Setting their market debut at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, Penguin Pictures and Fairpoint Films revealed that Lea Thompson (Back to the Future), Kevin Pollak (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Goodrich with Michael Keaton, Girl in the Pool), Leanne Melissa Bishop (The Weight of Perfection, Regression) and Aaron Ashmore (Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia, Sky Med and the upcoming A Case for the Winemaker) will star in their newest feature film, the family drama titled ‘What If’.
First announced at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival under the title ‘The Hanged,’ the crime/thriller film by Fernando Coimbra is finally making its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. under the new title, ‘Carnival Is Over.’ The film stars Leandra Leal and Irandhir Santos as a couple trying to break free of their family’s link to the mafia.
Based on the incredible true story of amateur filmmaker and self-made auteur Nasir Sahikh (Yeh Hai Malegaon Ka Superman) ‘Superboys of Malegaon’ follows of an endearing group of friends who pursue their extraordinary dreams.. Directed by Reema Kagti (Talaash: The Answer Lies Within), the comedy drama film is an uplifting story on friendship and the love of cinema.
Isotre Films unveiled the first look teaser trailer and image for ‘Stomach It,’ the psychological horror film from director Peter Klausner (Closing). The film stars Jon Lee Richardson (Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F) as a crime scene cleaner struggling to stay sane in his unconventional job.
Oscar-nominated director of ‘Hale County This Morning, This Evening’ RaMell Moss is making his narrative feature directorial debut with ‘Nickel Boys’, an ambitious drama set in the 1962 Jim Crow era. Based on the 2019 Pulitzer-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, the film tells the story of two teenagers trying to survive in an abusive segregated reform school in Talahasee, Florida. The film is shot almost entirely in first-person perspective.
Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’ which world premiered earlier this year at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, explores the early years of Trump’s business career including his relationship with lawyer Roy Cohn and his first wife Ivana.
Returning after 2018’s ‘Peterloo’, seven-time nominated Academy Awards writer/director Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies, Naked) comes with ‘Hard Truths’, the drama film following a woman (played by longtime collaborator Marieanne Jean-Baptise) struggling with anger issues and her easygoing younger sister (played by longtime collaborator Michele Austin) navigating their dramatic family life.
Fresh of its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, here is a first look clip from ‘Queer’, the new romance drama film by Luca Guadagnino, the acclaimed Oscar-nominated director of ‘Call Me by Your Name’.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Laura Piani’s Jane Austen Wrecked My Life which is set to World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 9th.
Canada has selected Matthew Rankin’s absurdist comedy film ‘Universal Language‘ as the country’s official entry for the Best International Feature at the 97th annual Academy Awards.
An homage to old film-noir, ‘The Universal Theory‘ tells a sci-fi story with a classic presentation. The film follows a talented young physicist as he tries to uncover the mystery surrounding a series of mysterious deaths in the Swiss Alps, told in a classic Hitchcockian film-noir style by director Timm Kröger (The Council of Birds).
Under the threat of a global crisis, seven world leaders meet at the G7 summit to discuss a joint statement regarding the crisis in the surreal black comedy film, ‘Rumours’. The film is co-directed by frequent collaborators of celebrated Canadian director Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson.