Academy Award Winning Actor Forest Whitaker will be the honorary guest at the opening ceremony of the 75th Cannes Film Festival. He will also receive the honorary Palme d’or, which pays tribute to a sparkling artistic journey, a rare personality as well as a discreet but strong humanitarian commitment to key topical issues.
Livia De Paolis, Joely Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave star in The Lost Girl, the fantasy drama film based on the novel by Laurie Fox. Also starring in the movie are Julian Ovenden, Parker Sawyers, Emily Carey, Louis Partridge, Ella-Rae Smith, and Iain Glen.
BAM announced the lineup for this year’s BAMcinemaFest 2022 taking place in person at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn, New York, June 23—30, 2022.
Bentonville Film Festival, produced by the BFFoundation and chaired by Academy Award-winning Actor Geena Davis, will take place in-person June 22-26 and virtually June 22-July 3. The Festival unveiled their Competition Jury composed of award-winning producers, directors, actors and authors, including actor Yolonda Ross, film and television producer Bird Runningwater, actor Shohreh Aghdashloo, writer and filmmaker Justine Bateman, among others.
Neon debuted the official trailer for A Chiara, the Italian coming-of-age drama starring Swamy Rotolo, Claudio Rotolo, Grecia Rotolo, and Carmela Fumo that world premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The film went on to screen at multiple prestigious film festivals including its North American premiere at the 2021 New York Film Festival and the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The 8th edition of Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) will take place in-person from May 25-29, 2022, at venues across Mammoth Lakes.
Ashley Benson, Shiloh Fernandez, Logan Miller, Frank Whaley, Jay Pharoah star in the tense and gripping neo-noir thriller Private Property, a remake of the 1960 noir film.
Director (The Card Counter, First Reformed, Cat People, American Gigolo) and screenwriter (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Obsession, The Yakuza) Paul Schrader will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31 – September 10, 2022).
The Cleveland International Film Festival announced that the 47th edition (CIFF47) will take place from Wednesday, March 22 through Saturday, April 1, 2023 at Playhouse Square.
Sundance Institute announced the 2023 Sundance Film Festival will take place as a hybrid festival in Park City, Salt Lake City, Utah, and beyond, from January 19 through January 29, 2023.
The 2022 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announced the award winners for its 20th annual edition with Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Once Upon a Time in Calcutta winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film, and Anmol Sidhu’s Jaggi receiving the inaugural Uma da Cunha Award for Best Feature Film Debut, as well as the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature.
The official trailer debuted for Emergency, the indie thriller film starring RJ Cyler, Donald Elise Watkins, Sebastian Chacon, Sabrina Carpenter, Maddie Nichols, Madison Thompson, Diego Abraham that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.