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The 2026 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) announces its 2026 Festival Honors, Sunday, October 18

NBFF Honorees include KJ Apa, Sosie Bacon, Gemma Chan, Jonás Cuarón, Sarah Finn, Mckenna Grace, Justin Hartley, Taraji P. Henson and Jack O'Connell The 2026 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly...

VIDEO : a taste of Newport Beach Film Festival watch the sizzle reel

Join us October 15-22 for the 27th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival. Celebrated as the leading luxury lifestyle film festival in the United States, the annual Newport Beach Film Festival attracts...

The 27th annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) announces its 2026 Irish Showcase, premieres and Irish Spotlight Celebration

Festival will host the Premieres of TRAD, THE BODY IS WATER, and YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHO’S DEADThe 27th annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly announces its 2026 Irish Showcase, the...

27th ANNUAL NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL Announces Frampton as opening film , Peter Frampton attending for a Q&A

“Frampton” Announced as Opening Night with Peter Frampton in Attendance The 2026 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly announces its 2026 Festival Honors, to take place on Sunday, October 18 at...

VIDEO: Catch a first look at the NBFF lineup through their video trailers

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL TO CLOSE WITH “BEHEMOTH!" WITH DIRECTOR TONY GILROY IN ATTENDANCE

The Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) announced today that Oscar-nominated director/writer Tony Gilroy’s “Behemoth!,” starring Pedro Pascal, will close the 27th annual festival on Thursday, October...

27th ANNUAL NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL (NBFF) ANNOUNCES FESTIVAL LINE-UP

Centerpiece Screenings include “A Talent for Murder,” “Ink,” “Josephine,” “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” “Paper Tiger,” and “Wild Horse Nine” The 27th annual Newport Beach Film Festival...

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SCAD Savannah Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Today, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival (Oct. 24-31) unveiled its 2026 lineup and panel programming, featuring more than 160 films across Gala and Signature Screenings, Special Presentations,...

Despite Russia’s Ongoing Attacks on Kyiv, “Molodist” Film Festival Announces Dates for Its 55th Edition and Reveals New Visual Identity

The 55th “Molodist” International Film Festival will take place in Kyiv from 24 October to 1 November. To mark its 55th anniversary, the festival has unveiled a new visual identity created by McCann...

FNC55 : FNC PARTNERS WITH THE QUEER PALM TO LAUNCH THE QUEER LOUVE AWARD

On the occasion of its 55th edition, the Festival du nouveau cinéma marks a historic turning point by launching the Queer Louve Award in partnership with the prestigious Queer Palm from the Cannes...

What Remains of the Transformation: FilmFestival Cottbus Explores the 1990s and Their Lasting Impact

The upheavals of 1989/90 continue to resonate today. Biographical ruptures, new freedoms and social upheaval in the 1990s continue to shape political culture across Central and Eastern Europe. More...

Fantasporto 2027 / 47th Porto International Film Festival opens the call for entry

PORTO CITY OF CINEMA, CULTURE, ARCHITECTURE, LEISURE…THE CITY OF FANTASPORTOSUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN TILL NOVEMBER 15th The Fantasporto 2027/47th Porto International Film Festival informs that the...

Julien Dubuque International Film Festival April 17 - 24, 2027 Call for entry opening now!

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FICCI FRAMES, 2026, 5: Netflix announces ‘Lock Upp’ New Season and Prime Video launches Dupahiya 2

FICCI FRAMES, 2026, 5: Netflix announces ‘Lock Upp’ New Season and Prime Video launches Dupahiya 2 On Day 1, 29 September, the fireside chat was on, ‘The New Fandom: How Reels, Creators and...

Stakeout premieress in Albania at Kuçova International Independent Film Festival

Stakeout has been selected to play in competition at the launching edition of Kuçova International Independent Film Festival (KIIFF) — Where Industrial Heritage Meets Contemporary CinemaGet ready...

IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY will close UNAFF Festival

October 256:50 PM IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY (US, 81min) 8:30 PM Awards Ceremony and Closing Night Reception sponsored by Coupa Café, Douce France, La Boheme and Terun Music by...

In the company of Wolves premieres at Insbruck Nature Film Festival

innsbruck nature film festival is a renowned nature and environmental film festival in Austria, which will take place for the 25th time in 2026. The international film contest attracts every year...

DIGGER: DIG THIS!

DIGGER: SUCCESS OF A DISASTER GENIUS MOVIE!Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORTe1wW3WgI have always been the first one to admit about being wrong. In this case, we are “just” talking about...

‘Emerging from the Shadows’ Brings the Musical Legacies of Weinberg and Korngold to Newport Beach Film Festival

Emerging from the Shadows: Rediscovering the Legacies of Weinberg & Korngold, the acclaimed documentary from U.S.-German filmmaker Veronika Emily Pohl, has been named an Official Selection of the...

Spencer Jay Kim’s ‘The Fixed Mark’ Launches Festival Run With a Powerful Psychological Drama

The Fixed Mark, a gripping new short drama from writer/director Spencer Jay Kim, is embarking on its festival run. Blending psychological suspense, supernatural mystery and an intimate human story of...

A glimpse at what to expect at MIPCOM Next Docs from France - in partnership with Unifrance

Founded in 1949, Unifrance is the organisation responsible for promoting French cinema and TV content worldwide. During MIPCOM, Unifrance will present the first edition of Next Docs from France on...

Primetime, Review: An up-dater on predators

Primetime, Review: An up-dater on predatorsLook at the premise. There is a show on NBC TV in the USA, called Predator. It lures potential sex offenders/paedophiles into meetings with its decoy boys...

First retrospective at the second edition of Filmfest Aachen dedicated to Aachen based director/producer Michael Chauvistré from Happy Endings • Oct 07, 2026 at 08:39 PM

First retrospective at the second edition of Filmfest Aachen is dedicated to Aachen based director/producer Michael Chauvistré.Filmfest Aachen is a new international film festival founded in 2025 by...

What Remains of the Transformation: FilmFestival Cottbus Explores the 1990s and Their Lasting Impact

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Coming Home from ShadowLand to SpiritWorld

USA April 2026 85 minutes documentary film by J.Mitchell Johnson & Daniel Golding (Quechan Indian tribe)

Coming Home: From Shadowland to Spiritworld is the story of a California native tribe’s surprisingly successful recovery of sacred land and their unique quest for reunification with descendants of tribal women taken to Russia at the end of that country’s brief colonial enterprise on the California coast.

Shot over a period of 14 years beginning in 2012 in a cinéma vérité style, Coming Home: From
Shadowland to Spiritworld follows the story of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians as they undertake an extraordinary effort to reclaim their ancestral lands on the Sonoma Coast after 170 years of displacement. Interweaving the little-known history of Russian colonization in California with a modern story of negotiation, diplomacy, and ceremony, the film shows how land repatriation becomes a powerful act of cultural renewal. The Kashia tell their own story without a third-party narrator as they confront the legacy of historical trauma—including generational loss and the ongoing impacts of colonialism—the return to their sacred places like Metini and Danaka reveals how restoring land can help restore identity, resilience, and community.

After sacred land goes up for sale following 170 years of dispossession brought-on by

the California genocide of native peoples, Kashia Pomo tribal-elder (OTIS PARRISH) mentors a pair of young tribal members (MARTINA MORGAN and JERRY PINOLA) on a journey seeking coastal land return and self-recovery that inspires healing, spiritual revival, and a search for the truth about those tribal members gone missing and murdered.

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STAKEOUT by Riker Lynch USA 90 minutes April 26

Suspicious of his new girlfriend, Jon enlists his wannabe-detective best friend for a DIY stakeout - only to stumble on a dangerous secret that puts them in way over their heads.

Action, comedy romantic thriller by Riker Lynch Writer, Director, Producer

Produced by Billy Gould, Ross Lynch, Gordy De St. Jeor and Riker Lynch

Casting: Riker Lynch, Titus Makin, Bella Martinez, Samuel Del Real, Curt Mega, Sammy Ferrenbach,Bobby UKey, Kayden Muller-Janssen

Riker’s band is ready to perform in sync with festival screenings.

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IN THE COMPANY OF WOLVES: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY Documentary by Susan Kucera

1 hour 21 minutes
USA, December 2025

The American West is a mythos known around the world — a landscape of freedom, rugged individualism, boundless possibility, and the collision of human ambition with ecological reality. This film explores the truth beneath it, revealing how wolves — and the domesticated animals traveling in their wake — shaped our ideas, our folklore, and our sense of nationhood, altering the course of American history as profoundly as any human hand.

Academy-Award winner, JEFF BRIDGES narrates this stunning journey, following wolves as co-travelers through American history — from the shores of England to the birth of the New Republic and ultimately the colonization of the vast, contested landscapes of the modern American West. A place where the ensemble doesn’t merely walk through history; they trot, lope, stampede, and migrate across it reminding us that the connection between the wild and the domesticated have always reflected a deeper story of who we are as a nation — and who we might yet become.

Susan Kucera and Academy Award winner, Jeff Bridges, team up for their 3rd Documentary Film together, In the Company of Wolves; An American Journey. This is Susan's 8th documentary film following award winning films such as, Living in the Future's Past, Hot Money, 12th Hour, For the Love of Tango, Wild Genius, Breath of Life and Trading on Thin Air. She spent her youth filming on the ice fields of the Athabasca Glacier and has a deep love of nature, cinematography, animals and the great outdoors.

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"Lala my readhead" script by Nellie K. and Deniz Nala

'LALA, MY REDHEAD'

Feature film by Nellie K. and Deniz Nala

in development stage, with a finalised script

Looking for support: partners and financiers.

Love and poverty, betrayal and wealth - centuries of traditions put to the test! A compelling story intricately woven into a comprehensive exploration of women’s status against the backdrop of the Roma culture. From the director of an award-winning film in Cannes 2023.

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The awards of 9th European Work in Progress

And the winners are...! The 9th edition of European Work in Progress (EWIP) awarded 10 outstanding film projects during a festive ceremony on the evening of September 29th, 2026. In cooperation...

2026 SCAD SAVANNAH FILM FESTIVAL REVEALS HONOREES

Keanu Reeves to Receive Legend of Cinema Award Top Award Season Contenders Gemma Chan, John Cho, Carrie Coon, Rosalind Eleazar, Jordan Firstman, James Gray, Anthony Ippolito, Kane Parsons, Billie...

San Diego International Film Festival announced honorees at our 25th Anniversary Night of the Stars Tribute.

Chelsea Film Festival Speakers from FIFA, The Gilded Age, Viewpark at Reel Magic Hour Industry Summit

We are pleased to announce the next influential speakers confirmed for the Reel Magic Hour® Industry Summit. Join the CEO of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Viewpark’s Executive, Variety’s 2026 Top 10...