Gravitas Ventures released the official trailer for Sweetness in the Belly directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari and starring Dakota Fanning, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Kunal Nayyar, and Wunmi Mosaku. The film adapted from Canadian author Camilla Gibb’s award-winning novel of the same name premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Sweetness in the Belly will be released on VOD on May 8th.
Radioactive directed by Marjane Satrapi (“Persepolis”) is a journey through Marie Curie’s (played by Rosamund Pike) enduring legacy from the 1870s through to modern day – her passionate partnerships, scientific breakthroughs, and the consequences that followed. The film will be released on Amazon Prime on July 24, 2020.
The indie feature film Long Gone By, directed by Andrew Morgan and starring Erica Muñoz will air on HBO Latino linear channel at 8pm, Friday May 1, 2020.
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.
IFC Midnight will release writer/director Natalie Erika James’ feature debut Relic starring Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Robyn Nevin that world premiered at Sundance Film Festival. The film, hailed as “a fresh and terrifying twist on the notorious haunted-house tale” will be released on July 10, 2020 in theaters and on demand / digital rental.
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.
