July 18, 2023 By Michael Dorgan
A popular 10-day festival will return to Forest Hills next month with a lineup of more than 100 films.
The event, called Festival of Cinema NYC, kicks off on Aug. 4 at the Regal UA Midway and will feature independent movies from around the world at the theater through Aug. 13.
The festival will screen movies, documentaries, short films and animations. Several world premieres are among the dozens of independent films that will be shown at the decades-old movie theater, located at 108-22 Queens Blvd.
Cinema lovers can look forward to movies from Turkey, Spain, Denmark, The Philippines, Germany, and many other nations. Many of the filmmakers are expected to attend the festival, according to organizers.
Jayson Simba, the founder and executive director of Festival of Cinema NYC said that this year’s festival aims to enhance the connection between the filmmaker and the audience.
He said this will be achieved via the hosting of seminars, panels, special guest speakers, and Q&A sessions at the Queens Library at Forest Hills, located at 108-19 71st Ave. All of the events at the library will be free to attend.
“It always begins and ends with great films, but it becomes special by highlighting why we love to come to the movie theater and the artistic accomplishments of our filmmakers.”
The festival, now in its seventh year, will kick off with the screening of “Paris is in Harlem,” a drama directed by Christina Kallas that follows several characters through separate but intertwined storylines on the eve of New York City’s controversial “Cabaret Law” being repealed in 2017.
A shooting at a historic jazz bar in Harlem occurs, changing their lives forever. The Cabaret Law prohibited dancing in all spaces open to the public that sold food and/or drink with the exception of those who obtain a cabaret license.
World premieres to be screened at the…
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