Kumail Nanjiani and Daveed Diggs at HIFF25 in 2017

Past Audience Award winners include Academy Award®-winning THE WHITE HELMETS, LA LA LAND, ROOM, THE IMITATION GAME, THE ARTIST, THE KING’S SPEECH and Academy Award®-nominated I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO and PHILOMENA. With cash prizes handed out totaling more than $130,000, HIFF continues to attract some of the best films of the year. The Festival also features four signature programs: Films of Conflict & Resolution Compassion, Justice & Animal Rights Air, Land & Sea and Views From Long Island. HIFF30 was pleased to screen the following films in 2022: LIVING (East Coast Premiere), THE WHALE (East Coast Premiere), THE SON (East Coast Premiere), WOMEN TALKING, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, SHE SAID, ALL THAT BREATHES, EO, AFTERSUN, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, and ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, and many more.Īn Academy Award-qualifying festival, HIFF hosts multiple competitions focused specifically on early-career filmmakers, in the hopes of bolstering their work at an important juncture and helping develop a discussion around their films, both within the film community and beyond.

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