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.
Neon released the official trailer for Petite Maman, the French drama from filmmaker Céline Sciamma about a young girl coping with the death of her grandmother by bonding with her mother. The film starring Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Stéphane Varupenne, Nina Meurisse and Margo Abascal had its world premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival.
Oscilloscope Laboratories debuted the official trailer for The Tale of King Crab (Re Granchio), the fiction feature debut from documentary filmmakers Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. The film starring Gabriele Silli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Ercole Colnago, and Bruno di Giovanni had its World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Grasshopper Film will release Los Conductos, the “oracular and kaleidoscopic” debut feature film from Colombian visual artist and director Camilo Restrepo. Winner of the Best First Feature Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, the Best Latin American Film Award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, and an official selection at numerous film festivals including New Directors/New Films, San Sebastian, Viennale, Jeonju, CPH:DOX, IndieLisboa, FICUNAM, and more, Los Conductos opens on Friday, April 29 at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City, before continuing on to other North American cities.
The French drama Gagarine (Gagarin), the feature film debut of Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh centers on 16-year-old Youri, a resourceful teenager in the midst of massive change when the only home he’s ever known is threatened with destruction
IFC Films debuted the official trailer for Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades), the French black-and-white drama film starring stars Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Jehnny Beth and Noémie Merlant as four young people who fall in and out of love (and sex) with each other while figuring out their lives in Paris.
A potent, observational exploration of female fortitude and solidarity, the Mexican documentary film La Mami, from Spanish-born director Laura Herrero Garvín (The Swirl) opens on Thursday, April 7 at Maysles Cinema in New York City, followed by other U.S. cities.
Magnolia Pictures released an official trailer for Anaïs in Love (Les amours d’Anaïs), the French romance comedy film directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. The film starring Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet, Xavier Guelfi, Christophe Montenez, Anne Canovas, and Bruno Todeschini, premiered in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes Film Festival.
Here is the official trailer for Vortex, the French drama film directed by Gaspar Noé about an elderly couple with advancing dementia.
Cinema Guild debuted the official trailer for The Girl and The Spider, the Swiss drama film from filmmaking brothers Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher that premiered at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival where the Zürchers won the award for Best Director.