
Kino Lorber will release Carlos Conceição’s Tommy Guns, described as a genre-fluid fantasia that vengefully engages with Angola’s colonial past while evoking the work of Miguel Gomes, Claire Denis, and even M. Night Shyamalan.
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Kino Lorber will release Carlos Conceição’s Tommy Guns, described as a genre-fluid fantasia that vengefully engages with Angola’s colonial past while evoking the work of Miguel Gomes, Claire Denis, and even M. Night Shyamalan.

The French documentary On the Adamant (Sur l’Adamant) by Nicolas Philibert was awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. The film profiles The Adamant, a unique floating day-care centre located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, that services adults suffering from mental disorders.

The winners of the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2022 were announced at the 75th Annual DGA Awards with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert winning the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

All Quiet on the Western Front is the big winner of the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards winning seven BAFTAs including Best Film, Director for Edward Berger; Film Not in the English Language; Adapted Screenplay; Cinematography; Original Score and Sound.

Dread will bring the critically acclaimed horror anthology Satanic Hispanics to over 800 screens across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico in September 2023. The film, which is made up of five segments, is directed by Alejandro Brugues (Juan of the Dead), Gigi Saul Guerrero (Bingo Hell), Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider!), Demián Rugna (Terrified), and Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project), some of the leading Latin filmmakers in the horror genre.

Giant Pictures will release A House Made of Splinters, the 2023 Academy Award®-nominated feature documentary directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont (The Distant Barking of Dogs).

Cinema Guild debuted the official trailer for Sansón and Me (Sansón y yo), the award-winning documentary from Mexican-American director Rodrigo Reyes (499).

Visit Films revealed the first-look trailer for Starring Jerry As Himself, a docu-fiction hybrid on the unique story of Jerry Hsu.

IFC Films unveiled the teaser trailer for Paint, a indie comedy film starring Owen Wilson as a public TV painter. Also starring in the film are Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renee, Lusia Strus, Stephen Root and Lucy Freyer

The Pod Generation directed by Sophie Barthes has been awarded the 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and received a $20,000 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The Prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.

Everything Everywhere All at Once led the winners in the film categories at the 28th Critics Choice Awards hosted by Chelsea Handler, earning five awards including Best Picture, Best Director plus Best Original Screenplay for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan, and Best Editing for Paul Rogers.