GKIDS will release Goodbye, Don Glees!, the Japanese anime film from writer/director Atsuko Ishizuka, who previously directed the series A Place Further Than The Universe. The film follows the story of three friends over the course of one summer, as their backyard adventures turn one small incident to a life changing journey.
Sony Pictures Classics will release Return to Seoul written and directed by Davy Chou, previously titled as All the People I’ll Never Be, an official selection of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
IFC Films will release R.M.N., the new film from award winning writer, director and producer Cristian Mungiu, set to world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. This marks the fifth time IFC Films will release a film by Mungiu.
Filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli (Baahubali 1 & 2, Eega)’s epic action drama, RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt), will get a “last chance” theatrical re-release in select theaters across the US for one night only on Wednesday, June 1st.
Neon debuted the official trailer for A Chiara, the Italian coming-of-age drama starring Swamy Rotolo, Claudio Rotolo, Grecia Rotolo, and Carmela Fumo that world premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The film went on to screen at multiple prestigious film festivals including its North American premiere at the 2021 New York Film Festival and the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Described as the “slyly meta-cinematic experiment,” The Tsugua Diaries (Diários de Otsoga) by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Arabian Nights) and his partner and collaborator Maureen Fazendeiro is set to open on Friday, May 27 at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City before moving onto other cinemas nationwide via distributor KimStim. Starring in the film are Crista Alfaiate, Carloto Cotta, and João Nunes Monteiro.
Written and directed by Saim Sadiq, Joyland will be the first Pakistani feature ever to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Joyland will compete in the Official Selection’s Un Certain Regard and will also vie for the Caméra d’Or.
Altered Innocence debuted the official trailer for After Blue (Dirty Paradise), Bertrand Mandico’s award-winning queer sci-fi fantasy starring Elina Löwensohn (Knife+Heart, Let the Corpses Tan, Nadja, Schindler’s List, Simple Men), Vimala Pons (Elle), Agata Buzek (Redemption), and Paula Luna.
The White Fortress stars Pavle Čemerkić as Faruk, an orphan who meets a timid teen girl, played by Sumeja Dardagan, from an affluent family; the two form a relationship as she explores his life of foraging and petty crime as a means of escaping her toxic home life. The cast also includes Jasmin Geljo, Kerim Čutuna, Alban Ukaj and Irena Mulamuhić.
Here is the new official trailer for Lux Æterna, Gaspar Noé’s “stylistically daring” film with a “metafictional twist” starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle playing a fictional version of themselves making a film about witches. Also starring in the film are Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull and Félix Maritaud.
Dekanalog will release Father, the Serbian film directed by Srdan Golubović, in select U.S. cinemas, beginning Friday, April 15th. The Berlinale Panorama Audience Award winner opens at NYC’s New Plaza on the 15th and LA’s Laemmle Royal the following week. An expanded national rollout will follow.
