Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider has been selected as Denmark’s contender in the International Feature Film category for the 2023 Academy Awards. The film world premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress award for her performance.
The official trailer is here for Memories of My Father, previously titled “Forgotten We’ll Be (El olvido que seremos)”, the drama selected as the Colombian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. The film starring Javier Cámara, Nicolás Reyes Cano, Juan Pablo Urrego, Patricia Tamayo, Maria Tereza Barreto, and Laura Londoño, is based on the true story of Héctor Abad Gómez, a Colombian university professor who fought against oppression and social equality, and the circumstances of his death by Colombian paramilitaries.
A mother may lose custody of her son because she refuses to medicate his ADHD, in the Mexican drama The Other Tom from filmmakers Rodrigo Plá and Laura Santullo.
Magnet Releasing released the official trailer for Piggy, the Spanish horror film by Carlota Pereda that premiered at 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Piggy is the feature length adaptation of Carlota Pereda’s short film of the same name, and stars Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi, Irene Ferreiro along with Camielle Aguilar, with the special collaborations of Pilar Castro and Claudia Salas
Brainstorm Media revealed the official trailer for Some Like It Rare, the French dark-comedy horror film starring Fabrice Éboué, Marina Foïs, Jean-Francois Cayrey, Lisa Do Couto Texeira, Victor Meutelet, Stephane Soo Mongo, Virginie Hocq and Christophe Hondelatte.
Dark Star Pictures will release Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, the award winning drama based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda, the legendary Japanese soldier who spent 30 years in the Philippine jungle, refusing to surrender because he was convinced World War II had not ended. The film stars Endō Yūya, Tsuda Kanji, Matsuura Yūya, and Chiba Tetsuya.
The Iranian thriller World War III directed by Houman Seyyedi has been selected as Iran’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
José Calcina stars in Utama as Virginio, and Luisa Quispe as his wife Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple, living the same daily routine in the Bolivian highlands, when a long drought threatens their entire way of life.
Dark Star Pictures revealed the official trailer Phantom Project, the Chilean comedy starring Juan Cano, Fernando Castillo, Violeta Castillo, Ingrid Isensee, Paloma Larrain, Fernanda Toledo.
Mubi revealed the official trailer for Decision to Leave, the seductive romantic thriller starring Tang Wei (Lust, Caution) and Park Hae-il (The Host) selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Big World Pictures will release Taming the Garden, the Georgian documentary of how a powerful man indulges in an unusual hobby by having century-old trees uprooted in communities along the Georgian coast and transplanted to his private garden.
India broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar, is the subject of Vinay Shukla’s newsroom documentary While We Watched, world premiering at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.