Music Box Films revealed the official trailer for Golden Years (Die Goldenen Jahre), the Swiss comedy film follows a newly retired couple embarking on a cruise where things don’t go as planned, and they are forced to develop new ways to spend their golden years.
Kino Lorber will release On the Adamant (Sur l’Adamant), the award-winning documentary from master documentarian Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf) takes viewers aboard the floating structure L’Adamant Day Center, on the Seine river in Paris, that offers daycare for adults with mental disorders.
Samuel Goldwyn Films debuted the official trailer for the In the Land of Saints and Sinners, the action thriller set in 1970s Ireland, starring Liam Neeson as an ex-assassin leading a peaceful life, but as usual, the ghosts of his violent past refuse to stay buried, as he now finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful IRA terrorists.
Rei the directorial debut of Japanese filmmaker Tanaka Toshihiko won the Tiger Award at the 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The drama follows thirtysomething Matsushita Hikari who on a trip into the mountains of Hokkaido encounters a Deaf landscape photographer, Masato, who takes her on a journey that will transform her sense of being and connectedness with the world.
Fresh from its world premiere at Sundance, Amrou Al-Kadhi’s debut feature film Layla will make its European Premiere as the opening film of the 38th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 13th – 24th, 2024.
Paul Giamatti will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his moving portrayal of curmudgeonly prep school teacher Paul Hunham in Focus Features’ The Holdovers.
Inheritance by husband and wife filmmaking team Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing won the Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Documentary Feature last night at the film festival’s 30th annual film festival.
Colman Domingo leads the nominations across the motion picture categories for the 55th NAACP Image Awards with three nominations. Domingo is nominated for Entertainer of the Year, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for Rustin, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for The Color Purple.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the film festival showcasing contemporary French cinema, returns to Film at Lincoln Center in New York City for its 29th edition, from February 29 through March 10, 2024.
A Night of Horror International Film Festival revealed its first programming wave for the festival’s 16th edition – and first in the US – screening from March 1-3, 2024 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Long known as Australia’s premier genre film event, the festival now takes place in the United States.
A Different Man by Aaron Schimberg, Dahomey by Mati Diop, and Suspended Time by Olivier Assayas are among the 20 films that will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
The world premiere of Small Things Like These, directed by Tim Mielants will open the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2024. Starring in the film are Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson. Small Things Like These will screen in Competition.