Raging Grace directed by Paris Zarcilla is the winner of the Grand Jury Award in the Narrative Feature Competition at the 30th SXSW Film & TV Festival. The jury commented, “The story of a Filipina house cleaner and her young daughter confronting Britain’s racial and class divides, Raging Grace is both frank and elusive, a film that subverts expectations on its way to a stirring conclusion.”
Directed by Lauren Greenhall, the erotic thriller Perfectly Good Moment will have its world premiere at the 25th Sarasota Film Festival on March 29, 2023. This psychosexual thriller asks the question: what happens when the things that make your relationship passionate and exciting are the same things that make it toxic?
G.B. Shannon’s Show Business Is My Life (But I Can’t Prove It) won Best Documentary Feature and Mike Cheslik’s Hundreds of Beavers was named Best Narrative Feature at the 2023 Oxford Film Festival.
The Asian premiere of Soi Cheang’s noir thriller, Mad Fate, starring Gordon Lam and Lokman Yeung, and the world premiere of Elegies, Ann Hui’s lyrical documentary portrayal of the topography of contemporary local poetry, will open the 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF47) on March 30, 2023.
Cargo revealed the first look – teaser trailer for Satan Wants You, a documentary on the Satanic Panic of the 1980s ignited by the bestselling book Michelle Remembers.
Focus Features will release Every Body, the documentary on the lives of intersex people from Academy Award nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Julie Cohen (RBG) on June 30, 2023.
Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) announced the initial slate of programming for the milestone 25th anniversary event, taking place across Sarasota March 25 through April 2, 2023. The complementary virtual platform will launch on Friday, March 24 offering exclusive, pre-opening access to select titles.
National Geographic revealed the official trailer for Wild Life, a documentary spotlighting former Patagonia CEO and president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, Kristine Tompkins, on an epic, decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she has dedicated her life to protecting. After falling in love in midlife, Kris and outdoorsman and entrepreneur Doug Tompkins left behind the world of the massively successful outdoor brands they’d helped pioneer — Patagonia, The North Face and Esprit — and turned their attention to a visionary effort to create National Parks throughout Chile and Argentina. Wild Life chronicles their journey to effect the largest private land donation in history.
The 23nd annual Boston Underground Film Festival returns to Harvard Square’s arthouse hub The Brattle Theatre from March 22nd through the 26th, featuring a lineup stacked with “fearsome folk horror, mendacious miscreants, harrowing horrors and hero/es/ines, godless god-complexes, eco-thrillers and chillers, sensational sci-fi, and all manner of midnight madness.”
Ahead of a series of limited theatrical engagements across the US that kicks off this month, Cinedigm debuted the official trailer for Country Gold, Mickey Reece’s country music comedy.
Giant Pictures revealed the official trailer for The Ants & The Grasshopper, the documentary follows farmer Anita Chitaya as she travels from Malawi to California to the White House, to persuade Americans that climate change is real.
Here is the U.S. trailer for Fugue, the Polish thriller, inspired by a true story, about an amnesic struggling to put the pieces of her life back together. Starring in the film are Gabriela Muskała (Alicja/Kinga) and Łukasz Simlat (Krzysztof).