Durga Chew-Bose’s directorial debut, Bonjour Tristesse, is a reimagining of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel, set against the sun-drenched backdrop of the French Riviera. The coming of age romantic drama film stars Lily McInerny as Cécile, a teenager navigating a summer of emotional upheaval, with Claes Bang portraying her charismatic father, along with Nailia Harzoune – his new girlfriend, and Chloë Sevigny as Anne, a fashion designer whose arrival disrupts their idyllic retreat.
Fresh off the NYC premiere at New Directors/New Films, Dekanalog revealed the new trailer and release date for Drowning Dry (Sesės), the family drama film from Lithuanian filmmaker Laurynas Bareiša, co-produced by Academy Award-winner Matiss Kaza (Flow). The film was Lithuania’s entry in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.
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.