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Here is the new trailer for Invention, a hybrid film of of metafiction and archival footage from filmmakers Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens, making its US Premiere this weekend at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies and East Coast Premiere at New Directors/New Films.
The 41st Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) taking place from May 1 to May 7, 2025 will open with the world premiere of Surrender, Jess Dang’s feature directorial debut, starring Andrea Bang and Keiko Agena. Also screening on opening night May 1 is the world premiere of the short documentary, Māhū: A Trans-Pacific Love Story. Directed by Lisette Marie Flanary, the film explores the Native Hawaiian concept of gender fluidity as it follows an innovative theater production by Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne.
Wild Goat Surf, the debut feature film from director, writer, and actor Caitlyn Sponheimer (The Boys) starring Shayelin Martin (American Gods) as Goat, Leandro Guedes (A Million Little Things), Caitlyn Sponheimer (Transplant), and Dyllón Burnside (Pose, Thoughts of a Colored Man) will premiere at Look Dine-In Cinemas across the US starting on April 4, 2025. Sponheimer and members of the cast and crew will be at select screenings in Los Angeles, New York, and Virginia for post-screening Q&As.
The Puerto Rican ecofeminist drama The Fishbowl (La Pecera) from artist Glorimar Marrero Sánchez is expanding to additional U.S. theaters across the New York tri-state area, Philadelphia, Florida, and other cities this Friday, April 4, following a strong theatrical release debut.
Luca Guadagnino’s Italian romantic drama I Am Love (Io sono l’amore) starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton (The End, Suspiria, We Need To Talk About Kevin) will be re-released on digital in the UK from 14th April, 2025 via Vertigo Releasing.
The 21st edition of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) in New York City, taking place from Wednesday, April 23rd through Saturday, April 26th at the SVA Theatre in New York City, will feature a lineup of twelve films in the official competition program.
