Greenwich Entertainment will release Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty’s haunting documentary Love It Was Not in movie theaters starting Friday, November 12. The films looks at the impossible and tragic love story between Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and the Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
Quiver released the trailer for post-apocalyptic action, thriller film The Survivalist starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich opening in theaters and VOD on October 1.
IFC Films released the official trailer for The Nowhere Inn, the psychological thriller film starring Annie Clark, Carrie Brownstein and Dakota Johnson which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Bill Benz, the film opens in theaters on September 17th, 2021.
Christina Zorich and her late mother, the Academy Award winning actress Olympia Dukakis, will receive the Mother/Daughter Women of Excellence Award for their documentary The New Abolitionists at the Richmond International Film Festival.
Toronto International Film Festival announced new additions to the 2021 Official Selection as well as details of its five-day Industry Conference, taking place September 9–13, 2021. Added to the lineup are The Forgiven directed by John Michael McDonagh and the Julia Child documentary titled Julia from Julie Cohen and Betsy West.
Showtime released the trailer for the new documentary film Detainee 001, directed by Emmy®-winner Greg Barker (The Final Year, Sergio, Manhunt, Legion of Brothers). The film unpacks the mysteries surrounding the young American man, John Walker Lindh, found on the battlefield in Afghanistan alongside the people who were supposed to be his enemy. The story reveals how society views the “enemy from within” and the shifting allegiances during the war on terror.
Directed by Rachel Boynton (Big Men, Our Brand is Crisis), the documentary Civil War: (Or, Who Do We Think We Are), looks at how Americans tell the story of their Civil War and its legacy of slavery and racism. The documentary film will open in select theaters nationwide (including the IFC Center in NYC and Laemmle Santa Monica in LA) on Friday, September 17
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival revealed the second wave of their 2021 lineup featuring five more films and five more short film blocks.
Greenwich Entertainment released the official trailer for Savior for Sale: da Vinci’s Lost Masterpiece? the documentary on the mysterious painting titled Salvator Mundi (The Savior of the World).
British actor Sir Michael Caine will be the special guest of the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and receive the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at the opening ceremony.
The documentary Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore, described as “a comprehensive portrait of Ennio Morricone, well-known and beloved all over the world, among the most influential and prolific musicians of the twentieth century, the winner of two Academy Awards® and composer of over 500 unforgettable movie soundtracks” has been added to the line-up, Out of Competition, of the 78th Venice International Film Festival 2021.
