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• 🇺🇸 Millennium Docs Against Gravity Announces Main Competition Slate Packed With Oscar-Caliber Documentaries — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the world-class nonfiction film festival in Poland, has announced its main competition lineup, with the winner earning instant qualification for the Academy Awards. A ...

  Related: #Documentary Cinema, #Awards Qualification
• 🇺🇸 The Match Factory Acquires Valeska Grisebach’s ‘The Dreamed Adventure’ Ahead of World Premiere in Competition at Cannes — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The Match Factory will handle international sales for “The Dreamed Adventure,” the latest feature film from Valeska Grisebach. The film marks the director’s return to the Croisette, having been select...

  Related: #Film Industry, #International Sales
• 🇺🇸 Sundance Heads South: Festival Announces Lineup for Third CDMX Edition in Mexico — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The Sundance spin-off returns at the end of the month, and is bringing some hits from its January edition with it.

  Related: #Cultural Exchange, #Industry Expansion
• 🇺🇸 Lower East Side Film Festival Will Celebrate 25 Years of ‘Ghost World,’ and Much More — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The Lower East Side Film Festival returns to New York April 30-May 4 at the Village East Cinema to champion independent movies in Manhattan. See the lineup and jury here.

  Related: #Independent Cinema, #Cultural Event
• 🇺🇸 Cannes: Léa Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve to Pull Double Duty in Competition — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The 2026 selection has been revealed, but not all big names will have "only" one film in the lineup.

  Related: #French Cinema, #Acting
• 🇺🇸 Cannes Film Festival: Asghar Farhadi, Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda & Ira Sachs Among Filmmakers Set For Competition Debuts — Full List — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The 2026 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced this morning, and among the headline filmmakers set to debut new works are veteran American indie director Ira Sachs and Iranian director Asghar Farh...

  Related: #Cinematic Auteurs, #Cultural Prestige
• 🇺🇸 Cannes: Studiocanal Boards Sales On Volker Schlöndorff’s ‘Visitation’ & Unveils First Image — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has boarded sales and unveiled a first image for Volker Schlöndorff’s Visitation, which was announced as having been selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection o...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Cinematic Comeback
• 🇺🇸 Cannes Film Festival Unveils 2026 Selection (Updating Live) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Artistic director Thierry Fremaux unveils the program for the 79th edition of the world's biggest film festival.

  Related: #Cultural Event, #Arts Announcement
• 🇺🇸 Cannes Unveils Lineup for 79th Edition: Watch Live — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The countdown to the 2026 edition is on as artistic director Thierry Fremaux unveils the program for the world's biggest film festival.

  Related: #Cultural Event, #Arts Announcement
• 🇺🇸 South East European Film Festival In LA Announces 2026 Lineup With ‘Panopticon,’ ‘Catane,’ ‘Our Father,’ ‘Militantropos’ & More — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The 21st annual South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) will open April 29 with Ioana Mischie’s feature debut Catane, a comedy-romance set in Romania described as “a modern-day fairytale, where ha...

  Related: #Cultural Exchange, #European Cinema
• 🇺🇸 SXSW 2026: The 8 Best Things We Watched in Austin, From a Semi-Suicidal Charlie Day to a Talking Fox Played by Olivia Colman — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Though this year’s South by Southwest Film & TV Festival was an abbreviated, seven-day affair, filmmakers still brought Austin’s clap-happy crowds an assortment of film and TV titles full of blood, la...

  Related: #Entertainment Highlights
• 🇺🇸 ‘Whispers in May,’ ‘Just Look Up,’ ‘Amazomania’ Among CPH:DOX Winners — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  'The Secret Reading Club of Kabul' and 'The Phantom Pain of Rojava' are also among the honorees of the 23rd edition of the Copenhagen documentary festival.

  Related: #Documentary Awards
• 🇺🇸 Sands Film Festival Returns For Fifth Edition, Headline Speakers Include Charlie Kaufman, Laura Mulvey, Joe Russo & Composer Craig Armstrong — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Scotland’s Sands film festival has set the lineup for its fifth edition, which will run from April 17 – 19.  Led by Festival Director Ania Trzebiatowska and produced by the Byre Theatre at the Univers...

  Related: #Arts & Culture
• 🇺🇸 Sarasota Film Festival Announces Full Lineup, Opening With Renny Harlin’s ‘Deep Water’ — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The Sarasota Film Festival has announced the lineup for the festival’s 28th annual edition, taking place April 10-19. Consisting of 47 features and 39 short films, the festival will kick off on April ...

  Related: #Cinema
• 🇺🇸 SXSW 2026 Film & TV Festival Announces Jury and Special Award Winners — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  South by Southwest announced the winners of its 2026 Film & TV Festival Jury and Special Awards, honoring standout creativity and innovation across narrative, documentary, short, music video, independ...

  Related: #Awards
• 🇺🇸 Mammootty, Mohanlal’s ‘Patriot’ to Open Indian Film Festival of L.A.’s 24th Edition — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has unveiled its full slate for its 24th edition, bookended by Mahesh Narayanan’s Malayalam espionage thriller “Patriot” as the opening film and Anusha Rizvi’s ...

  Related: #Indian Cinema
• 🇺🇸 Cannes 2026: The Films Most Likely to Make the Cut — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  From Almodóvar and Farhadi to Joel Coen and Lars von Trier, here are the titles generating the most buzz ahead of the 79th Cannes Film Festival.

  Related: #Industry Predictions
• 🇺🇸 Kristen Stewart to Preside Over Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Festival in France — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Kristen Stewart is set to preside over the competition jury of the fourth edition of the Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Festival which showcases films about youth in Southwestern France. Stewart, who made ...

  Related: #Celebrity Involvement
• 🇺🇸 Cannes 2026 Predictions: What’s In The International Mix? — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  The Cannes Film Festival was part of the awards season conversation once again this year having world premiered Best International Feature Film winner Sentimental Value as well as rival nominees It Wa...

  Related: #International Cinema
• 🇺🇸 Nick Jonas Warns ‘Be Careful Who You Share a Blunt With’ as Paul Rudd Music Comedy ‘Power Ballad’ Rocks SXSW — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas rocked SXSW with “Power Ballad,” the latest music-themed comedy film from “Once” and “Sing Street” director John Carney. The movie follows Rick Power (Rudd), a wedding band si...

  Related: #Comedy, #Music
• 🇺🇸 Miami Film Festival Announces 2026 Lineup, Awards For Adam Scott, Bob Odenkirk, Danielle Brooks, Lili Reinhart & More — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  The Miami Film Festival has set its lineup for the 43rd edition of the international cinematic event, running April 9-19 in the Sunshine State. This year’s festival will unveil 40 world premieres, two...

  Related: #Awards
• 🇺🇸 ‘Slanted’, SXSW ’25 Prize Winner, Debuts As Fest’s Latest Edition Kicks Off; Vietnamese Culinary Family Drama ‘Scent of Pho’ — Specialty Preview — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  As SXSW 2026 picks up steam, Bleecker Street opens body horror satire prize-winner from last year’s fest, Slanted from writer-director Amy Wang, on 588 screens. Shirley Chen  (Dìdi) stars as Joan Huan...

  Related: #Cinema Debuts
• 🇺🇸 ‘Stormbound’ Veers Toward SXSW And CPH:DOX With Hurricane Force Winds, Tornadoes And IMAX-Sized Action — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Ominous clouds are gathering at SXSW and CPH:DOX – not necessarily in the skies, but certainly on the big screen. The IMAX Documentary presentation Stormbound, about daring storm chaser Jeff...

  Related: #Natural Disasters
• 🇺🇸 Boulder Int’l Film Fest: Alec Baldwin Set for Live Episode of THR’s ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning actor will discuss his life and career on April 11.

  Related: #Celebrity Event
• 🇺🇸 Fribourg Film Festival Sidebars Spotlight Colombia, Mothers in Film and Audience Picks — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Alongside its international competition, the 40th edition of the Fribourg Intl. Film Festival unfolds across a wide range of parallel programs that expand the festival’s focus beyond premieres to retr...

  Related: #Cultural Spotlight
• 🇺🇸 How Fribourg Became a Window on the Global South, Including Hot Spots Like Lebanon and Iran: ‘For Many Directors, Filming Is a Matter of Survival’ — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  As it marks its 40th edition, the Fribourg Intl. Film Festival remains one of Europe’s key showcases for films from the Global South, a region artistic director Thierry Jobin says continues to define ...

  Related: #Global South, #Cinematic Resistance
• 🇺🇸 ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Lead Natalia Reyes to Head Jury at Alternativa Film Festival in Colombia (EXCLUSIVE) — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The Alternativa Film Festival, part of a global non-profit film initiative aimed at supporting emerging filmmakers from the global South, has tapped Colombian actress-producer Natalia Reyes to head th...

  Related: #Celebrity Appointment
• 🇺🇸 Full Frame Announces 2026 Festival Slate: 13 World Premieres & Many Of Year’s Most Talked About Documentaries — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC has announced its 2026 lineup, a slate with more than a dozen world premieres as well as award-winning films from around the world. Th...

  Related: #Documentaries
• 🇺🇸 Award-Winning ‘One In A Million’ Makes European Premiere At Thessaloniki Doc Fest Ahead Of CPH:DOX Bow — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance award-winning One in a Million, a longitudinal film about a Syrian girl caught between life as a refugee in Germany and memories of her homeland, has just made its European pre...

  Related: #Documentary
• 🇺🇸 Projects by ‘Honeyland,’ ‘Cleveland Versus Wall Street’ Directors Among Visions du Réel Industry Lineup — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Switzerland’s documentary Visions du Réel has unveiled the 31 documentary projects selected for the 2026 edition of its VdR–Industry platform, marking the first program overseen by newly appointed hea...

  Related: #Documentary Industry