IFC Films revealed the official trailer for The Almond and the Seahorse, the poignant, and moving drama, based on the play by Kaite O’Reilly, starring Rebel Wilson, Celyn Jones, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Meera Syal, and Trine Dyrholm. In the film, Rebel Wilson stars as an archaeologist and Charlotte Gainsbourg as an architect fighting to re-imagine a future after a traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love.
The Coronado Island Film Festival taking place November 10-13, 2022 in the seaside village of Coronado, California, opens this week with Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light as the Opening Night selection, Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection is the Centerpiece selection, and Maria Schrader’s She Said taking the Closing Night spot, along with CIFF’s traditional screening of Billy Wilder’s classic Some Like it Hot.
For the first time on camera, since her culture-defining trial and acquittal 11 years ago, Casey Anthony sits down to share her side of the story in Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies, a 3-part documentary series event premiering Tuesday, November 29 on Peacock.
The European Film Academy revealed the nominees of the main categories of the 35th European Film Awards. Films nominated for European Film include Alcarràs directed by Carla Simón, Close directed by Lukas Dhont, Corsage directed by Marie Kreutzer, Holy Spider directed by Ali Abbasi, and Triangle of Sadness directed by Ruben Östlund.
The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) celebrates its 30th anniversary from November 25 to December 11, 2022 with 89 narratives and documentaries from 44 countries to be presented in seven different venues in Manhattan.
Ana Dumitrașcu stars as a woman struggling to remain loyal to her boyfriend while in rehab in the Romanian drama Immaculate (Imaculat), directed by Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemar, which was selected as Romania’s Official Submission for International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards®.
Our Movie (Nuestra película), the powerful debut feature film by acclaimed producer Diana Bustamante (Memoria), will have its international premiere in the Kaleidoscope Competition at the 13th hybrid edition of DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, taking place November 9–27.
Netflix revealed the first look teaser trailer for Capturing the Killer Nurse, the companion documentary to The Good Nurse, based on the best-selling book written by Charles Graeber on Charlie Cullen, a serial killers, with a body count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical facilities in the Northeast.
Vertical debuted the official trailer for Broadway Rising, the documentary chronicles the Broadway community’s harrowing and inspiring journey back to the stage following the COVID-19 shutdown on March 12, 2020.
Walad Min Al Janna directed by Tarik Saleh took home the NDR narrative film prize as well as the Interfilm Church Prize trophy, at the 64th Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Nordische Filmtage Lübeck). The jury commented, “The jury of the NDR film prize awards a film with an impeccable script and breathtaking acting. This simple yet complex moral thriller is a tale of power and corruption that is highly relevant today, as no one has the choice to stay away from the political, religious and social issues of our time. The setting of the story is unique, the twists and turns are nothing but amazing. This is what a modern Nordic film looks like today: congratulations to Tarik Saleh and Boy from Heaven.”
Netflix debuted the official trailer for The Swimmers, the drama based on the true story of teenage Olympian refugee, Yusra Mardini, who, with her sister Sara, dragged a dinghy of refugees to safety across the Aegean Sea. The film stars Manal Issa, Nathalie Issa, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ahmed Malek, Ali Suliman, Kinda Alloush, James Krishna Floyd and Elmi Rashid Elmi.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for I Am Vanessa Guillen, the documentary tells the story of Vanessa Guillen, who was 20 years old when she was found murdered at a US Army base. Rather than submit to silence, her family fought for justice and change.