Festivals & Events
Festivals & Events
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“I Had Never Filmed Near the Front Before”: Dmytro Hreshko on Karlovy Vary-Premiering Ukrainian War Documentary Divia
At a time when observation remains the dominant approach among contemporary Ukrainian documentarians and it feels as though every subject suited to a distanced gaze has already been explored, in Divia Dmytro Hreshko approaches nature during wartime with radical, dialogue-free minimalism. Originally from Uzhhorod, a city on the Slovakian border, Hreshko has celebrated Ukraine’s landscape in previous documentaries such as Snow Leopards of the Carpathians (2019) or Mountains and Heaven in Between (2022). With his signature admiration for picturesque scenery—captured through drone and sustained by extra-long shots with deep focus—Divia is a harmonious continuation of his career as both director […]
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2025 Oxbelly Retreat Screenwriters Fellows & Advisors Announced
Greek nonprofit Oxbelly has announced in a press release the participants of the 2025 Oxbelly Retreat, taking place June 28–July 6 at Costa Navarino in Messinia, Greece. The Oxbelly Retreat is an annual gathering of international storytellers, dedicated to the exchange of ideas, deepening of craft and broadening of artistic horizons through intercultural dialogue. Now in its tenth year, the 2025 Oxbelly Retreat includes programs for writers working in film and literary fiction. The Retreat is founded on the principles of embracing independence and risk-taking, as fellows move from early to mid-career and develop work they seek to bring to […]
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Free Webinar: CRISIS/OPPORTUNITY: Four New Innovative Distributors Rethinking the Indie Model
8 Above’s June webinar, co-sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine, profiles four new adventurous and innovative distributors that have emerged on the US independent film scene. Join Scott Macaulay (Filmmaker) and Jon Reiss for a conversation with Elizabeth Woodward (Willa), Munir Atalla (Watermelon Pictures), Elizabeth Purchell (Muscle Distribution), and Theodore Schaefer & James Belfer (Cartuna x Dweck). 🎤 What The Webinar Will Cover How each company approaches curation, audience building, and community engagement What makes these new distribution models unique—and replicable How filmmakers can find the right fit for their work in a shifting ecosystem Whether you’re prepping for a release, scouting […]
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Uniting Home and the World: A Report From the 2025 Play-Doc International Film Festival
Each year, the Play-Doc International Film Festival brings a modest but well-curated selection of classic and contemporary films to Tui, Galicia, a historic border town that sits on the banks of the Miño River separating Spain and Portugal. As its name implies, Play-Doc is ostensibly dedicated to nonfiction cinema, though like other festivals with a similar remit (True/False, Visions du Réel, etc), it takes a liberal approach to what constitutes a documentary. The festival’s 21st edition, which ran from May 7 to 11, went further in this regard than ever before. Alongside two competitive programs, one for new and recent international […]
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DC/DOX 2025: So Many Reality Checks
“Well, we really needed that,” the woman in front of me said to her companion as we all left the opening night screening, Steal This Story, Please! at DC/DOX Film Festival. Co-founders Sky Sitney and Jamie Shor in fact seem to have offered up a timely slate, designed to inspire us in dark times and to provide examples of democratic action. And Washington, D.C. audiences embraced it. Their timing couldn’t have been better—the festival, in downtown D.C., occurred around the “No Kings” demonstrations accompanying Pres. Trump’s military parade. Steal This Story, Please!, by longtime Michael Moore collaborators Tia Lessen and […]
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“The Best is Always Zero Budget”: David Verbeek on Tribeca 2025 Premiere The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard
In a contemporary take on Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard depicts a woman who lives amongst wolves being whisked away and plunged into human society. Director David Verbeek presents this jarring story as a kind of apocalyptic fairytale, in which a feral woman learns what it means to be human while humanity itself is bracing for the end of the world as they know it. Mostly set on a repurposed offshore oil rig, the film explores how the interests of men and nature inevitably clash in the face of impending […]
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Our 16 Most Anticipated Films of the 2025 Tribeca Festival
Although the heat has yet to properly arrive, today’s kickoff of the annual Tribeca Festival, now firmly ensconced in its post-Cannes calendar slot, signals the unofficial start to the summer season among the New York City cinema-going sect. Running from June 4 through 15, the program this year boasts 118 feature films with an impressive 95 world premieres among them. Even if the word “film” is no longer centered in the festival’s actual title, it certainly remains the concerted programming focus. Though there are also plenty of offerings in their TV, games, audio, interactive and Tribeca X sections—the latter of […]
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Metrograph Announces Edo Choi as Film Programmer
Metrograph, the New York repertory and first-run cinema, announces today the hiring of Edo Choi as Film Programmer. Choi was most recently the Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image and begins at Metrograph immediately. A New York-based film programmer, projectionist, and critic, between 2014 and 2019 Choi worked as a projectionist and then programmer for the Maysles Documentary Center. From late 2019 to early 2025, he was the Assistant—later Associate—Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, as well as the Senior Programmer of the Museum’s annual festival First Look, which celebrated its […]
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Adolescence Sweeps 2nd Annual Gotham TV Awards
Netflix’s limited series Adolescence picked up three prizes at the second annual Gotham TV Awards, held on June 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Among those awards were breakthrough limited series, lead performance in a limited series (Stephen Graham), and supporting performance in a limited series (Owen Cooper). Accepting the top prize, actor and co-creator Graham expressed surprise that Adolescence has already become a worldwide phenomenon. “We’re overwhelmed for you to embrace us the way you have … . This was a small colloquial piece that was made with love, respect, humility and dignity, and we treated […]
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“‘History’ with a Capital ‘H'”: Mascha Schilinski on Cannes 2025 Award-Winner Sound of Falling
Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling was so rapturously acclaimed upon its premiere on the first full day of Cannes 2025 that some thought they’d already seen a possible Palme d’Or winner. In the end, her film shared the Jury Prize with another adored Competition title, Sirât, whose end-times death-trip might seem to overshadow the ordinary-sounding logline for Sound of Falling: four generations of girls on a farm in Germany. But this film swiftly establishes itself as an equally virtuosic secret history and sustained experiment in female subjectivity in kaleidoscopic form, drawing on scenes and notes from journals and voices from […]
