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 […]
HIFF27: ‘JUST MERCY’ and ‘FORD V FERRARI’
August 22, 2019 by
Today HIFF announced the first key films in the HIFF 2019 lineup: the Opening Night Film on Thursday, October 10 will be JUST MERCY, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, and the Saturday Centerpiece is James Mangold’s FORD V FERRARI. “Each of these films tell a unique, thrilling story, and we are excited to share them […]
HIFF27: Four World Premieres Announced
August 22, 2019 by
The first films in the HIFF 2019 lineup were announced today, including four world premieres: Treva Wurmfeld’s CONSCIENCE POINT, a ground level documentation of the Shinnecock Nation and their ongoing fight for recognition of their ancestral rights in Southampton (Views from Long Island) Anthony Baxter’s FLINT, a riveting documentary about the water crisis in Flint, […]
