Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s Sundance award-winning documentary The Stroll will open and its Hannes Hirsch’s debut feature Drifter will close the 37th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 15th – 26th, 2023. In addition, Tünde Skovrán’s intimate documentary Who I Am Not will have its UK Premiere as the Centrepiece Presentation Screening.
Quiver debuted the official trailer for Blueback, the Australian eco-drama film starring Mia Wasikowksa, Radha Mitchell, and Eric Bana. In the film, Abby, a child befriends an enormous blue grouper while diving. When Abby realizes that the fish is under threat, she takes inspiration from her activist Mother to take on poachers to save her friend.
Momentum Pictures revealed the official trailer for Palm Trees and Power Lines, coming-of-age film starring Jonathan Tucker, Gretchen Mol and Lily McInerny as a disconnected teenage girl who falls into a relationship with a man twice her age.
The world premiere of All India Rank by Varun Grover brought the 52nd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to a close with Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot winning the Audience Award. The feature debut by Belgian writer and filmmaker Emmanuelle Nicot portrays the journey of a girl at the cusp of teenager-hood, Dalva, who must learn how to be a child again, after she’s been taken away from her abusive father Jacques.
Tár is the top winner at the 43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, winning three major awards including Film of the Year, Director for Todd Field and Cate Blanchett was named Actress of the Year. This is the third time Blanchett has won this award, after Elizabeth in 1998 and Blue Jasmine in 2013.
Emmy® Award-winning director Salima Koroma (CNN Films’ Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street) takes audiences on the rocket-like rise and sudden implosion of the once-ubiquitous mobile game show, HQ Trivia in the documentary Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia premiering on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 9:00pm ET/PT on CNN.
Le spectre de Boko Haram by Cyrielle Raingou (Cameroon, France) wins the Tiger Award at the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). In her debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of children as they carve out their own worlds amid the dangers of armed conflict. We meet the precocious Falta, studious and hardworking, eager to process her father’s death in a terrorist attack. Her classmate, Ibrahim, and his older brother Mohamad struggle with balancing their boyhood energy and a traumatic past that strays them from their eight and 11-year-old innocence.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the dates for AFI FEST 2023.
Hulu debuted the official trailer for Bruiser, an indie drama film starring Trevante Rhodes, Shamier Anderson, Jalyn Hall and Shinelle Azoroh.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim star in The Covenant, the action-thriller film directed by Guy Ritchie. Also starring in the film are Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, Emily Beecham, and Jonny Lee Miller
Roadside Attractions revealed the official trailer for My Happy Ending, the comedy based on the Israeli play, Sof Tov, starring Andie MacDowell, Miriam Margolyes, Sally Phillips, Rakhee Thakrar, Tom Cullen, Michell Greenidge, Tamsin Greig, and David Walliams.
Sony Pictures Classics will release Carmen, a complete reimagining of George Bizet’s opera and Prosper Mérimée’s novella of the same name, starring Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal, Rossy de Palma, The D.O.C., Benedict Hardie, Richard Brancatisano, and Elsa Pataky.