With filmmaker Michael Moore on board as Executive Producer, the award-winning documentary From Ground Zero opened in theaters nationwide on Friday, January 3rd, 2025.
Foreign Language Films
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Where Can I Watch the Palestinian Documentary ‘From Ground Zero’?
Hell’s Heaven by Karim Satoum in From Ground Zero
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Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s French Queer Thriller ‘Eat the Night’ Opens in US Cinemas | Trailer
Eat the Night (Altered Innocence) Altered Innocence debuted the US theatrical trailer for Eat the Night, the French thriller film from filmmaking duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.
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‘Vermiglio’ Trailer – Martina Scrinzi, Tommaso Ragno Star in Maura Delpero’s Golden Globe-Nominated Italian Period Drama
Vermiglio (Cinedora) Selected as Italy’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards, Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio is a period drama set in a remote Italian mountain village in 1944. The film tells the story of a family whose lives are altered by the arrival of a soldier who has deserted the war.
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‘Los Frikis’ Trailer – Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson’s Cuban Coming-of-Age Drama Film Opens in US Theaters
Los Frikis From Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, the directors of 2019’s Peanut Butter Falcon, Los Frikis is a coming-of-age drama set in 1990s Cuba. Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of teenagers who injected themselves with HIV to escape the country’s economic crisis by entering government-run sanatoriums.
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‘Rose’ Trailer – Aging Widow Redefines Herself in Aurélie Saada’s Sweet Drama Film
Rose directed by Aurélie Saada (Cohen Media Group) Originally making its world-premiere at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival, Aurélie Saada’s debut feature film Rose won the festival’s Variety Piazza Grande Award. The film follows an elderly widow as she tries to discover herself after her husband’s death with the help of her children.
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Movies in Theaters on Friday December 6 – The Return, The Order, Unstoppable, Y2K, Nightbitch, The End and More
Kicking off December, a vast selection of movies is hitting theaters. Steffen Haars and Nick Frost’s family-thriller-comedy Get Away follows a family vacation in Sweden gone wrong. Amy Adams turns into a canine in Nightbitch. Justin Kurzel brings action to theaters with The Order starring Jude Law while Kyle Mooney brings back the early 2000s with Y2K. Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera’s You Are Not Me turns family drama into horror. Jharrel Jerome is one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles in Unstoppable. Christmas trip turns into heartbreak in H. Nelson Tracey’s drama Breakup Season. Shea Whigham and Carrie Coon attempt to escape mobsters in Lake George. Magnus von Horn’s period drama captures post-WW1 Copenhagen in The Girl With the Needle. Lillah Halla’s Power Alley follows a teenage volleyball player and her struggle for women’s rights in Brazil. Ralph Fiennes is Odysseus in Uberto Pasolini’s The Return. Joshua Oppenheimer’s apocalyptic musical The End stars Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, and documentary Sabbath Queen follows the story of a gay rabbi.
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Fang Li’s ‘The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru’ WWII Documentary + China’s Oscar Entry Begins Theatrical Run | Trailer
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru by Fang Li (screenshot) Following its North American premiere at the Asian World Film Festival, Fang Li’s feature documentary The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru opened for an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run in U.S. theaters. The film chronicles the search for the wreckage of the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese freighter carrying British POWs that was unknowingly torpedoed by a U.S. submarine in 1942.
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‘Sujo’ Trailer – Orphaned Son of Cartel Sicario Struggles after Father’s Death in Mexico’s Oscars Submission
Sujo by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez (screenshot / The Forge) Chosen to represent Mexico in the 2025 Academy Awards Best International Feature category, Sujo is a coming-of-age film telling the journey of the son of a cartel gunman trying to find his identity after his father’s passing.
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‘From Ground Zero’ Trailer – 22 Palestinian Filmmakers Capture their Lives in Gaza in Revealing Anthology Film
From Ground Zero – Sorry Cinema, Ahmed Hassouna (Watermelon Pictures) Selected as the official entry for Palestine for the 2025 Academy Awards Best International Feature category, Above Ground Zero is an anthology film made by 22 Palestinian filmmakers telling the story of their homeland and its people during the Israel-Gaza war.
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Dekanalog Acquires Laurynas Bareiša’s ‘Drowning Dry’ Lithuania’s Oscar Submission, for 2025 Release
Drowning Dry (Dekanalog) Dekanalog has acquired Drowning Dry (Sesės), the sophomore feature film by Lithuanian filmmaker Laurynas Bareiša selected as Lithuania’s official entry in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards. The haunting family drama celebrated its world premiere at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where the film won the Best Director prize for Bareiša, and the Best Performance Award was shared by its ensemble cast.
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‘Parthenope’ Trailer – Gary Oldman and Celeste Dalla Porta Star in Paolo Sorrentino’s Naples Drama
Parthenope (screenshot / A24) Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty, The Hand of God) returns with Parthenope, a coming-of-age drama exploring the love life of a young woman set against the picturesque backdrop of Naples. The film premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and also screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the 38th AFI Fest.
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Movies Released on Friday November 15 – From Cannes Winner ‘All We Imagine as Light’ to Documentary ‘Elton John: Never Too Late’
Movies opening in theaters this weekend include the Cannes Grand Prix-winning Indian film All We Imagine as Light, directed by Payal Kapadia and filmmaking duo Kalman & Horn bring an absurdist ’90s cable TV style to their new film, Dream Team, which follows the journey of two Interpol agents.