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VARIETY PARTNERSHIP + GEMS 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT!  BIG NEWS! The Worst Person In The World will screen at GEMS 2021 First of all, we announced yesterday a renewal of our partnership with VARIETY to present the 2022 International Feature Film Nominees Roundtable at our 39th edition, March 4 – 13, 2022, featuring next year’s five Oscar nominated […]

TOWER TALKS Following our sold-out Miami premiere of “My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell it To”, director Jonathan Cuartas and DP Michael Cuartas, will once again join us at Tower Theater Miami for our very first TOWER TALKS event! A new series led by a different guest programmer each month. Jonathan and Michael will lead a discussion […]

If the subconscious draw of the horror genre is that it forces us to face our mortality, perhaps few films have taken that concept to more literal effect than Old. M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, about a beach that mysteriously makes its inhabitants age in rapid fashion, goes from campy and comical to terrifying and […]

Screening German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s Hitchcockian thriller Phoenix at the 2015 Miami Film Festival – followed by a hugely popular run at the Tower Theater Miami later that summer – is one of my biggest highlights of the past decade in film. I’ll never forget sitting at the back of the auditorium for that stunning […]

Maestro Pedro Almodóvar with his Miami Film Festival 2021 Precious Gem Master Award. We’re so happy to have had Almodóvar join us virtually at this year’s Festival to accept the award and introduce the Miami premiere of his first English-language film, the live-action short The Human Voice. ⠀ Over the years, we have presented numerous […]

It was a huge night for Denmark with Thomas Vinterberg’s ANOTHER ROUND taking home the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, the film follows four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home, they embark on an audacious experiment from an obscure philosopher: […]

We may have closed out the 38th edition of Miami Film Festival yesterday, but we’re still celebrating our 2021 lineup in a big way. Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and we’re so proud to have six Festival winners being recognized at this year’s Academy Awards! Sound of Metal – which tied for our Audience […]

⠀ Stories that span two hemispheres – from the culture shock of a Cuban ballet dancer who relocates to Florida, to the wartime plight of a UN translator in Bosnia and Herzegovina – have earned top prizes at the 38th edition of Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Film Festival. Presented in a hybrid format this year, with […]

⠀ ⠀ Are you planning to participate in the 2021 Miami Film Festival (March 5 through 14) virtually? Do you have Apple TV or an HDMI-enabled TV? Then you can experience our online screenings, Q&A’s, and Master Classes on your television set using the Miami Film Festival app or HDMI cables! It is important to […]