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Ron Howard, Leonard Maltin, Brian Grazer, Nachhattar Singh Chandi, Mike Farrah, Joe Farrell, Karina Lomelin Ripper, Lili Rodriguez and more attend the inaugural Palm Springs Honors at Soho House West Hollywood, presented by the Palm Springs International Film Festival and sponsored by Soho House.
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TheyDream blends 2D and 3D animation, motion capture, handcrafted miniatures, and digital rotoscoping with intimate live-action footage to offer a personal and inventive exploration of family, memory, and loss.
All the Music in the World is an intimate portrait of one of the world’s great pianists – Emanuel Ax, an unassuming virtuoso entering his 50th year on stage.
How to Rob a Bank stars Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Christian Slater, Pete Davidson and John C. Reilly.
You Can’t Leave stars Spencer Boldman as a young man who searches for answers behind his sister’s mysterious disappearance.
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, starring Mahershala Ali, is now playing in select theaters and expands nationwide this Friday.
LL Cool J, Nicole Friday, Gayle King, Mike Colter, appear for The American Black Film Festival Pop Up’s second annual tour stop in New York City.
Al Pacino has been named the recipient of the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.
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"It’s the work and the actors along the way that have been among the greatest joys of my life. It’s an honor to be recognized by SAG-AFTRA in celebrating the journey."
The Overall Audience Award at the 49th Mill Valley Film Festival went to Tenzing, with Elsinore, taking the Audience Award | Narrative, and When a Witness Recants, winning for Documentary.
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In the documentary Heathens, directed by David Cowan and Shawn Hardin, five Americans who have quietly abandoned the religious beliefs they grew up with come together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to confront the fear of living openly.
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Ava DuVernay's 14th leads the nominees for the 11th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards with six nominations, including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director for DuVernay.
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The 39th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, set to take place November 12 to 22, 2026, has announced the main International and Envision competition lineups.
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IDFA opens with the world premiere of White Tiger Column by Robert Mentov, Dwight Jantzi, and Bryan Dickie.
BEING HEUMANN trailer (vimooz.me/yugu9p)
The biographical drama from Siân Heder follows disability rights activist Judy Heumann as she leads more than a hundred young people in a radical act of defiance: taking over the San Francisco Federal Building in a fight for equal rights.
In Spite of Ourselves, starring Brett Dier and Conor Leslie, follows two imperfect people trying to figure out whether they can move past their fears — and give love a real chance. Opens in select theaters this Friday.
Coward is Belgium’s official submission for Best International Feature Film for the 99th Academy Awards®. Set at the height of World War I in the Belgian trenches, it unfolds as an epic, intimate journey of youthful self-discovery through love, art, and survival. In theaters Christmas.
Mahershala Ali took to CultureCon main stage for a Creative Genius panel on artistic freedom, diverse storytelling, and creative inspiration with veteran journalist & influential media executive Datwon Thomas, and received the Creative Icon Award last Sunday.
The 2026 Camellia Award was presented to Ann Hui during the opening ceremony of the 31st Busan International Film Festival, held on October 6. The Camellia Award recognizes the creative achievements of women filmmakers who have elevated the role of women in the film industry and paved new paths.
