
Greenwich Entertainment acquired the 2022 Jerusalem Film Festival Audience Award Winner Karaoke, written and directed by Moshe Rosenthal.

Greenwich Entertainment acquired the 2022 Jerusalem Film Festival Audience Award Winner Karaoke, written and directed by Moshe Rosenthal.

Cinema Guild will release the Mexican film Dos Estaciones, winner of the World Dramatic Special Jury Prize: Acting at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Screenwriting at Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

Here is the official trailer for Squeal, Aik Karapetian’s dark fairy tale, set to open in the US theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, with more cities to be announced, and on VOD in the US and Canada on August 19.

Dark Star Pictures released the official trailer for Henrika Kull’s Bliss (Glück), an unconventional LGBTQ love story set in the world of sex workers. Katharina Behrens, Ian Hansen, and Maria Mägdefrau star in this beautiful romantic drama out of Germany.

Kino Lorber will release Private Desert (Deserto Particular), the latest feature from Brazilian director Aly Muritiba (Rust, To My Beloved). Described as “a triumphant affirmation of queer love”, the drama opens Friday, August 26 at the Quad Cinema in New York City and on Friday, September 9 at the Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles, followed by other select cities nationwide.

Filmmaker Aik Karapetian’s dark fairy tale Squeal (previously titled Samuel’s Travels (Sema Celojumi)) stars Kevin Janssens, Laura Siliņa, Aigars Vilims, Normunds Griestiņš, Juris Bartkevičs, and Guntis Pilsums.

Well Go USA released the official trailer for Emergency Declaration, the South Korean action drama starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Nam-gil, Kim So-jin, and Park Hae-joon that premiered at Cannes Film Festival. In the film, an aircraft is forced to declare an emergency when a terrorist attack occurs mid-flight.

Dekanalog will release Chloé Mazlo’s Skies of Lebanon (Sous le ciel d’Alice) in select U.S. cinemas, beginning on Friday, July 22nd.

El Gran Movimiento (The Great Movement), the critically-acclaimed second feature film by Bolivian director Kiro Russo (Dark Skull) is set to open on Friday, August 12 at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City, followed by Los Angeles, before moving onto other cinemas nationwide.

Chan Tze Woon’s award-winning hybrid-documentary Blue Island on Hong Kong’s protest movement opens for a one-week theatrical engagement at Metrograph, beginning Friday, July 29, 2022.

Music Box Films released the official trailer for Medusa, the Brazilian ‘genre-hopping’ film from writer-director Anita Rocha da Silveira, and considered a follow-up to her 2015 film Kill Me Please. In the film, a gang of young women in Brazil try to control everything around them, including other women.

Written and directed by Christophe Cognet, the documentary From Where They Stood (À pas aveugles) will be released in theaters beginning July 15, 2022 at NYC’s Film Forum followed by additional major US & Canadian cites.