Starwalker, the dramatic musical feature film from award-winning Indigenous writer, director and composer Corey Payette (Les Filles du Roi) will have its world premiere at the 35th edition of the Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival on May 23, 2025. The film, which screens on the festival’s opening night, was adapted from a musical production of the same name.
Ed Begley Jr. (A Mighty Wind, Pineapple Express), Dot-Marie Jones (“Glee”), Patty Guggenheim (She Hulk: Attorney At Law, “Twisted Metal”), Kiel Kennedy (The Binge 2), and Kenneth Mosley (“Will Trent”) star in Don’t Tell Larry, the dark office comedy film that follows an ambitious corporate flunky who faces a deadly fallout after telling a white lie to her eccentric new co-worker Larry.
Set in 1940s Australia, The New Boy stars Cate Blanchett as as a nun overseeing a remote Christian orphanage and introduces Aswan Reid as the titular New Boy, a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan with mysterious powers. The ensemble cast also includes Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair, alongside a group of young First Nations actors making their film debuts.
In the South Korean thriller film The Old Woman with the Knife, director Min Kyu-dong brings to life author Gu Byeong-mo’s (Apartment Women, a New York Times Editors’ Choice) acclaimed novel of the same name, reframed through a distinctly female perspective.
The 78th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) set to run from 14-20 August 2025 will open with the UK premiere of Eva Victor’s comedy-drama film Sorry, Baby.
Neon debuted the official trailer for Together, the supernatural body horror film starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie as Tim and Millie, a pair seeking solace in the countryside to rekindle their strained relationship. Their retreat takes a sinister turn when they are attacked by a supernatural force.
In the horror thriller film The Sound, directed and written by Brendan Devane, best known for his recent horror film The Canyonlands, a world-class group of climbers is granted access to the Forbidden Wall, a mysterious rock wall previously closed for decades.
A24 revealed the first look – teaser trailer for Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee’s neo-noir crime thriller starring Denzel Washington. The film reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic High and Low, which itself loosely based on the 1959 novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain; and transplants it into the modern music industry.
Set to world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, Lionsgate revealed the official trailer for Everything’s Going to Be Great, the comedy-drama film starring Allison Janney, Bryan Cranston, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Jack Champion, Simon Rex, and Chris Cooper.
California Film Institute’s DocPitch 2025 has selected five documentary projects currently in development or post-production as the winners of a total of $100,000 in funding. Black Public Media (BPM) selected a documentary about caregiving with comedy and two science fiction immersive projects for a total of $225,000 in production and development funding at the 2025 PitchBLACK Awards.
