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.
Foreign Language Films
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Legal Thriller THE COLLINI CASE Based on the International Bestseller Drops Trailer + Release Date
The Collini Case
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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.
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Belgian/Guatemalan Film OUR MOTHERS Gets a Virtual Theatrical Release
Our Mothers (Nuestras madres) Outsider Pictures will release Our Mothers (Nuestras madres), the debut feature by director César Díaz, virtually beginning May 1st, 2020.
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Russian Sci-Fi Film SPUTNIK Originally Set for Tribeca Fest Now Lands in US in August
Sputnik IFC Midnight will release Egor Abramenko’s directorial debut Sputnik based on his short film The Passenger which played in the 2017 Fantastic Film Festival in Austin. Sputnik was set to have its world premiere in the Midnight Section at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. IFC Midnight will release the film on August 14th, 2020.
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Italian LGBTQ Comedy-Drama FAIRYTALE Comes to America on DVD/VOD in May
Italian LGBTQ Comedy-Drama FAIRYTALE starring Filippo TImi Breaking Glass Pictures will release the Italian LGBTQ comedy-drama Fairytale on DVD/VOD on May 12. Fairytale (Favola) follows Mrs. Fairytale, a perfect housewife in 1950s America who becomes aware of her own unhappiness and embarks on a process of personal liberation. Amongst stuffed poodles, whiskey-infused teas, sinful mambo lessons, and threats of alien invasion, Mr(s). Fairytale will begin to explore a world where anyone can finally be who they want to be, but behind which hides another upsetting reality.
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Mexican Film Wins Films Progress 37 Toulouse Awards + San Sebastian Festival Exits as Partner
“50 o Dos Ballenas se Encuentran en la Playa” directed by Jorge Cuchí The Mexican production “50 o Dos Ballenas se Encuentran en la Playa” directed by Jorge Cuchí was awarded the Films in Progress Toulouse Award and the Special Ciné+ in Progress Award at the 2020 Films in Progress Toulouse organized by the San Sebastian Festival and Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse.
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Italian VR Film VAJONT Selected for 77th Venice International Film Festival
VAJONT The Italian Virtual Reality film Vajont from director Iolanda Di Bonaventura and producer Saverio Trapasso was selected at the close of the fourth edition of the Biennale College Cinema – VR to receive support from La Biennale to cover its production costs.
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Nordic Thriller A WHITE, WHITE DAY to Premiere on Film Movement’s Virtual Cinema
With more than 200+ theaters across North America supporting it’s new Virtual Cinema, Film Movement will offer its very first US theatrical premiere this April with A White, White Day, a thriller that was Iceland’s Official Oscar Submission.
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Cinema Tropical Launches Digital Platform with AWAY FROM MEANING
Away from Meaning (Lejos del sentido) Cinema Tropical launched The Cinema Tropical Collection, a new initiative that makes select Latin American films available digitally.
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African Documentary MAKONGO Wins at Cinéma du réel
Makongo by Elvis Sabin Ngaibino The debut documentary film Makongo by Elvis Sabin Ngaibino (Central African Republic / Argentina / Italy), which participated in the Final Cut in Venice workshop at the Venice International Film Festival 2019, won the Prix International de la Scam (the second award of the Festival) at the 42nd Cinéma du réel in Paris. The Festival was cancelled because of the current health emergency, but the Jury decided to view the selected films online anyway, and to award the prizes.
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Kino Marquee Expands to 150 Virtual Theaters to Screen BACURAU, Cannes-Winning Brazilian Thriller
Bacurau directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles Kino Lorber’s virtual theatrical exhibition initiative called Kino Marquee has now expanded to 150 arthouse theaters to screen Cannes-prize winning Brazilian thriller Bacurau. Alamo Drafthouse and Laemmle Theaters have just signed on to screen through many of their locations.