Film festivals
FILE - Japanese film director Naomi Kawase speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2018. The documentary film produced by Kawase about the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics premiered on Monday, May 23, 2022, shown to reporters and other invited guests in the Japanese capital. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Tokyo Olympic film debuts in Japan; headed next to Cannes

By Stephen Wade And Yuri Kageyama May. 22, 2022 10:07 PM EDT

FILE - An attendee appears above signage at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 5, 2019, in Toronto. Festival organizers announced that the 45th edition of TIFF will take place Sept. 9-18 and return to in-person screenings in many of its usual downtown Toronto venues, like the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Roy Thomson Hall, and the Princess of Wales Theatre. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Toronto Film Festival plots in-person, digital edition

By Jake Coyle Jun. 23, 2021 09:59 AM EDT

Sharon Stone attends the premiere of Dave Chappelle's untitled documentary during the closing night celebration for the 20th Tribeca Festival, at Radio City Music Hall, on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
15 months later, Radio City reopens with Dave Chappelle

By Jake Coyle Jun. 20, 2021 12:31 AM EDT

Producer Lin-Manuel Miranda, right, and wife Vanessa Nadal attend the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival opening night premiere of "In The Heights" at the United Palace theater on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Curtain rises on the Tribeca Festival, and on New York, too

By Jake Coyle Jun. 09, 2021 03:02 PM EDT

Festival director Thierry Fremaux, left and Festival president Pierre Lescure during the presentation of the official selection of the 74th International Cannes Film Festival, in Paris, Thursday, June 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Cannes lineup features Wes Anderson, Sean Penn, Leox Carax

By Jake Coyle Jun. 03, 2021 10:27 AM EDT

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Benicio del Toro, center, and Don Cheadle in a scene from "No Sudden Move," a film that will premiere as the centerpiece gala at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. (Claudette Barius/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
Steven Soderbergh's 'No Sudden Move' to premiere at Tribeca

By Jake Coyle May. 20, 2021 09:01 AM EDT

Michael Moore says virus prevents film festival for 2nd year

Apr. 30, 2021 04:14 PM EDT
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Traverse City Film Festival is being canceled for the second consecutive year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, president...

This image released by Amazon Studios shows Adam Driver, left, and Marion Cotillard in a scene from "Annette," a film that will open the 74th Cannes Film Festival on July 6. (Amazon via AP)
Leo Carax's 'Annette' to open Cannes Film Festival

By Jake Coyle Apr. 19, 2021 09:48 AM EDT

This image released by Warner Bros. Picures shows director Jon M. Chu, left, and Lin-Manuel Miranda on the set of "In the Heights," which will open the Tribeca Film Festival in June. (Macall Polay/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)
'In the Heights' to open Tribeca Film Festival in June

Apr. 16, 2021 09:18 AM EDT

Venice architecture Biennale opens a year later on May 22

By Colleen Barry Apr. 12, 2021 11:43 AM EDT
MILAN (AP) — A year after being postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Venice Biennale for architecture will open on May 22 for a six-month run under strict...

FILE - People attend an outdoor screening for "The Union" at the opening night gala of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 20, 2011. The Tribeca Film Festival said Monday, March 29, 2021, it plans to hold its 20th edition in-person and with outdoor screenings in June. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
Tribeca plans in-person, outdoor film festival for June

By Jake Coyle Mar. 29, 2021 09:37 AM EDT

FILE - Filmmaker Spike Lee poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Oct. 7, 2015. Lee will be president of the jury for the 74th Cannes Film Festival. Usually held in May, this year's festival has been delayed by the health crisis. It will be held July 6-July 17. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Spike Lee to head Cannes Film Festival jury

By Jake Coyle Mar. 16, 2021 10:56 AM EDT

Megan Turgeon, of the New Hampshire National Guard, carries a tray of syringes loaded with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic set up by the New Hampshire National Guard in the parking lot of Exeter, N.H., High School, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Exeter. The temporary facility, operating out of a field hospital tent, administers both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Program to help New Hampshire renters pay bills

By Kathy Mccormack Feb. 25, 2021 09:10 AM EST

File---File picture taken May 14, 2020. Sophie wears a mouth and nose mask and looks at the exhibition "Traumfabrik, 100 Years of Film in Babelsberg" exhibition in Berlin. Sophie looks at a Berlinale bear and the "Lola". The film festival announced its 15 movies running in this year's competition. (Soeren Stache/dpa via AP,File)
Berlin festival announces this year's competition film slate

By Kirsten Grieshaber Feb. 11, 2021 08:46 AM EST

FILE - Selma Blair arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Feb. 24, 2019. A documentary about Blair, “Introducing, Selma Blair,” a portrait of the actor living with multiple sclerosis, is among the films set to premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival this year. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Doc films about Demi Lovato, Tom Petty headline SXSW 2021

By Lindsey Bahr Feb. 10, 2021 02:00 PM EST

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic speaks and gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Zbanic's latest and the most ambitious film "Quo Vadis, Aida?", based on true events from Bosnia's brutal 1992-95 inter-ethnic war has been many years in the making. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnian director: Movie's human-rights focus resonates now

By Sabina Niksic Feb. 01, 2021 05:45 PM EST

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, Berlinale heads Mariette Rissenbeek, left, and Carlo Chatrian, right, attend the award ceremony of the 2020 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. A six-member jury of former winners has been chosen to allocate the prizes at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which is taking place in a revamped form because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)
Berlin festival chooses 6 former winners as this year's jury

Feb. 01, 2021 07:26 AM EST

Malin Hellberg, sits alone to watch the film Tigrar, in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. The 44th Goteborg film festival opened this weekend in a mostly virtual format. For the real world movie experience, a lottery determines who gets the one ticket for the 700-seat cinema. (AP Photo/Thomas Johansson)
Swedish nurse wins a week of isolation, films amid pandemic

By David Keyton Jan. 31, 2021 09:08 AM EST

Daryl Wein, left, and his wife Zoe Lister-Jones, the co-directors, co-writers and co-producers of "How It Ends," pose together for a portrait to promote the film for the Sundance Film Festival, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Los Angeles. Lister-Jones is also a cast member in the film. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
At Sundance, pandemic dramas unfold on screen and off

By Jake Coyle Jan. 28, 2021 12:01 AM EST

FILE - A scooter drives by the Palais des Festivals at the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 7, 2018. The Cannes Film Festival, canceled altogether last year by the pandemic, is postponing this year’s edition from May to July in hopes of having an in-person festival. Cannes organizers announced Wednesday that this year’s Cannes will now take place July 6-17, about two months after its typical period. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)
Cannes Film Festival, canceled in 2020, is postponed to July

By Jake Coyle Jan. 27, 2021 11:54 AM EST