugene, Oregon from May 17th to 21st, 2023. The five-day event offers film screenings, feature expert speakers and the TAC Conference on Cultural Heritage Media.
The 18th Annual South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) in Los Angeles, California came to a close with the world premiere of the documentary from Ukraine, “KING LEAR: How We Looked for Love During the War,” by Dmytro Hreshko. Taking a step back from the frontlines, the film focuses on internally displaced people in a small town who are transformed into Shakespeare’s characters which in turn gives a new meaning and purpose to their shattered lives.
Utopia dropped the official trailer for Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), a documentary on Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell of album art design studio, Hipgnosis, the creative geniuses behind album art for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney.
Directed by Israeli filmmaker Idan Haguel, Concerned Citizen is described as a dark comedy about gentrification in a Tel Aviv neighborhood. Starring in the film are Shlomi Bertonov and Ariel Wolf.
Film Movement will release The Night of the 12th (La Nuit du 12), the César Award winning French thriller based on the book 18.3 – Une année à la PJ by Pauline Guéna, that centers on a police investigation in the violent death by burning of Clara, a young woman.
The 33rd annual Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, set to take place both in-person and virtually from May 25th to June 4th, 2023, will showcase 107 films from 30 countries, including 33 feature films, and 7 world premieres.