Two new gay and lesbian films – Rebel Dykes, a brilliant and refreshing documentary history of UK post-punk dyke culture in 1980’s London; and Firebird, a sweeping love story about freedom and love against all odds set in the Soviet Air Force at the height of the Cold War will world premiere at BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival.
The 2021 Human Rights Watch Film Festival celebrates 25 years with a full digital edition featuring 10 powerful and uplifting new documentaries available to stream across the UK on Barbican Cinema On Demand from March 18-26, 2021.
The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) announce the 14 films in Official Competition to be spotlighted at the virtual 6th edition of the festival taking place March 10 – 15, 2021. All films are Asian Oscar® and/or Golden Globe® submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture Foreign Language, respectively.
Academy Award-nominated actor Bill Murray will receive the prestigious Maltin Modern Master Award at the 36th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Murray will be honored on Friday, April 2nd for his long-standing contributions to the film industry, most recently in the role of Felix Keane in Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks opposite Rashida Jones and Marlon Wayans, for which he received Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice nominations. Leonard Maltin will return for his 30th year to moderate the evening.
Oxford Film Festival announced the lineup of official selections for the 18th annual edition of the festival which will be a hybrid presentation including an open-air outdoor theater, drive-ins, and a full month of virtual screenings from March 24-28, and April 1-30.
Due to the local COVID-19 regulations, Filmfest Dresden has postponed the upcoming 33rd edition from April to the new date of July 13 to 18, 2021
In honor of Academy Award and BAFTA winning actress Cloris Leachman, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 94, BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival will screen Leachman’s final starring role “Jump, Darling” in the Bodies strand. BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival runs digitally from the March 17th- 28th, 2021.
The fantasy animation horror film The Spine of Night from directors Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King will world premiere as part of the SXSW Midnighters section, taking place virtually next month. NY/LA-based arthouse genre sales company Yellow Veil Pictures have acquired world sales rights on the film.
UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center announce the complete lineup for the 26th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the annual festival that showcases contemporary French filmmaking, scheduled for March 4-14 in the FLC Virtual Cinema.
Broadcast Signal Intrusion, a conspiracy thriller directed by Jacob Gentry, will have its world premiere at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.
The 27th Annual San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (March 9-14) will open with Philippe Falardeau’s drama My Salinger Year, starring Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver; and the local photographer Brittany App’s environmental documentary Where There Once Was Water will celebrate its US premiere as the Closing Night film.
Without Getting Killed or Caught, is a remarkable documentary film about the mythical, complicated relationship between legendary songwriters Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt, and the art it inspired