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Shine Your Eyes, the richly textured feature fiction debut of Brazilian filmmaker Matias Mariani, will launch worldwide of Netflix on July 29th.
Foreign Language Films
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‘Shine Your Eyes’ Launches Globally on Netflix July 29
OC Ukeye (as Amadi) in Shine Your Eyes, directed by Matias Mariani.
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Atom Egoyan’s Thriller GUEST OF HONOUR Opens July 10
David Thewlis in a scene from Guest of Honour, courtesy Kino Lorber The new film, Guest of Honour by Academy Award-nominated director and writer Atom Egoyan opens Friday, July 10 in Kino Marquee virtual cinemas supporting independent theaters. Guest of Honour starring David Thewlis (Naked), Laysla De Oliveira, Rossif Sutherland along with Luke Wilson was an official selection of Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and BFI London Film Festival.
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IFC Acquires HATCHING, Finnish Twisted Body Horror Meets Psychological Drama
Hatching directed by Hanna Bergholm Hatching directed by first time Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm is being acquired by IFC Midnight for release in the US. Hatching explores themes of control and keeping up appearances in a twisted coming-of-age body horror meets psychological drama, with a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi. The film stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin and Oiva Ollila.
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Based on a Real-Life Honor Killing, A REGULAR WOMAN Debuts on Virtual Cinema on June 26
Sherry Hormann’s A Regular Woman Based on a contentious, real-life “honor killing” in 2005 that shocked Germany, Sherry Hormann’s A Regular Woman, which had its World Premiere at Tribeca in 2019, offers a novel and captivating approach: the murdered woman, a 23-year-old German of Turkish-Kurdish ancestry shot point blank by her youngest brother, narrates the action both before and after her death. A Regular Woman makes its virtual cinema premiere on June 26th from Corinth Films.
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Tribeca Winning South Korean Drama HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Gets June 26th Release
House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) (South Korea, USA) directed and written by Bora Kim. The South Korean coming-of-age drama House of Hummingbird directed by Bora Kim which won the award for Best International Narrative Feature at Tribeca Film Festival will open nationwide in Virtual Cinemas on Friday June 26. The film will open in NYC at Film at Lincoln Center; and in LA at Laemmle Theatres and CGV Cinemas.
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French LGBT Rights Mini-Series PROUD Opens Virtually on June 19
PROUD directed by Philippe Faucon Philippe Faucon, Cesar Award-winning director of Fatima, directs Proud, the three-part episodic on a French family spanning generations…each episode focusing on a crucial moment for LGBTQ rights. Starring Stanislas Nordey, Samuel Theis, Frédéric Pierrot, Chiara Mastroianni, Proud opens in virtual cinema starting Friday June 19, in select cities though Kino Marquee.
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Miami Film Festival to Present Online Delayed World Premiere of A Mother (Una madre) by Diógenes Cuevas
A Mother (Una madre) directed by Diógenes Cuevas Miami Film Festival will world premiere online A Mother (Una madre), directed by emerging Colombian filmmaker Diógenes Cuevas, after the Festival’s intended world premiere at its 37th edition in March was cancelled due to a mid-festival termination caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hola Mexico Film Festival Launches Virtual Theater Online Film Series
Oso Polar directed by Marcelo Tobar Hola Mexico Film Festival which has been postponed until September 2020, wants to help give viewers a chance to see some of the best films that have come out of Mexico in recent years with the launch of the Hola Mexico Virtual Theater online film series starting May 21.
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Legal Thriller THE COLLINI CASE Based on the International Bestseller Drops Trailer + Release Date
The Collini Case The gripping thriller The Collini Case follows a young lawyer who stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case. Directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner (Summer Storm), the award-winning drama will be released on June 5, 2020.
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Curaçao IFFR 2020 Canceled, Fest to Screen Past Winners Online
Tierra adentro Due to covid-19 pandemic, the 9th edition of Curaçao IFFR (CIFFR), scheduled for April 21 to 26 2020 in Willemstad, Curaçao, has been cancelled. To continue to offer visibility to filmmakers from the Caribbean region, IFFR has made six previous winners of the Yellow Robin Award available to watch online in Curaçao and the Benelux until May 12 2020.
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Film at Lincoln Center Announced Lineup for Spring 2020 Virtual Cinema
Someone, Somewhere / Deux moi by Cédric Klapisch Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) announced the upcoming FLC Virtual Cinema lineup for the 2020 spring season. FLC’s new releases include Albert Serra’s provocative period piece Liberté, a NYFF57 selection; a new 2K restoration of Italian master Nanni Moretti’s beloved semi-autobiographical Caro Diario, winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival; Hlynur Pálmason’s superb Nordic psychological thriller A White, White Day; and three standouts from this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival: Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin, a rollicking, absurdist, and lightly surrealist take on the midlife crisis movie starring Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Adèle Haenel (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), Christophe Honoré’s On a Magical Night, which earned Chiara Mastroianni Best Actress award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section for her fierce performance, and Cédric Klapisch’s almost-romance Someone, Somewhere.
