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Fall Festivals

Sales Out of the 2025 Fall Festivals: Alan Ritchson Action Thriller ‘Motor City’ Acquired by RLJE Films

Potsy Ponciroli directed the dialogue-free film also starring Shailene Woodley, Pablo Schreiber, and Ben Foster.

Sundance is gearing up for a revamped 2027 Sundance Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

Thompson on Hollywood

Note to Film Festivals: Why Smaller Is Better

A first trip to Middleburg, Virginia, inspired nostalgia for small festivals past and suggestions for Sundance's future.

TELLURIDE, COLORADO - AUGUST 30: Jesse Plemons (L) and Emma Stone attend 2025 Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2025 in Telluride, Colorado. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

Thompson on Hollywood

Jesse Plemons vs. Emma Stone in ‘Bugonia’ Is Sheer Joy

He plays a conspiracy activist and beekeeper who kidnaps a Big Pharma executive (Emma Stone), convinced she is about to destroy the earth. He tells IndieWire about a story that "exploded" even on the page.

TELLURIDE, COLORADO - AUGUST 31: Ethan Hawke attends the 2025 Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2025 in Telluride, Colorado. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

Thompson on Hollywood

Ethan Hawke Keeps Getting Better, as Music Enriches His Art

The multi-hyphenate delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in Berlin prize-winner "Blue Moon" and also debuted at Telluride his documentary sales title "Highway 99: A Double Album," about Merle Haggard. He tells IndieWire how he keeps things moving.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 02: (L-R) Paul Mescal, Oliver Hermanus and Josh O'Connor attend "The History Of Sound" New York Premiere at Walter Reade Theater on September 02, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Thompson on Hollywood

Josh O’Connor on the Challenge of a U.S. Accent: ‘It’s Difficult for Me to Move My Mouth in the Way That It’s Supposed to’

You'd never know it. With four movies opening in quick succession: Cannes entries "The History of Sound" and "The Mastermind," "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery," and Sundance's "Rebuilding," the actor sat down with IndieWire.

4238_D045_00238_R Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

Fall Festivals

The 15 Best New Films That Premiered at the Fall Festivals

From awards contenders to a shocking horror debut, chilling documentaries, standout performances, and at least one very special stork, this season's crop of festival premieres offer sterling reminders how very good the movies can be.

Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee

Somebody, Do Something

Memo to Distributors: Buy These 2025 Fall Festival Movies

From "The Testament of Ann Lee" to "The Voice of Hind Rajab," here are 11 great fall festival movies looking for a stateside home.

In Review

The Movies Are Meeting the Moment, but Distributors Are Still Scared of Palestine (and Three Other Lessons We Learned from the Fall Fests)

"Hamnet" delivers, "Frankenstein" stumbles, and "The Testament of Ann Lee" points the way forward.

Screen Talk

Venice vs. Telluride: Screen Talk Picks the Best and Worst of the Fall Fests So Far

The "Screen Talk" co-hosts break down the highs and lows of the fall festival circuit, from standout films to surprising misfires.

Telluride

‘Man on the Run’ Review: Full of Never-Before-Seen Footage, Morgan Neville’s Paul McCartney Doc Is Definitive but Lacks Edge

Telluride: The prolific documentarian sat down with McCartney seven times and spent four years digging through an immense archive for ‘Man on the Run.’

Thompson on Hollywood

For ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Star Zoey Deutch, It’s an Obvious Connection Between Jean-Luc Godard and Richard Linklater

At the Telluride Film Festival, the actress told IndieWire why she believes the French New Wave icon would approve of Linklater's loving black-and-white homage to the making of his "Breathless."