Slapstick LIVE ONLINE 2021

Slapstick Live Online 2021 an outstanding silent and visual comedy festival. This year featuring guests including Rob Brydon, Matt Lucas, Noel Fielding Stewart Lee and Henning Wehn

SPARK FX 2021 Conference

Year after year, SPARK FX presents some of the most creative and innovative work in VFX for both film and television. Our mission is to foster community, ignite the imagination, highlight leading artistic and technological advancements within Vancouver’s VFX industry through our signature events.

2021 Durango Independent Film Festival

The 16th Annual Durango Independent Film Festival spotlights independent films of all genres; Narrative features and shorts, animated shorts, documentary features and shorts, Native Cinema, adventure, LGBTQ, and family films. 

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Hayti Heritage Film Festival

DC Environmental Film Festival 

The DC Environmental Film Festival is the world’s premier showcase of environmentally themed films. Since 1993 our mission has been to celebrate Earth and inspire understanding and stewardship of the environment through the power of film.

Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2021

Kingston Canadian Film Festival

Virgin Media Dublin IFF

The Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2021 brings you the best new Irish and International films.

WOW FILM FESTIVAL

WOW "Wales One World" Film Festival curates eye-opening world cinema so you can experience the weird, wild, wonderful world we live in. The 2021 WOW Film Festival is all available online, and all free! 

AARP Movies for Grownups Screenings

SHORTlisted

We're screening 10 of the SHORT listed films nominated for the best short films at 2021 Academy Awards. Join us in celebrating these films and filmmakers who had also been official Palm Springs International ShortFest selections. Exclusive Q&A's with cast and crew will be available after each film.

2021 World Wildlife Day Film Showcase: Forests

The Film Showcase will be one of the global events that will accompany next year’s UN World Wildlife Day (3 March) celebrations and help illustrate its theme: Forests and livelihoods: sustaining people and planet

Hot channels

True Mothers

Memories of the Future [Spanish]: Memorias del Futuro

En los años 2018 y 2019 un grupo diverso de investigadores salió a investigar una anomalía ecológica en Tabasco, México--un bosque costero, floreciendo unos cientos kilómetros del océano.

The Letter Room

Anniversary Celebrations

Yes-People

AI in VFX

Production Sessions

White Eye

Memories of the Future

In 2018-2019 a diverse group of researchers set out to investigate an ecological anomaly in Tabasco, Mexico--a coastal mangrove forest, thriving hundreds of kilometers from the ocean.

Germany

STREITGESPRÄCH | CRITICS’ DEBATE

Sion Sono, Sen Fujimaru, Riku Kurokouchi, Mala Morgan, Tatsuhiro Yamaoka, Taro Suwa, Masaya Suzuki; Japan, Japanese, Deutschlandpremiere, 147, 2020, Japanische OmeU // Japanese OwEs

DRACULA SEX TAPE / RED POST ON ESCHER STREET

United States of America

The Nile Hilton Incident

Tarik Saleh; 2017, 106, Arabic, Egypt/Sweden/Denmark/Germany, NR, Distributor: Strand Releasing

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival, this stunning political thriller is based on a true story. Just weeks before the 2011 Egyptian revolution that would eventually oust President Hosni Mubarak, Noredin Mustafa, an ordinary police officer in Cairo’s corrupt system, investigates the murder of a beautiful club singer at the Nile Hilton Hotel. When he realizes that what initially seems to be a crime of passion is something that cuts to the heart of the country’s untouchable power elite, he decides to break the rules in the name of justice, putting him on a crash course not only with the system but with himself as well.

Water Logged

The town of Grand Forks, BC has suffered catastrophic flooding 3 of the past 4 years. As a result, Grand Forks resident Jennifer Houghton, along with over 100 of her neighbours, is being forced from her home.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Jersey

Guernsey

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Ugyen Norbu Lhendup, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Pem Zam , Pawo Choyning Dorji ; Bhutan, subtitles, U, 109, 2019

In Bhutan, the nation of “Gross National Happiness”, a restless young teacher is sent to work at the world's most remote school high in the Himalayas. He’d rather be anywhere else, but can the sweet children of Lunana win him over? Perhaps he’ll find what he seeks despite the yak in the classroom.

Q&A for FIRST WE EAT

Join film director Suzanne Crocker, Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion Ben Lake and Morganne Goodman from Ty Coed Treehouse, a local food business in Aberystwyth, to talk about the local food movement, food justice and food security.

Made in Bangladesh

Rubaiyat Hossain, Rikita Shimu, Novera Rahman, Parvin Paru; Bangladesh, France, Denmark, Portugal, 15, 95, 2019, subtitles

Inspired by real life stories of women’s rights activism, this empowering drama brings a tear to your eye and a cheer to your lips. Working long hours in a dangerous factory, seamstress Shimu and her co-workers decide to set up a union. Despite oppressive sweatshop bosses and her husband’s disapproval, Shimu discovers a wealth of courage and resilience.

Canada

Sugar Daddy

Kelly McCormack, Colm Feore, Amanda Brugel, Ishan Davé, Aaron Ashmore, Hilary McCormack, Kristin Fieldhouse, Wendy Morgan, Christine Armstrong, Lisa Gutberlet, James Huntsman, Andreas Olavarria, Marie-Hélène L. Délorme (FOXTROTT), Lauren Grant, Kelly McCormack, Lori Lozinski, Jesse Jerome, Kelly McCormack, Adam Stein; Canada, English, 101, 2021

Debate: VOM SUCHEN UND FINDEN DES KINOS | LOST & FOUND

Keynote: Dismantling the Master’s House | كلمة رئيسية: تفكيك منزل السيد

Speaker: Francois Verges Françoise (author, public educator, decolonial feminist)

المتحدثة: فرانسواز فيرجيس (كاتبة، محاضرة، متخصصة في النسوية ما بعد الكولونيالية)

Ontario

LUXOR

Andrea Riseborough, Michael Landes, Shirin Redha,  Zeina Durra; UK, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, English, Arabic, 2020, 1h 25 min

Beautifully sparse character study amid Egypt's ancient glory.

RESISTANCE

Jessie Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramirez, Jonathan Jabkubowicz; United States, English, 2h, 2020

Based on the inspiring true story, RESISTANCE follows the revolutionary tale of a selfless act that would forever change countless lives.

THE ASSISTANT

Julia Garner, Owen Holland, Jon Orsini , Kitty Green; United States, English, 1h 27 min, 2020

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive.

Roundtable: Sharjah Biennial in Retrospect 3 | طاولة مستديرة: بينالي الشارقة مستعاداً 3


Speakers: John Akomfrah (artist, filmmaker), Eungie Joo (Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), Omar Kholeif (Director of Collections and Senior Curator, Sharjah Art Foundation), Amina Menia (artist), Otobong Nkanga (artist). Moderator: Aisha Stoby (curator/researcher)

المتحدثون: جون أكومفرا (فنان ومخرج سينمائي)؛ أنجي جو (قيّمة الفن المعاصر، متحف سان فرانسيسكو للفن الحديث)؛ عمر خليف (مدير المقتنيات وقيّم أول، مؤسسة الشارقة للفنون)؛ أمينة مينيا (فنانة)؛ أوتوبونغ نكانغا (فنانة)
مدير الجلسة: عائشة ستوبي (قيّمة / باحثة)

March Meeting 2021: Welcome remarks | لقاء مارس 2021: كلمة افتتاحية

Speaker: Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation)

المتحدثة: حور القاسمي (رئيس مؤسسة الشارقة للفنون)

World Cinema Project: Chatranj-e-Baad (Chess of the Wind)

Hot screenings to pre-order

Capital Irish Film Festival

AFI Silver is proud to host the 15th Capital Irish Film Festival (CIFF), presented by Solas Nua. Celebrating Irish identity, culture and artistry, CIFF's lineup brings the best in contemporary Irish cinema.

Spokane Jewish Cultural Film Festival

Since 2005, the Spokane Jewish Cultural Film Festival has brought to Spokane international films that share Jewish life and culture with the community. We continue this year with seven features and two shorts that offer fascinating glimpses into the diversity of Jewish experiences around the world.

Film festivals & screening series

Denver Film

JBFC Virtual Marquee

Unshakable Friendship

Gene Siskel Film Center

The Film Center’s programming includes annual film festivals that celebrate diverse voices and international cultures, premieres of trailblazing work by today’s independent filmmakers, restorations and revivals of essential films from cinema history, and insightful, provocative discussions.

Utah Film Center Screening Room

Free weekly film screenings, filmmaker Q&As, and more! Featuring the best in documentary films and beyond that utilize the power of film to educate, inspire, and engage, transcending political, geographic, cultural, and religious boundaries to highlight human experiences from around the world.

Amit Dutta's Cinematic Museum

Enjoy impressionistic narration, immersive sound design, and gorgeous visual compositions, in Amit Dutta’s Cinematic Museum.

Monographs

Monographs: Essays on Asian Cinema Commissioned by the Asian Film Archive asks ten filmmakers to use the video essay form to reflect on the moving image in the context of their region. 

Montclair Film Virtual Cinema

Montclair Film's Virtual Cinema is the best way to watch the latest movies from home while supporting our non-profit organization.

AFI Silver Virtual Screening Room

Virtual Cinema from Cinemapolis

Virtual Cinema platform for Cinemapolis, Ithaca's Member Supported Independent Movie Theater

The Brattlite

A cinematic institution, Cambridge, MA's The Brattle brings its acclaimed programming online with THE BRATTLITE, an ongoing series of virtual repertory screenings and periodic special events running alongside weekly premieres of new titles.

BAMPFA

While BAMPFA is temporarily closed, enjoy new releases, restored classics, and exclusive film series, selected by our curators, now available in your own home. When you rent a screening, you're supporting both filmmakers and BAMPFA during an especially challenging time for independent cinema.

Arthouse cinemas

Long Live Rock...Celebrate The Chaos

MADE IN ABYSS: Dawn of the Deep Soul

Truth to Power

2040 US Virtual Screenings

COUP 53

17 Blocks

Sophie Jones

Days of the Bagnold Summer

MR. SOUL!

Cinema '76 @ Home

As the community quarantine puts the nation on hold, a political science major and a student working part time as a delivery driver butt heads online – but soon find themselves falling for each other. Will their love survive once it’s taken offline?

The New Normal (2020 ABFF Award Winner)

A relationship dramedy, The New Normal is everyday people battling Discrimination, Misogyny, Addiction, Mental Health, Nepotism etc while trying their darndest to escape society’s suffocating boots with sometimes dire, often hilarious and always surprising results on their way to a whole New Normal.

Looking For A Lady w/ Fangs & Moustache

Virtual cinema releases

JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles - True Mothers

LUNAFEST: FILMS BY AND ABOUT WOMEN

My Name is Sara

Sheen Center x 8beats

8beats is the largest Catholic collaborative independent film project ever made. 8beats is an anthology film that explores the collision of the beatitudes into our human experience.

Special events

Toronto Motorcycle Film Festival

TMFF Cinema is a curated collection of the best adventure, dramatic and inspirational stories as told through the lens of the motorcycle.

ACS Talks

The ACS Talks library consists of over 30 hours of Q&As with filmmakers from all over the world talking about their films and filmmaking.