‘Pavements’ Alex Ross Perry’s Hybrid Biopic Documentary Makes its US theatrical premiere on Friday, May 2




The Puerto Rican ecofeminist drama The Fishbowl (La Pecera) from artist Glorimar Marrero Sánchez is expanding to additional U.S. theaters across the New York tri-state area, Philadelphia, Florida, and other cities this Friday, April 4, following a strong theatrical release debut.

Desert of Namibia by Japanese director Yoko Yamanaka made its world premiere at the 2024 Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival where Yamanaka became the youngest female director to win the FIPRESCI award.


Set against the backdrop of the early 2000s music scene, the lesbian pop musical satire film Queens of Drama (Les reines du drame), directed by Alexis Langlois, stars Louiza Aura, Gio Ventura, Bilal Hassani (France’s Eurovision Song Contest 2019 singer), Alma Jodorowsky (Blue Is the Warmest Colour), Nana Benamer (Langlois’ shorts The Demons of Dorothy and Terror, Sisters!), Asia Argento (XXX, Land of the Dead, Marie Antoinette), Thomas Poitevin, Dustin Muchuvitz, Raya Martigny.

Iair Said wrote and stars in his feature film directorial debut, Most People Die on Sundays (Los domingos mueren más personas), the Argentine comedy-drama film loosely based on his real-life experiences when his own father died.

IFC Films and Shudder debtued the official trailer for The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren), the Norwegian fairy tale horror from writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt that takes a sinister twist on the classic Cinderella story. Starring in the movie are Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, and Flo Fagerli,

Love Hotel, a pinku classic from Shinji Somai newly restored by the Nikkatsu Corporation will get its first-ever North American theatrical release, opening for an exclusive one-week theatrical run beginning Friday, April 4, at Metrograph In Theater in New York.

Alejandro Zuno, director of the hit Netflix series The Secret of the River, makes his feature directorial debut with Newborn (Un mundo para mí), the first known Mexican film to address intersexuality.

Sony Pictures Classics debuted the official trailer and release date for Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, the French romantic comedy starring Camille Rutherford (Anatomy of a Fall), Pablo Pauly (Three Nights a Week), Charlie Anson (Downton Abbey) and Annabelle Lengronne (Mother and Son).

Watermlon Pictures shared the official trailer The Teacher, Farah Nabulsi’s drama set (and filmed) in the present-day West Bank in the occupied Palestinian Territories, starring Saleh Bakri (The Band’s Visit) and Imogen Poots (The Father).