For the past eighteen years, HIFF has focused on emerging acting talent and highlights a dynamic class of actors each year. Since 2002, past honorees have included many future award winners and nominees, including award-winning actors Emily Blunt, Brie Larson, Adam Driver, Jessica Chastain, Mahershala Ali, Riz Ahmed, Alicia Vikander, Lupita Nyong’o, Emma Stone, Elisabeth […]
Closing Night: ‘WAVES’
September 10, 2019 by
WAVES, from director Trey Edward Shults, will screen on Monday, October 14, as the 27th annual Festival’s Closing Night selection. WAVES presents the lives of a suburban African-American family as they navigate life following a tragic loss. The film stars Emmy Award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown, Tony Award-winning actress Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kelvin Harrison Jr., […]
Friday Centerpiece: ‘The Irishman’
September 4, 2019 by
We are thrilled to announce today that THE IRISHMAN will screen as the Friday Centerpiece film on October 11 at Guild Hall. The film, directed by Martin Scorsese, is based on the novel I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, and explores the life of Frank Sheeran and his career as a mob hitman, […]
Five Films From Award-Winning Filmmakers Announced
September 4, 2019 by
Five HIFF 2019 films were announced today, including the Sunday Centerpiece, three in the popular Spotlight section and one award winner in the World Cinema Narrative section. Sunday Centerpiece film: In Fernando Meirelles’s THE TWO POPES, Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce star as Pope Benedict and the future Pope Francis as they attempt to […]
2019 Competition Slate Set
September 4, 2019 by
HIFF27 has selected the films for the narrative and documentary competitions. The films in the narrative competition are Mati Diop’s ATLANTICS, winner of the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Anke Blonde’s THE BEST OF DORIEN B., Jan Ole Gerster’s LARA, Andrew Patterson’s THE VAST OF NIGHT, and Hlynur Pálmason’s A WHITE, WHITE DAY. Documentary competition […]
