Breaking Glass Pictures will release Nostalgia, Italy’s official entry to the 95th Academy Awards and Cannes competition drama starring Pierfrancesco Favino (The Traitor) alongside Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi, and Sofia Essaidi.
Korean film master Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave leads the nominations for the 16th Asian Film Awards with ten nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. Coming in a close second is the Japanese film, Drive My Car which received eight nominations.
Music Box Films revealed the official trailer for Full Time (À plein temps), a French social thriller movie starring Laure Calamy as a single mother raising two children while working as head chambermaid in at a luxury hotel in Paris. Also starring in the film are Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Nolan Arizmendi and Sasha Lemaitre Cremaschi..
Magnet Releasing debuted the official trailer for Kompromat, the French thriller starring Gilles Lellouche, Joanna Kulig, Mikhaïl Gorevoï, Aleksey Gorbunov, Elisa Lasowski, Danila Vorobyev, Judith Henry, Igor Jijikine, Pierre Hancisse and Mikhail Safronov.
Cinema Tropical announced its annual list of Best Latin American Films of the Year, comprised of 25 Latin American titles from twelve different countries, plus five U.S. Latinx productions—all of them by female directors—that the New York-based organization has selected as the best of the year.
Janus Films revealed the official US trailer No Bears (خرس نیست), the Iranian drama directed by imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. The film which was secretly filmed in Iran, stars Panahi along with Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiyar Panjei, Mina Kavani, and Reza Heydari, and tells two parallel love stories in which the lovers struggle with hidden and unavoidable obstacles.
Greenwich Entertainment revealed the official trailer for The Man in the Basement, the French psychological thriller starring Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo as a French Jewish couple who sells their basement to a former teacher (François Cluzet), an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Also starring in the film are Jonathan Zaccaï, Victoria Eber, and Denise Chalem.
Ava DuVernay’a Array Releasing revealed the official trailer for Mars One (Marte Um), the family drama selected as Brazil’s official section for International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. In the film starring Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião and Cícero Lucas, a middle-class Black family in Brazil feels the strain of their new reality after a far-right politician takes power in Brazil.
Kino Lorber revealed the official trailer for The Super 8 Years (Les Années Super-8), the documentary featuring French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux sharing home videos shot by then-husband, Philippe, from 1972 to 1981 that feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.
Altered Innocence revealed the new U.S. trailer for Beautiful Beings, the award-winning coming-of-age drama and Iceland’s submission for the 95th Academy Awards. Starring in the film are Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Áskell Einar Pálmason, Viktor Benóný Benediktsson, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, Aníta Briem, Ísgerður Gunnarsdóttir, and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.
Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, the French courtroom drama selected as France’s submission for Best International Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards will be released in the U.S.
Super revealed the official trailer for The Quiet Girl, Ireland’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film, starring Catherine Clinch as Cáit, a withdrawn nine-year-old girl who blossoms when sent to live with relatives. Also starring in the film are Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh and Joan Sheehy.