Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing is releasing the New Zealand box-office hit Cousins directed by award-winning Māori filmmaking duo Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith. The film debuted theatrically in NYC on July 2nd, and premieres worldwide on Netflix on July 22nd.
The Macaluso Sisters, Italian writer-director Emma Dante’s moving adaptation of her award-winning play of the same name, will open on Friday, August 6 exclusively at New York’s Film Forum and in select theaters nationwide throughout August.
White as Snow, the French dark comedy film by Anne Fontaine starring Lou de Laâge and Isabelle Huppert, opens in theaters on August 13, 2021. Damien Bonnard, Vincent Macaigne, Benoît Poelvoorde, and Charles Berling also star in the film which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
The acclaimed Tunisian horror thriller Dachra directed by Abdelhamid Bouchnak opens in U.S. cinemas on Friday, July 9th, 2021. Described as grisly, frightening, and stuffed with howling thrills, the horror film stars stars Yasmine Dimassi, Aziz Jbali, Bilel Slatnia, Hela Ayed, Hedi Majri, Rahri Rahali.
Variance Films will release Scales, the debut feature film by Saudi Arabian writer/director Shahad Ameen that premiered at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, where it won the Verona Film Club Award.
The french period romance drama Casanova, Last Love, a film by Benoît Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen, Diary of a Chambermaid) based on Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th-century Italian adventurer, opens July 14 at the Quad Cinema in New York City.
Following an opening weekend June 18 in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, François Ozon’s Summer of 85 expands to additional cities on Friday, June 25.
The Brazilian award-winning drama film Half Brother (Meio Irmão) written and directed by first-time filmmaker Eliane Costar will be released on June 15 by Breaking Glass Pictures.
The clever French crime caper Mama Weed, directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Isabelle Huppert will open in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and in many other US cities on July 16th. VOD release will follow on July 23rd.
The Oscar-nominated animated short Genius Loci, along with César Award winners And Then the Bear and So What if the Goats Die? are among the lineup for New French Shorts 2021, the annual showcase of the new cinematic gems in short form from France.
Cathy Yan’s feature film debut, Dead Pigs, winner of Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting at Sundance Film Festival opens via Metrograph’s virtual cinema on May 13, then nationally on May 28.
MUBI released the trailer for the drama film Sweat, billed as “a shocking glimpse beneath the candy-colored surface of internet celebrity,” set to open in select theaters on June 18. The breakout second feature from writer-director Magnus von Horn, Sweat was an official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Told with the pulse-pounding intensity of a thriller, this riveting drama exposes the real-life repercussions of our digital culture.