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).
Opening in US cinemas this month, here is the official trailer for Julie Keeps Quiet, the drama starring Tessa Van den Broeck, Ruth Becquart, Ken De Bouw, Claire Bodson, and Laurent Caron. It was chosen as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Cinema Guild has revealed the official trailer for You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas), the ‘reverie on love and mortality’ from Argentinian filmmaker Matías Piñeiro.
Set amid the early COVID pandemic lockdown in January 2020, in An Unfinished Film, filmmaker Lou Ye (Suzhou River) and his film crew reunite near Wuhan, China to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier.
Co-directed by documentarian Eryk Rocha and first-time director Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, the immersive Brazilian documentary The Falling Sky (A Queda do Céu), will be released in the US via KimStim.
Amazon MGM Studios unveiled the new theatrical trailer for Superboys of Malegaon, the biopic drama film chronicles the life of Nasir Shaikh, an amateur filmmaker who, along with his friends, revitalizes the town of Malegaon, a small town in Maharashtra, by transforming it into a hub of filmmaking passion.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the contemporary Saudi-language thriller Unidentified directed by Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda, The Perfect Candidate), and starring Mila Al Zahrani (The Perfect Candidate, The Cello) along with Shafi Al Harthi (A Woman’s Life).
Rob Tregenza’s The Fishing Place will have its North American theatrical premiere at MoMA in New York City on February 6, and will open at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles on March 7th. Other cities will follow. Director Rob Tregenza in person on February 6 after the 6:30pm screening at MoMA.
