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[vc_empty_space height=”15px”] 11th Annual Key West Film Festival Announces Official Lineup
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“GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY” starring Daniel Craig screens as Opening Night film
“WOMEN TALKING” starring Frances McDormand screens as Closing Night film
Spotlight Films to include “WHITE NOISE” starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle and “THE INSPECTION”
Erin Lee Carr to be honored with Golden Key for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking
The 11th Annual Key West Film Festival announces its official 2022 lineup including major fall films from Rian Johnson, Sarah Polley, Noah Baumbach, Ethan Coen, Hirokazu Kore-ada, Luka Dhont, Ondi Timoner and Billy Corben. More than 75 films will be shown during the 5-day festival, which runs November 16th-20th.
To open the festival, Daniel Craig returns in GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MURDER MYSTERY , from the surprise 2019 hit Knives Out, reprising his role as detective Benoit Blanc, heading off to Greece with a new case to crack and a fresh ensemble of suspects to rattle (Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Kate Hudson).
In the closing night feature WOMEN TALKING , Sarah Polley directs one of the greatest ensembles of women ever assembled. Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley star as women in an isolated religious colony struggling to reconcile with their faith after a series of sexual assaults.
Other spotlight films include WHITE NOISE , the latest film from Noah Baumbach, whose last film Marriage Story played at KWFF 2019. The film, which opened the New York Film Festival, stars Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle and Adam Driver as a middle-aged academic Jack whose already askew suburban family life is disrupted by a mysterious “airborne toxic event.”
The star-studded spotlight films will be joined by the previously announced 20 th Anniversary screening of the seminal Florida film ADAPTATION , which will feature screen legend Chris Cooper being honored in person with the prestigious Golden Key Award. Rounding out the Spotlight titles is the also previously announced THE INSPECTION, for which director Elegance Bratton will be presented the Golden Key for Breakthrough D irector as his film draws on his own perspective of homophobia in the armed forces to frame the experience of a newly enlisted Marine (Jeremy Pope) going through boot camp on Parris Island, S.C.
It was also announced that Erin Lee Carr will be honored with the Golden Key for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking . Ms. Carr will attend the festival and participate in a discussion of her body of work with Alissa Wilkinson of Vox.com. Erin Lee Carr is a two-time Emmy nominated producer, director, executive producer, and writer. Her work is known for exploring criminal justice, femininity, and virality. Most recently, she directed the two part docuseries for HBO Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall . In 2021, she directed Britney Vs Spears , which premiered on Netflix in September, 2021 and was the #1 most- watched film on the platform in 25 countries. Her break-out film was Mommy Dead And Dearest , which premiered at the SXSW and Hot Docs Film Festival in 2017. Currently, Erin is working with HBO on a forthcoming docuseries and documentary feature.
This year’s LGBTQ films, programmed with the assistance of Eugene Hernandez, the newly named Executive Director of the Sundance Film Festival, and Brian Brooks of Cinetic Media, include Belgium’s official entry to the Academy Awards, CLOSE directed by Lukas Dhont; ALL MAN: THE INTERNATIONAL MALE STORY, recounting the story of the famous Mens’ catalog “International Male”; the steamy Israeli swimming thriller THE SWIMMER; and FINDING HER BEAT, which follows a group of Asian women redefining gender roles after being locked out of the world of Taiko drumming. The film is produced by longtime Key West winter visitor, Keri Pickett.
