Writer-director Shariff Nasr’s intimate exploration of a man who comes out to his family, El Houb will follow up its festival run with a national release this Spring. El Houb will open in theaters on March 31 and be available on DVD and Digital on April 4 from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment.
Oscilloscope Laboratories shared the official trailer for Joyland, the award-winning queer drama selected as Official Pakistani Entry for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards. Starring in the film are Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani, Sohail Sameer, Salmaan Peerzada, and Sania Saeed
Dark Star Pictures debuted the official trailer for Punch, the sports drama film starring Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, and Conan Hayes.
Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s Sundance award-winning documentary The Stroll will open and its Hannes Hirsch’s debut feature Drifter will close the 37th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 15th – 26th, 2023. In addition, Tünde Skovrán’s intimate documentary Who I Am Not will have its UK Premiere as the Centrepiece Presentation Screening.
GLAAD announced the nominees for the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, with films Bodies Bodies Bodies, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Spoiler Alert and Tár among the nominees for Outstanding Film.
Dark Sky Pictures revealed the official trailer for The First Fallen, the LGBTQ drama about the start of the AIDS epidemic in 80s Brazil, starring Johnny Massaro, Renata Carvalho and Clara Choveaux.
Dark Star Pictures unveiled the official trailer for Spanish director Ruth Caudeli’s Petit Mal which opens in theaters on January 27, 2023.
Ava DuVernay’a Array Releasing revealed the official trailer for Mars One (Marte Um), the family drama selected as Brazil’s official section for International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. In the film starring Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião and Cícero Lucas, a middle-class Black family in Brazil feels the strain of their new reality after a far-right politician takes power in Brazil.
Strand Releasing revealed the official trailer for In from the Side, a gay romantic drama set in the world of British rugby. Alex Lincoln and Alexander King star as rugby players who unwittingly embark on a romantic affair they struggle to hide from their partners and teammates..
Kino Lorber unveiled the official trailer for Framing Agnes, the award winning documentary on transgender histories. In the film, a cast of transgender actors including Angelica Ross, Zackary Drucker, Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard and Stephen Ira reenact various case studies from Harold Garfinkel’s work with transgender clients at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The 34th NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival announced the winners of the juried awards, with top honors going to director Carter Smith for Swallowed (Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature), director Maryam Touzani for The Blue Caftan (Grand Jury Prize, International Feature), director Juliana Curi for Uyra – The Rising Forest (Grand Jury Prize, Documentary Feature), as well as director Nyala Moon for How Not to Date While Trans (Grand Jury Prize, New York Short).
