San Luis Obispo International Film Festival will honor two-time Academy Award winning production designer Rick Carter with the King Vidor Award, and two-time Academy Award Best Supporting Actor nominee Judd Hirsch with the Spotlight Award, at the 29th edition taking place April 25-30, 2023.
Nardeep Khurmi’s Land of Gold unveiled the official trailer ahead of its upcoming release in theaters on May 5 before premiering May 15 on HBO Max.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, a new documentary on the famous model and actress who died in February 2007.
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Cinéastes), an independent selection running parallel to Cannes Film Festival, revealed the official selection of 20 feature and 10 short films for its 55th edition taking place May 17 to 26, 2023.
Bleecker Street unveiled the official trailer for The Starling Girl, the independent film drama starring Eliza Scanlen as a 17-year-old girl raised in a fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky who is trying to figure out her place in the world. Also starring in the film are Lewis Pullman, Wrenn Schmidt, Austin Abrams, and Jimmi Simpson.
Teona Strugar Mitevska’s The Happiest Man in the World captured the BHFF 2023 Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 19th annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) in New York City Golden Apple Awards ceremony. Jelena Kordić Kuret was awarded the Jury Award for Best Acting Performance for her role as Asja in the film.
Lionsgate debuted a new official trailer for White Bird, the drama film and “next chapter” to the 2017 film Wonder, starring Gillian Anderson along with Helen Mirren.
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) announced the complete lineup for the tenth annual Chicago Critics Film Festival, taking place May 5-11 at the city’s historic Music Box Theatre.
11 films have been selected for this year’s 2023 Cannes International Critics’ Week (Semaine de la critique), with 7 first films and 6 directed by women. To kick off this 62nd edition, Ama Gloria, first solo film by French director Marie Amachoukeli – winner of the Caméra d’Or for Party Girl that she co-directed with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. She delivers a delicate, intimate film about the deep connection between 6- year-old Cléo and Gloria, her nanny. Gloria must suddenly leave Cléo and return to Cape Verde. Marie Amachoukeli conveys with incredible grace cruel, heartbreaking farewells, awash in the summer sunlight.
The 17th edition of Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF) takes place April 28 to May 5, 2023, at the Violet Crown Cinema in West Village Uptown.
In Coven, the new documentary by Rama Rau premiering at Hot Docs film festival, three millennial women who identify as witches seek guidance and travel to explore their past lives and lost traditions.
