
Focus Features shared three official clips from Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, the sc-fi comedy drama set in a fictional American desert town circa 1955.
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Focus Features shared three official clips from Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, the sc-fi comedy drama set in a fictional American desert town circa 1955.

Michelle Costabile and Jacopo Costantini are two men who are in love, but face constant harassment by neo-Nazi skinheads, in The Neighbor, the Italian LGBTQ+ drama film from filmmaker Pasquale Marrazzo. Also starring in the movie are Luisa Vernelli, Lucia Vasini, Rossana Gay, and Antonio Rosti.

The award-winning MTV Documentary Film Afghan Dreamers directed by David Greenwald, and executive produced by Sheila Nevins along with Ellen Goosenberg Kent, will launch on Paramount+ streaming service on Tuesday, May 23rd.

The Traverse City Film Festival, founded by Michael Moore, has come to a close after nearly 20 years. The TCFF board made the decision to end the era of the festival on a high note, with Moore noting that the festival is ending while it is still ahead and no longer in debt. This brings an end to a beloved film festival that has been appreciated by many over the years.

The Czech-Slovak short film Asteríon from Francesco Montagner was awarded the Golden Horseman Best Short Film, in addition to receiving a special mention from the Youth Jury in the International Competition at the 35th Filmfest Dresden international short film festival.

Teona Strugar Mitevska’s The Happiest Man in the World captured the BHFF 2023 Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 19th annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) in New York City Golden Apple Awards ceremony. Jelena Kordić Kuret was awarded the Jury Award for Best Acting Performance for her role as Asja in the film.

Co-directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West, the documentary Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting is a comprehensive examination of the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find demeaning and offensive.

Burning Days directed by Emin Alper won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature at the 26th annual Sonoma International Film Festival which ran March 22-26, 2023. The Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature went to The Grab by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.

Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films acquired the documentary film Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, an illuminating deep dive into the production of John Schlesinger’s film by acclaimed documentarian Nancy Buirski (The Loving Story, The Rape of Recy Taylor).