Get the first look at Sirens, directed by LA-based filmmaker Rita Baghdadi, set to World Premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Executive produced by Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph (Animal Pictures), among others, Sirens follows the Middle East’s first all-female metal band as they wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars. The film will be shown as part of the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Berlin International Film Festival 2022 revealed films in the two competition program Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus featuring 24 feature-length films and 28 short films. The focus of the overall Generation selection is on young people: how they perceive the world, how they appropriate it or how they oppose it.
The first international trailer debuted via Variety for Speak No Evil, the Danish horror film which is set to world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Christian Tafdrup, the film stars Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt, Karina Smulders, Liva Forsberg, and Marius Damslev.
Following up on the big announcement to continue as an in-person festival, Berlin International Film Festival 2022 revealed films in the Berlinale Shorts, Forum, Forum Expanded, Perspektive and Deutsches Kino programs.
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival announced the Beyond Film lineup produced by the Festival, all of which are free to the public. These thought provoking and entertaining talks and events will include three conversation series (Power of Story, Cinema Cafe, and The Big Conversation) and more. The Festival takes place from January 20 – 30, 2022 on an enhanced online platform at Festival and in person at seven Satellite Screens venues around the country during the Festival’s second weekend.
Berlin International Film Festival announced that the 2022 festival will now take place as an in-person 2G-plus event (additional masking and testing requirement) citing recent decisions by the Federal Government and the Berlin Senate.
Two world premiere feature films – The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales directed by Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes and Phoenix Rising directed by Amy Berg have been added to the Special Screenings section of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
The world premiere of Peter von Kant by writer/director François Ozon will open the 72nd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival. The film which stars Denis Menochet, Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla is part of the international Competition and will celebrate its world premiere on February 10, 2022, at the Berlinale Palast.
The 7th edition of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival (FGBFF), Berlin’s premier showcase of horror films made by women* and non-binary filmmakers returns for their full program of feature films, short blocks, talks by international horror specialists, and a retro screening. In addition to the live in-person line-up, FGBFF, running February 3 – 6th, 2022, will offer most of their short film programs online for worldwide on-demand access during the festival.
The Beaufort Film Society announced the Official Selections for the 2022 Beaufort International Film Festival (BIFF), which takes place Feb. 22-27, 2022 in Beaufort, S.C. The 2022 edition will feature 10 World Premieres and an additional 42 films that will make their South Carolina debuts.
Dance Films Association and Film at Lincoln Center announced today the complete lineup for the 50th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival, running February 11-14, 2022. The 50th Dance on Camera Festival will be presented in person at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, marking the festival’s return to fully in-person programming. The longest-running dance film festival in the world received submissions from more than 37 countries, and it will feature nine ticketed programs and over 32 films during the four-day festival.
Netflix released the official teaser for “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy”, the Kanye West documentary, over twenty years in the making from directors Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah.