In Asia, the debut narrative feature from director Ruthy Pribar world premiering at the down-sized 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, Shira Haas, star of the Netflix series Shtisel and Unorthodox, plays 17-year-old Vika, daughter of single mother Asia played by Alena Yiv. Vika’s deteriorating health urges Asia to finally find her voice as a mother and to embrace and cherish their time together.
IFC Films will release Babyteeth, the powerful, coming-of-age feature debut from Shannon Murphy (“Killing Eve” Season 3) on June 19 in theaters and on demand.
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.
Braking For Whales, the feature film debut from writer/director Sean McEwen (“The Dougherty Gang”) will be released by Gravitas Ventures on all VOD/Digital & DVD platforms on April 24th, 2020.
The new trailer debuted today for the dark comedy Tammy’s Always Dying starring Felicity Huffman, Anastasia Phillips, Lauren Holly. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last Fall and was planning a limited theatrical release, but will now make a wide digital release – streaming online everywhere on May 1.
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.
IFC Films will release Tesla, directed and written by award-winning filmmaker Michael Almereyda (Marjorie Prime Experimenter, Hamlet) and starring Ethan Hawk. Four-time Academy-Award® nominee and frequent IFC Films collaborator, Ethan Hawke (Boyhood, Blaze) stars in the title role as Nikola Tesla, with Eve Hewson (Behind Her Eyes, The Knick), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet), Jim Gaffigan (The Jim Gaffigan Show, Drunk Parents), Donnie Keshawarz (The Wolf of Wall Street, The Adjustment Bureau), Rebecca Dayan (Celeste & Jesse Forever, H.), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade, Blaze), and Lucy Walters (Jett, Power) to round out the cast.
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain is a new film from David Midell that was set to make its Mississippi Premiere at the Oxford Film Festival, before the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
IFC Films will release The Rental, Dave Franco’s chilling thriller co-written by Franco and Joe Swanberg day-and-date on July 24th. The film stars Alison Brie (Glow, Horse Girl, Promising Young Woman), Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Call of the Wild), Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) and Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Snowpiercer).
The searing, insightful LGBTQ drama 15 Years from writer/director Yuval Hadadi will be released on DVD/VOD on April 28. The film which world premiered at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival as the Opening Night film, and went on to have a healthy festival life, won the Jury Award for Best Feature Film at Reeling 2019 – the 37th Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival.
Breaking Glass Pictures will release Lynchian southern gothic thriller Union Bridge, the debut feature from writer/director Brian Levin. The film is scheduled to open in Los Angeles on May 15, and arrive on DVD & VOD platforms May 19.
