We have exciting news for those of you in Turkey: WHEN GOD SLEEPS will screen at the !f istanbul Independent Film Festival on February 21, 22, and 24. !f Istanbul, now in its 17th year, is a unique film festival that aims to highlight both independent filmmaking and the pertinent issues affecting societies around the world. "Dedicated to [...]
Calling our neighbors to the north: WHEN GOD SLEEPS is screening at the Victoria Film Festival on February 11, so mark your calendars if you're in the Victoria, BC area. Tickets and details are available here. This is the film's first screening in Canada, so we're especially looking forward to it. It's about time we take this [...]
We have another exciting premiere to announce, this time in Italy! WHEN GOD SLEEPS is playing at SEEYOUSOUND International Music Film Festival on January 28 and February 3. SEEYOUSOUND is the first music film festival in Italy and WGS will play in the "Long Play - Doc" category. Check out our festival page for screening [...]
WHEN GOD SLEEPS will screen at the Göteborg Film Festival starting this Friday, 26 January. Göteborg is the largest film festival in the Nordic countries and will be offering up a staggering selection of Swedish and international films at this year's event. Tickets and information about the WHEN GOD SLEEPS screenings are available here. Come join [...]
We're bringing WHEN GOD SLEEPS to The Bahamas! Join us in Nassau on January 25 for our Bahamian premiere at The Island House Film Festival. The festival will be hosted at The Island House, a gorgeous hotel and gathering space for both local and international artists. Check out the festival website for more details, and [...]
We're thrilled to announce that WHEN GOD SLEEPS will have its US broadcast television premiere on this season of Independent Lens on PBS! Our film is scheduled to air on April 2, 2018, at 10:00 PM EST, but check your local PBS listings for any updates as we get closer to the broadcast date. This [...]
We're thrilled to share that WHEN GOD SLEEPS has been shortlisted for a German Academy Award (Deutscher Filmpreis)! You can see the full documentary shortlist here. Huge congratulations and thank you to the entire team, including our partners at WDR, Catapult Film Fund, Fork Films, ITVS, Motto Pictures and Roco Docs!
This just in! WHEN GOD SLEEPS won the Jury Competition Award at the Sound Unseen Film Festival! We're thrilled to receive this honor, and wish to extend a heartfelt thank you to the folks at SU18 and to everyone who came to see the film in Minneapolis. It was great to share the film with such a passionate [...]
WHEN GOD SLEEPS will screen at the 2017 IDFA Film Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands! We will have four screenings: November 16, 22, 23 and 24. The screening on November 24 will be followed by a special live musical performance by Shahin Najafi, so you definitely don't want to miss it! Tickets are available now [...]
Minneapolis friends, WHEN GOD SLEEPS is screening at the Sound Unseen Film Festival on November 9th! This is Sound Unseen's 18th annual "films-on-music" festival, and we're proud to take part in this unique event that will include, "[d]ocumentaries, rare concert footage, short films, animation, music videos, special performances, gallery exhibitions and dozens of live music [...]
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