Cannes has added new films including Resurrection by Bi Gan, in competition along with the Cannes Classics to complete the 2025 program lineup.
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Film Festivals
Cannes has added new films including Resurrection by Bi Gan, in competition along with the Cannes Classics to complete the 2025 program lineup.
The 2025 Tribeca Festival announced new additions, including visual albums, documentaries, and narrative films.
Starwalker, the dramatic musical film from Indigenous filmmaker Corey Payette will have its world premiere at the 35th Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival.
The 3rd DC/DOX documentary film festival taking place June 12-15, 2025 in Washington, DC announced its full slate of films, including 59 features and 35 shorts from 25 countries.
Eva Victor’s comedy-drama film Sorry, Baby will make its UK premier as the opening film of Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Watch the trailer for Everything’s Going to Be Great, the comedy-drama film starring Allison Janney, Bryan Cranston, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth.
I, Poppy directed by Vivek Chaudhary has won the Best International Feature Documentary award along with the $10,000 cash prize at the 2025 Hot Docs documentary film festival.
The 32nd New York African Film Festival running May 1 through 31, 2025 will screen 125 films from Africa and its diaspora at Film at Lincoln Center, the Maysles Documentary Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The 11th Mammoth Lakes Film Festival taking place in-person from May 21-25, 2025, in Mammoth Lakes, California will open with the psychological drama Went Up the Hill.
The 24th Open Roads: New Italian Cinema returns to Film at Lincoln Center in New York City from May 29 to June 5, 2025. It opens with the New York premiere of Francesca Comencini’s latest film, The Time It Takes
The 24th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) will screen 85 new non-fiction films, including 22 films local to the Bay Area, from May 29 to June 8, 2025.
Chaired by Juliette Binoche, Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, and Jeremy Strong are among the jury for the 78th Cannes Film Festival.