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In Really Good Driver, which debuted at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, an Asian American mom (Keiko Agena) teaches her grown-up child (Alex Song-Xia) how to drive, forcing both of them to confront the slightly dangerous task at hand while resurfacing tensions between them in the past…

EXCLUSIVE: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the walls of a Washington DC prison, will serve as the closing night selection of a new film festival taking place at California's San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The film, winner of the Festival Favorite Award as well as the…

Film at Lincoln Center unveiled its Spotlight section including Pablo Larraín's Maria with Angelina Jolie as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in her final days; the North American premieres of Leos Carax's It's Not Me; Alex Ross Perry's Pavements, Andrei Ujică's Beatles documentary TWST / Things We Said…

Sometimes, following your unique dreams can lead you to win unexpected rewards in coveted places. At least, this was the case for the Chinese-born writer-director Wendi Tang. In the surrealist drama Fishtank, which won the grand prize in the Tribeca Chanel Through Her Lens program, a young woman named…

What happens when you've exhausted all options and cast your last line of hope into the sea of unattainable American Dreams? This is the question posed by co-writer and director Justin Kim WooSŏk in his Korean American short film Sarajin. Making its debut at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival…

Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera has announced via X that he is quitting the platform in response to recent statements by its owner Elon Musk. "After the latest statements by the owner of Twitter (or rather, sorry, of X) , I have definitely lost the desire (already weakened) to…

The New York Film Festival said Luca Guadagnino's Queer will be the Spotlight Gala of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its U.S. premiere. The adaptation of William S. Burroughs's novel, scripted by Justin Kuritzkes, stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael…

Seriesly Berlin, Germany’s latest TV fest, has unveiled first conference lineup. Big international TV names including American Honey producer Lucas Ochoa, beetz brothers’ Christian Beetz and Becoming Karl Lagerfeld creator Isaure Pisani-Ferry will take part in a series of panels from September 16 to…

Ex-GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a prominent critic of Donald Trump, will get a major platform at the Toronto International Film Festival just weeks before the U.S. presidential election. TIFF announced its full documentary lineup this morning and among the standouts is The Last Republican, about…

Kate Winslet will be feted with the Zurich Film Festival's Golden Icon Award at its upcoming 20th edition running from October 3 to 13. Winslet will receive the award – paying tribute to her stellar career and filmography spanning films such Titanic to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Reader…

Cannes' two top prizewinners, Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light (Grand Prize) and Sean Baker's Anora (Palme d'Or) are among 32 features from 18 countries set for the New York Film Festival's Main Slate, unveiled today. Other titles at the venerable New York City mainstay include Roberto…

The 49th edition of the Toronto Film Festival continues to announce more movies, with the festival on Tuesday unveiled its 2024 Centrepiece lineup that features 43 titles from filmmakers representing 41 countries. TIFF runs September 5-15 under its new sponsorship with Rogers. In total, the list…