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Ahead of the World Premiere at True/False Film Fest 2025, here is the first look clip from Eleanor Mortimer’s How Deep is Your Love, a documentary following biologists as they race ahead of looming deep-sea mining to collect and name the undiscovered species.
Vertical revealed the official trailer for Sacramento, the road-trip comedy film starring Michael Cera and Michael Angarano as friends taking an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento.
The 31st Slamdance Film Festival announced the winners of their Sparky Awards, with Gamma Rays directed by Henry Bernadet winning the Narrative Feature Grand Jury prize and American Theater directed by Nicholas Clark and Dylan Frederick won the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize.
A Night of Horror International Film Festival returns for its 17th edition next week from March 6-9, 2025, at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Young filmmakers aged 16-25 took home prizes at the BFI Future Film Festival Awards 2025, with Eve Grant winning Best New Talent and Best Writer for Heavy, Andrea Adame and Paula Trejo Espado won Best Film and Best International Film for Red Lace, and Shane Chung won Best Director and International Special Mention for Check Please.
The 9th annual MidWest WeirdFest taking place March 6-9, 2025 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin unveiled the lineup including the world premiere of twisting, neo-noir thriller Anywhere.
The Norwegian queer coming-of-age drama Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) by Dag Johan Haugerud has won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The film, starring Ella Øverbye as Johanne and Selome Emnetu as French teacher, depicts Johanne’s intimate writings about her crush on her female teacher. It is the third part of a trilogy by Haugerud that deals with the complexity of human relationships, sexuality and social norms. The film also won the award for Competition in Prizes of the FIPRESCI Jury and the Guild Film Prize.
Deaf (Sorda) by Eva Libertad has won the 27th Panorama Audience Award for best feature film, and The Moelln Letters (Die Möllner Briefe) by Martina Priessner wins in the category Panorama Dokumente at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
The Paper Bag Plan directed by Anthony Lucero has won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Among Neighbors directed by Yoav Potash won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 27th anniversary edition of San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF IndieFest). The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos directed by The Agbajowo Collective won the Audience Award for Best International Feature
The 17th ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York (RFFNY) celebrating the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with disabilities worldwide, returns April 3-9, 2025.
Samuel Goldwyn Films debuted the official trailer for William Tell, Nick Hamm’s resistance epic medieval action-drama film starring Claes Bang (The Square, Dracula), Connor Swindells (Barbie, Sex Education, Emma), Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson, Extraction), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid, The Tattooist of Auschwitz), Ellie Bamber (Moss & Freud, Nocturnal Animals), Rafe Spall (Life of Pi, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Big Short) and Emily Beecham (The Interpreter, Little Joe), with Academy-Award winner Ben Kingsley and Academy-Award nominee Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Game of Thrones, The Age of Innocence, The Wife).
